With
drinking whisky for a while and being a Jock, I got to be curious on the
history of the Dram how it came about, the history of my homeland, looking on
line, reading about it, it was boring, as people who know me know I’m not much
of a reader, actually if it’s something long winded, I get bored and stop, Ha-ha
I hear then say in the gallery…… long winded! Read your own Blog. Well it could
be some are long winded. LOL.
In
this you tube video, I found informative and interesting, actor Brian Cox has a
series of videos revealing as they say the rich and controversial past of
sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium to uncover how the commercial exploitation of
these products hooked the world. In this last episode in the series he reveals
how whisky was born and how it challenged the tax man; finally succumb to the British
tax system, and how that history established the Scottish national drink, then
the leading to the alcoholic jakey or in proper English, addiction and the social
problem with the Scottish drinking.
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