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Post by brokennock on May 21, 2022 8:40:46 GMT -7
I’m currently at my mother-in-law’s house, 250 miles from home, in a well-to-do neighborhood, in Connecticut, where the lawn care machinery start at 6:00. This will be a day where I’ll need coffee to fortify myself. I pour my morning cup. Then… read about ‘slops’. Good grief! 😜 So you're about 45 minutes away?
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Post by brokennock on May 21, 2022 8:43:29 GMT -7
RyanAK said, "And neither does a sheep’s bladder or sow’s teat, Spence!" I can see you need an attitude adjustment. Just as important to a true impression as the clothing and guns is the mindset of the day. That's the toughest one to pull off, and does call for some sacrifices. Some which are painful. Doddridge, Joseph; _Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, from 1763 to 1783, Inclusive_ "Tea and coffee were only slops, which in the adage of the day 'did not stick by the ribs.' The idea was they were designed only for people of quality who do not labor, or the sick. A genuine backwoodsman would have thought himself disgraced by showing a fondness for these slops. Indeed, many of them have, to this day, very little respect for them." Think of how much less complicated your impression would be by simply skipping the coffee. Occam's razor. Spence Well Spence sorry to disappoint your high opinion of some of us, lol. I'm not one for putting on airs, I have no delusions of adequacy. I live my "slops" and worse, can't function at my usual mediocre level without my coffee. A woods trip without it could very well end in disaster. 😉😆😆😆
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Post by RyanAK on May 21, 2022 9:29:09 GMT -7
This guy has coffee conveyance figured out. Slops or not.
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Post by spence on May 21, 2022 10:00:20 GMT -7
Their low opinion of coffee may be down to the way they made it.
"Eighteenth Century America: A Hessian Report On the People, the Land, the War, As Noted in the Diary of Chaplain Philipp Waldeck (1776-1780)", translated by Bruce E Burgoyne, entry of Jan. 19, 1778:
"I have been in a variety of tea-drinking situations. I would bet everything in the world that it is impossible in traveling through North America to find a single house, from that of the fanciest gentleman to that of the oyster digger, where the people do not drink a cup of tea at midday. The men could sooner get their wives to give up their finery than to do without tea. And if a law were passed making tea-drinking illegal, I do not doubt for a moment that the entire population would take up arms and begin a rebellion as now exists. It is not only the ladies who are so addicted to tea, but also the men, who break from work at three o'clock in order to sit down to a cup of tea. We [the German officers] drink it, however, as a courtesy to the society in which we find ourselves, or for fear that we will be served coffee, which the American make in a strange way. They only color the water brown."
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Post by Black Hand on May 21, 2022 11:09:59 GMT -7
This guy has coffee conveyance figured out. Slops or not. That's not coffee - it's full of rum (and really not enough).
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Post by spence on May 21, 2022 11:25:56 GMT -7
You may be surprised at the shapes of bottles used to make leather-covered glass canteens. From the Tom Wnuck estate: Can you read what it says on the big one? Spence
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Post by paranger on May 21, 2022 11:48:49 GMT -7
Clear glass even...I"ll be darned. There you go, Ryan.
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Post by spence on May 21, 2022 11:58:24 GMT -7
Clear glass even...I"ll be darned. When we start to think we have a grasp on the material culture of the 18th century we should remember the famous quotation by the physicist Richard Feynman about quantum mechanics. "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." Spence
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Post by RyanAK on May 21, 2022 12:15:22 GMT -7
Clear glass even...I"ll be darned. When we start to think we have a grasp on the material culture of the 18th century we should remember the famous quotation by the physicist Richard Feynman about quantum mechanics. "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." Spence So true, Spence! We seem to lock things into the canon but then something comes along to challenge our understanding. I like the shapes. The larger: T O N 40 ?? The smaller seems to have a flower or ‘hex’ sign on it. So fascinating! The Hessian quote is great, too. What an interesting observation from a unique perspective.
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Post by spence on May 21, 2022 12:52:50 GMT -7
Or maybe JON 40?
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Post by RyanAK on May 21, 2022 13:55:14 GMT -7
Maybe. Hmmm… Hand… not enough rum. I do love rum.
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Post by hawkeyes on May 21, 2022 13:59:46 GMT -7
Someone mention coffee?
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Post by RyanAK on May 21, 2022 14:02:37 GMT -7
Yes. Yea I did. Coffee. There. Mentioned again.
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Post by spence on May 21, 2022 14:21:31 GMT -7
Careful, RyanAK. Before you know it hawkeyes will sell you some.
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Post by RyanAK on May 21, 2022 14:44:40 GMT -7
I’d be a very easy sell. If he can tell me how to carry brewed coffee in the forest.
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