Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. 🙃

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It was for cider. They drank a staggering amount of beer, cider and rum on a daily basis in the early 1800's. Cider consumption per capita in the was around 15 gallons/year. They drank even more beer and rum. They were also drinking around 5 gallons/year of distilled spirits.

Most people were what we would classify as functional alcoholics today.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    15 gallons per year comes out to about 6 pints per week. Not exactly staggering amounts, but combined with the spirits (and I’m sure they were drinking other stuff as well), it would definitely qualify for alcoholism today.

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