French children used to be given wine daily

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It used to be standard to give children low alcohol beer in Europe and America, makes sense the same would be true of wine. Probably very low alcohol content.

[–]HonkyTonky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I just ate a newspaper that was soaked in wine

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they also used to not have safe drinking water supplies and the booze was safer to drink so :shrug: