Re: [OT] coca-cola and rust



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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> William Hamblen wrote:

>> ...children substituting soft drinks for milk.

> We weren't ALLOWED to! (Of course, growing up during the > Depression had its advantages - we didn't have much money > for such "extras" as soft drinks, whereas milk was > considered a necessary food.)

When I was a kid, we drank soft drinks with dinner because it wasn't
kosher to have milk with your meals (which usually had meat). I never
liked any of the sodas, but there wasn't much other choice. There was
always water, of course, but that seemed really boring. (That's what
I drink with most meals now, though.) To this day, even though I don't
keep kosher, I find the idea of drinking milk with a meal kind of
nauseating. And I really detest almost all soda. It's not really a
health thing, I just hate the taste.

Well, of course having been raised a WASP, our only dietary considerations were financial rather than religious. ;-) I never thought about it, but before the advent of soft drinks, what DID a kosher household serve its kids as a mealtime beverage? (Although if they were Russian Jews, maybe weak tea?) Certainly, before some sort of refrigeration, children in many cultures were served a waterd down version of the wine or beer the adults drank, but SFAIK, Jewish families were more abstemious (except for the holidays).


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