It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the “honey month” or what we know today as the “honeymoon”.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their pints and quarts and settle down. That is where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s”.
In 1740 Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided to water down the Navy’s rum. Needless to say, the sailors weren’t too pleased and called Admiral Vernon Old Grog after the stiff wool grogram coats he wore. The term grog soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you are drunk on this grog, you were groggy, a word still in use today.
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. “Wet your whistle” is the phrase inspired by this practice.
Gator Hunter
I sure do get a lot of comments on it anyways!
