Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Founding Fathers: The Original Partiers in the USA

Just ask Benjamin Franklin, who once said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."  Also, according to the Huffington Post, "In 1787, two days before they signed off on the Constitution, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention partied at a tavern. According to the bill preserved from the evening, they drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch."  Partiers indeed.

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