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SwampYankee · #31 06-13-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mistress

I can't drink beer, I have sprue's disease.

Has there been an increase in Sprue/Celiac cases or has it just been better diagnosed? Two of my wife's friends and one of my daughter's classmates have Celiac disease. Maybe it's just a matter of awareness but I can't say that I heard much about it a decade ago.

Mistress · #32 06-13-2008, 01:54 PM

It's been around forever but up until 10 years ago many people were being mis-diagnosed with "nervous stomach or irritable bowl syndrome."

SwampYankee · #33 06-13-2008, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mistress

It's been around forever but up until 10 years ago many people were being mis-diagnosed with "nervous stomach or irritable bowl syndrome."

Gotcha, I figured as much. It's not that uncommon. Are there any thoughts on what causes it? One of her friends started having real bad reactions when she got into her early 40's whereas prior to then she'd eat breads, pastas, etc. with no problem. They recently spent 1.5 years outside of Paris due to her husband's job, as a breadophile (?

) I couldn't imagine being there and not being able to eat it.

Mistress · #34 06-13-2008, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

Gotcha, I figured as much. It's not that uncommon. Are there any thoughts on what causes it? One of her friends started having real bad reactions when she got into her early 40's whereas prior to then she'd eat breads, pastas, etc. with no problem. They recently spent 1.5 years outside of Paris due to her husband's job, as a breadophile (?

) I couldn't imagine being there and not being able to eat it.

Genetic malfunction....damn DNA.

Hatterasguy · #35 06-13-2008, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

Hartford, and CT as a whole, is in much the same position. I don't know about STL, but here the political brain (drain) trust's solution is to raise corporate taxes to make up for those lost to the south and west.

Lets tax an already heavily taxed business base (at or near the top of the lists) some more. That should do wonders for retention and even more for attraction.

Then they wonder why corporations are leaving.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy and a microcosm of the business climate in the U.S. It's not how can we make it easier for you to stay here and compete on a federal or global level, it's how dare you have the audacity to leave in pursuit of your best interests.

CT won't wake up until UTC (Pratt, Sikorsky) Electric Boat/General Dynamics decide they've had enough of the state's B.S. and relocate. I'd add Phizer to that list except they recently built and expanded their Groton location, but who knows.

Yep, they are all going to Texas because land is cheap and tax BS is low.

I know someone who worked for Pepsi and they pulled a pretty major office out of Stamford probably 10 years ago, went to Ireland.

The states better be carefull these days, location matters less and less.

SwampYankee · #36 06-13-2008, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

The states better be carefull these days, location matters less and less.

This country, too.

tompaah7503 · #37 06-13-2008, 05:25 PM

Congratulations on the bid - it can only get better!

I'm on my second bottle of Weihenstephan for the evening. This stuff tastes like heaven!
Think of it - the Weihenstephan brewery was established in 1040 (no, not a typo).. Nearly a 1000 year legacy of making beer..
The vikings roamed around Europe at that point, nothing out of the ordinary happened in North America (trees grew, rain poured, sun shine), and the Germans were making the worlds best beer already!
And while waiting another 853 years for the Diesel engine they drank Weihestephan. Amazing.
Cheers!

Hatterasguy · #38 06-13-2008, 09:28 PM

No wonder its been in business so long! No one is going to attack the beer!

Vikings march by...lets have a drink that burn the rest.
French march by...lets have a drink that burn the rest.
British march by...lets have a drink that burn the rest.
Germans march by...lets have a drink that burn the rest.
Americans march by...lets have a drink that burn the rest.

And so it continues.

tompaah7503 · #39 06-14-2008, 03:51 AM

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And so it continues.

You're not completely off the mark you know..

Here's an excerpt from the brewery's homepage:

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955 AD. That year the Huns plundered and destroyed the Weihenstephan Monastery, thus laying the cornerstone for a long-standing tradition that condemned the Benedictine monks to repeated reconstruction of their monastery.

Between 1085 and 1463 the Weihenstephan Monastery burned down completely four times, was destroyed or depopulated by three plagues, various famines and a great earthquake. (But that wasn't enough)

What the Huns started in 955 was continued successfully by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian (!) in 1336 and later by the Swedes and French in the Thirty Years War and then by the Austrians in the War of the Spanish Succession. They destroyed and plundered the Weihenstephan Monastery. But the Benedictines did not give up easily. With Bavarian tenacity they rebuilt the monastery and brewery again and again and even succeeded in refining their brewing art.

Talk about a tough bunch of monks!!

http://www.brauerei-weihenstephan.de/index.php?page=historie_2_1