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Comment by IAmBroom

20 days ago

Americans in the last century advocated giving whiskey to teething infants.

Your pearls are adequately clutched, but I guarantee someone somewhere has given "the devil brew" to innocent babes.

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t-3  19 days ago

That's still somewhat common, but it generally entails rubbing whiskey on the gums, not feeding the babies shots of liquor.

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