Yeah, I call bs on falling in love with beer on the first sip. My beer drinking friends describe it as “an acquired taste” or in other words ’tastes terrible’.
We have Mesopotamian clay tablets from 2000 BCE inscribed with riddles that are groan-worthy in a way that transcends millennia. Riddles require the speaker to mislead the listener on purpose, briefly, for amusement. It’s hard not to imagine a father deploying one on a child and enjoying the momentary confusion. The tablet doesn’t say “Dad said this,” but the social context fits too neatly to ignore.
Civilizations rise and fall. Empires crumble. But somewhere, 5,000 years ago, a child asked a question, and a dad answered with nonsense because it was funny. The torch has been faithfully carried ever since.
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Beer tastes like that to me.
Yeah, I call bs on falling in love with beer on the first sip. My beer drinking friends describe it as “an acquired taste” or in other words ’tastes terrible’.
For sure, author is 100% a beer-person who forgot the first time they tried it
I feel that way about most beers. I have definitely had quality beers that would make me drink again even if they were nonalcoholic though
Yeah, it’s just bread water and doesn’t taste good at all.
Not to say bread water can't taste good and also be almost non-alcoholic.
Having tried it I can safely say that kvass is also an acquired taste. Less so than beer, though.
I think it's easier to find a good tasting kvass than beer, but that's just anecdotal experience
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We have Mesopotamian clay tablets from 2000 BCE inscribed with riddles that are groan-worthy in a way that transcends millennia. Riddles require the speaker to mislead the listener on purpose, briefly, for amusement. It’s hard not to imagine a father deploying one on a child and enjoying the momentary confusion. The tablet doesn’t say “Dad said this,” but the social context fits too neatly to ignore.
Civilizations rise and fall. Empires crumble. But somewhere, 5,000 years ago, a child asked a question, and a dad answered with nonsense because it was funny. The torch has been faithfully carried ever since.
It would not surprise me if orcas and chimpanzees had their own form of dad jokes.
I don't see the final punchline as being about alcohol. You could replace it with any other drink and the joke would still work.
You're implying dads need a reason to bullshit their kids besides 'it's funny'
Ah, so you're more of a milkdrinker.
I mean... Beer does kinda taste like someone farted into a can of pee to me 🤷♂️
I can’t drink alcohol anymore because of medication. I don’t really miss it, but I wouldn’t say there were no beers I didn’t enjoy drinking.