DZ
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DZ
On 2011-02-18 22:17, JOHN-O wrote:
Great stuff !! That reminds me of a Mammoth trip that I was on a few years ago. One friend brought his 6-year old son along and Grandma to watch the kid while he was skiing.
Now my friend shares the European belief that it's OK to let children drink alcohol with meals, that way they don't go nuts with the stuff when they get older.
We were having dinner at Angel's restaurant, when he gave his son half a bottle of Sierra Nevada to enjoy. All of the people around us started lauging when they thought the kid was just playing with an empty beer bottle. Their laughs turned to looks of horror when they realized that kid was chugging down that brew for real, right next to his doting Grandma no less. :D
I remember when I was a child living in Germany when my Air Force officer father was stationed there and I had a few experiences like that. When I was 7 or 8 my parents took my brother and me to dinner at the casino in Wiesbaden where we sat outside on the rococo palatial structure's rampart and my parents noticed couple at a nearby table with straws sipping a pink, frothy liquid out of a large silver bowl in the middle of the table. They asked the waiter what it was and he just said strawberry so they ordered a bowl for my brother and me. It tasted like strawberry soda but later turned out to be weissbier (wheat beer) flavored with strawberry syrup. After my brother and I finished it off my parents had to carry me back to the car.
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