"Melinda" > wrote in news:11ej6arnto1j990
@corp.supernews.com:

> I've heard people say tea won WW2 for the Brits...here we go again.
>
> http://watleyreview.com/2005/072605-1.html
>
> (satire..er..in case you didn't get that)
>

Somehow it seems that the difference between the Watley's & Reuters'
pieces is one of emphasis, not kind, despite the fact that one happened
and the other didn't (sllegedly).

BTW, Scott, in your thread of years ago you forgot about the coffee-
drinking Arabs and Berbers taking North Africa & Spain away from the
watered-down wine drinking East Romans and beer-drinking Visigoths. Or
for that matter how, in later centuries, the strong-coffee Turks whittled
away at the remnants of the old Roman (Byzantine) Empire (who had switched
to perfumed wine as their favorite tiple), finally taking their capitol
(Constantinople, now Istambul) in 1453.

Maybe the relationship is between national drinks and military might is
slightly more complex:

Tea > Coffee > non-distilled alcohol :-))

Ozzy