• octoperson@sh.itjust.works
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    Down to prohibition. For a time you couldn’t legally sell alcohol so apple juice was sold under the name cider. Sometimes with handy instructions on how not to store it to avoid it fermenting into alcohol. Then, by the time restrictions were lifted, cider just meant apple juice as far as America was concerned.

    (Allegedly)

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        1 year ago

        Huh, how is that connected? I don’t remember that in high school history.

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          How do you think bootleg whiskey got from a backwoods still in Porksister, West Virginia to a speakeasy on the North side of Chicago? Some good ol’ boys loaded it up in a souped up Model A that looked outwardly like any other ordinary car, but was capable of outrunning the cops for hundreds of miles on end. Some of these bootleggers got so into building and driving these cars that they made their own sport of it: long distance, high speed endurance racing of ordinary factory built automobiles, or “stock cars.” They even organized a league called the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. NASCAR for short.

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      Ot can’t have been very strong. You need yeast really to make it formant, and I can’t imagine that that was present in the drink.

      I used to have a mate that would do this sort of thing, but he also used to argue that if you let cheese go mouldy it’s blue cheese. So I never really used to taste his products.

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        Step 1 - Do not contaminate with yeast.

        Also mouldy cheese is not blue cheese, your friend is a heathen. That said, blue cheese is mouldy but it’s a specific type of mould that isn’t harmful when eaten.