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Yet I send my kid to work with a beer and the teacher freaks!
Lunch, nap, oui oui.
When I was a kid, it was common practice for a parent to dip their finger into some strong rum, and let their teething baby suck on rum soaked finger.
When I attended 1st and 2nd grade in rural Belgium (1955/56) I was the only boy in my class who didn’t have a ceramic-top bottle of beer at lunch. I had a bottle of warm 7-up, which all of the Belgian kids tried to trade me for.
We had a French exchange student in elementary school in America. I asked him what he ate for breakfast. He said “a glass of wine and a bowl of chocolate.” It was the most insane thing I’d ever heard.
Make France Great Again!
And they appear to have been dressed like Crusaders.
[And I thought they were kidding, over at Euro Itchy & ScratchyLand.](https://youtu.be/QNx8YI9gAHs?si=wMMK-ituQYNm7yp5)
*”My children need wine!”*
Why did they stop?
Jesus. That would be a generous ratio of bottles to *adults*.
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Meanwhile nap time was as quiet as could be…
Fuck yeah.
For a long time British water was feted so it was safer to drink an alcoholic beverage. School children in the UK would start the day off with a tiny beer with lower alcohol content. That’s where the phrase “small beer” comes from.
The US has some pretty Puritanical views on most things compared to the rest of the world. We’re kind of weird in that way, if you can imagine.
Hello? Itchy and Scratchy land open! Come on, my children needa wine!
French children drinking wine in school… checks for me. 
overall, for most of the world, drinking is not seen as a taboo/antipuritan thing. a glass of wine or a beer for a teenager is not a big deal and the novelty is dealt with early. meanwhile american kids go to college or to other countries and they go insane.
Euro Itchy and Scratchy Land open for business! Come on. My last paycheck bounced. My children need wine!
In Portugal, until probably the late fifties, it was common in rural areas to serve kids what we called “sopas de cavalo cansado” which translates to “tired horse soups”. They where made with bread, sugar and hot red wine, all soaked, kids went to school drunk and sleepy but at least not hungry. This caused a problem of alcoholism that still persists in older men today. People were extremely poor and didn’t have anything to feed to kids, only things available were wine, sugar and stale bread for breakfast.
Just to add to the context, these soups were standard practice for people that worked in the agricultural fields in northern Portugal, they were seen as some kind of energetic meal that helped to endure the hardship of rural work.
I know it’s not the same as alcohol, but here in Brazil children drink coffee from very young age. I started to have black coffee on my breakfast at around 5.
After 1956, kids had to wait until after school to drink their wine
Sucks for the kids getting to school in 1957
This reminds me of the time my 8 year old told her teacher I put her on a beer diet. Despite her not possessing any beer, the school called me in for a big meeting like it was true 😂
I grew up in France as a child, and with meals was always served my glass of half wine/half water. It was completely normal.
What else are they going to wash their ciggarette down with?
Some of those children look like they’re pushing 50 with a failing marriage, the old days were ROUGH yo
My dad told me about this! Born in Paris in 1940 he said he’d have “watered down wine” with lunch at school! I guess he wasn’t joking lol. (He left France around 1952)
Wait until you hear what happens in church. It was literally the reason I kept going for so long lmao.
It was necessary so kids didn’t get a dry mouth from the cigarettes