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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAncient gladiators drank a tangy "sports drink"
http://www.livescience.com/48466-gladiators-drank-ashy-drink.html?google_editors_picks=true-snip-
Long before modern athletes recharged with post-workout drinks, ancient gladiators may have guzzled an ash-filled beverage laden with electrolytes a Roman-era equivalent of a sports drink.
The skeletal remains of gladiators unearthed in a cemetery in Ephesus, Turkey, suggest the fighters may have drunk a beverage made from ash, vinegar and water.
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Ancient gladiators drank a tangy "sports drink" (Original Post)
LiberalElite
Oct 2014
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Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)1. Sure. It was called Glad'orade.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)2. .
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)8. ....
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)3. Sounds incredibly bitter, if not outright disgusting
blogslut
(38,000 posts)4. Switchel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchel
I've been trying to get blogslut jr. to down a shot glass full of honey, mixed with cider vinegar to help her with her hay fever and aching bones. She's not having it. Kids these days.
Switchel, also switzel, swizzle, ginger-water, haymaker's punch or switchy, is a drink made of water mixed with vinegar, and often seasoned with ginger. Honey, sugar, brown sugar, or maple syrup were sometimes used to sweeten the drink instead of molasses. In the U.S. state of Vermont, oatmeal and lemon juice were sometimes added to the beverage.
Switchel originated in the Caribbean, and had become a popular summer drink in the American Colonies in the late 17th century. By the 19th century, it had become a traditional drink to serve to thirsty farmers at hay harvest time, hence the nickname haymaker's punch.[1] Herman Melville wrote in I and My Chimney, "I will give a traveler a cup of switchel, if he want it; but am I bound to supply him with a sweet taste?"[2] In The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder describes a switchel-like beverage that her mother had sent for Laura and her father to drink while haying: "Ma had sent them ginger-water. She had sweetened the cool well-water with sugar, flavored it with vinegar, and put in plenty of ginger to warm their stomachs so they could drink till they were not thirsty. Ginger-water would not make them sick, as plain cold water would when they were so hot."
The Vermont physician D. C. Jarvis recommended a similar drink (a mixture of honey and cider vinegar), which he called "honegar."[3]
The recipe is very similar to that of ginger beer, where vinegar is replaced with lemon or lime juice and bacteria are added to induce fermentation...
Switchel originated in the Caribbean, and had become a popular summer drink in the American Colonies in the late 17th century. By the 19th century, it had become a traditional drink to serve to thirsty farmers at hay harvest time, hence the nickname haymaker's punch.[1] Herman Melville wrote in I and My Chimney, "I will give a traveler a cup of switchel, if he want it; but am I bound to supply him with a sweet taste?"[2] In The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder describes a switchel-like beverage that her mother had sent for Laura and her father to drink while haying: "Ma had sent them ginger-water. She had sweetened the cool well-water with sugar, flavored it with vinegar, and put in plenty of ginger to warm their stomachs so they could drink till they were not thirsty. Ginger-water would not make them sick, as plain cold water would when they were so hot."
The Vermont physician D. C. Jarvis recommended a similar drink (a mixture of honey and cider vinegar), which he called "honegar."[3]
The recipe is very similar to that of ginger beer, where vinegar is replaced with lemon or lime juice and bacteria are added to induce fermentation...
I've been trying to get blogslut jr. to down a shot glass full of honey, mixed with cider vinegar to help her with her hay fever and aching bones. She's not having it. Kids these days.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)5. Wouldn't the ash and vinegar react by releasing CO2 and getting fizzy?
I wonder if this was the first carbonated soft drink.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)6. I love the Ancients. n/t
Initech
(100,076 posts)7. But does it have what plants crave?