A Booze Thread, Part 1: Vodka
Coldwarrior calls for Happy Hour, the bar is open.
Submitted for 23 JAN 2010
Well, its been quite a week. Its now Senator Brown (R, MA), Mumia is going to fry, Air America is out of business, McCain/Feingold is gutted, and Hellcare has been dealt a serious blow. So, yours truly would like to take a victory lap and talk about something a little less serious, ‘booze’, as Frank would say.
So, put on some Sand’s era Rat Pack, mix a drink, and kick back and have a read.
Vodka, has been around continually since if was first distilled in Easter Europe in the 700’s A.D. The name Vodka comes from the Russian word for water, ‘Voda’. Interestingly, the Gaelic for whiskey is ‘uisce beatha’, or ‘the water of life’. Where vodka was born is up for debate. I have seen data that would back either Poland or Scandinavia; however, the Russians are what made vodka famous and started commercial production in the 14th century, so the Russians get credit for vodka like the Spanish get credit for discovering America even though the Scandinavians discovered and attempted to colonize it 500 years earlier. Since the Scandinavians got ripped off twice in one paragraph, lets give them credit for Lutafisk and colonizing the Lutheran Upper Midwest.
