Rauschtafeln und Haarbeutel

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A while ago I read an article, Kulturgeschichte: Abkehr vom Saurausch, that mentioned an interesting bit of bavariana:

Heutzutage ist die Grenze zwischen dem Trinken und dem Saufen, nun ja, fließend. Früher war das anders, da gab es die "Rauschtafel", die in der Wirtstube an der Wand hing und dem bayerischen Bierkonsumenten anzeigte, wie viel

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[allaboutweather]

Doesn't Bavaria have their own distinct dialect of German?

Makes sense that it's about drunk people. Where do you think Oktoberfest came from? :p

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Yes, it does.

Makes sense that it's about drunk people. Where do you think Oktoberfest came from? :p

Celebration of a royal marriage?

[allaboutweather]

Oh, that's where it came from? :)

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Indeed!

[allaboutweather]

Wow, so it's been a little over 200 years!

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Yeah - funny how young it is, isn't it? You just kinda expect it to be this traditional thing that goes way back, but no, it's only from the 19th century.

[allaboutweather]

You would think it was a medieval tradition yet some of America's Founding Fathers were still alive when Ludwig I got married.

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Wow, really? I didn't realize!

[allaboutweather]

Yeah. It's fascinating to compare the histories of different nations in the same time period. :)

For example, China became a Republic a few years before WWI.

Poland and Lithuania became a unified country (as the Kingdom of Poland) 20 years before the Forbidden City was built.