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Europe's heaviest drinkers: Where is drinking getting worse? (www.euronews.com)

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[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Humans have used alcohol for literally thousands of years. It was called the water of life.

That said I can imagine some nosy teetotalers existing even in ancient Babylon or Atlantis for that matter.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

They've found clay tablets from ancient Sumeria with odes to beer, which they drank out of tall pottery with a spherical bottom and a narrow neck, like a huge bottle. The beer was unfiltered with a LOT of barley sediment, they drank it out of long hollow plant stems, like straws.