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From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Formaldehyde in beer
Message-ID: <588@ihuxx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 21:35:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 21:35:54 1983
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Yes.  When I took an NROTC training cruise (fast attack sub) to
Guantanamo Bay, I found just how boring Cuba is.  The only things to
do were to swim, play tennis, and get drunk watching Cuban halftracks
patrolling on the horizon.  (This may sound like fun, and it is--for a
week or so.  But lord, how you get tired of those three things, when
the only people to do them with are men...)  In any case, I am
somewhat of a beer lover, and dug into my first canned beer with a
gusto that I wished I'd foregone.  In this case, refrigeration is a
luxury, and had to be reserved for those items that unquestionably
needed it, like food and dairy products; cases of beer sat in tin
sheds.  A drop or so of formaldehyde keeps it from spoiing--and there
were no tab-tops; it was back to the "church key".  But only a can or
two gave me a raging headache, so I discovered the tropical joys of a
bottle of gin, tonic, and several fresh limes while I was down there.
I even got to the point that I didn't care one way or the other about
ice.

I'm glad I left when I did.

				Dave Ihnat
				ihuxx!ignatz