[nottorp]

> And I’m quite sure they were doing a lot of that back in that time.

Technically, they were all drinking alcohol because water was unsafe. However, beer at least had half the alcohol content that it has today and the wine was strongly watered. For women and children they even added water to the beer.

Googled it once. The information should still be available.

[williamdclt]

Funnily, there was a HN thread a day or two ago that was calling _that_ a myth

[naikrovek]

everyone on this site thinks they're an expert after reading an article or three. this site is kinda insane that way.

almost no one here is willing to admit, in the heat of a discussion, that they don't know everything about the topic at hand, and it is maddening.