Cider is good for you

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5291150.stm

"Scientists in Glasgow are examining whether drinking cider may offer
the same health benefits as eating apples."

 

These scientists, were they sat in shop doorways, muttering to
themselves and swigging out of a bottle of white lightning?

 

If this were true, whinging courier would be in the peak of health.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, DoetNietComputeren belched forth and ejected the
following:

Arrrrrhh!

In my defence, I was drinking scrumpy which is a blend of apples rather
than cider which is made from just one variety.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Ooo, look who was paying attention to the fit burd then.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

I don't mind getting educated if it's something I'm interested in.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Fit burd + cider, you would pass with honours if there as an exam.

 

wessie wrote

I think this is something of a purist definition made by a company which
has it's roots not very far away from its back of the barn origins.

I have a feeling as well that this is a West Country "We Are The Home of
Real Cider" thing. But hey, if this is a proper distinction between the
two then it behoves us to keep this knowledge alive and get the EEC to
give huge grants to proper regional Cider makers and force the
multiglomerates to conform to Our language and not Us to theirs.

Colour me surprised.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache belched forth and ejected the
following:

<Bows>

Eyethangu.

 

I thought scrumpy was made using the whole apple, as opposed to the
juice/pressings of apples which makes cider?

Also, why to places like Thatchers do an oak-matured (which is a blend)
and their specifically labelled single-varietals?

 

wessie wrote

As could the stout Yeomen of The Great and Glorious County of Kent. In
fact pretty much any traditional Apple growing centaur prolly has more
than its fair share of good local brews, which are every bit the equal
of "Zomerzet Xrumpy".

 

LOL, partly funded by the National Association of Cider makers.
Surprised they've only got 12 volunteers, or are they limited to people
who will *only* consume cider.

Group 1: Cider only
Group 2: Cider and Beer
Group 3: Cider and Whisky
Group 4 (the control group): Cider and anything alcoholic at all.

I'd like to volunteer for research into the differences between wine
which retails below five pounds and those that retail above ten pounds.
I wonder if I were to fund the research myself would it be tax deductable ?

 

Donald wrote

Hmm. There appear to be no non drinking groups.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Christofire belched forth and ejected the
following:

I'd have thought the whole apple would be used in either process.

It'd be a faff removing all those pips and stalks!

Because the oak barrels probably once contained something else - It
gives the cider/scrumpy flavour, see. The place we went to in Cornwall
uses old Jack Daniel's barrels.

 

Pisses me off. It's very hard to find cider around here that's
mot marked: Contains dry cider and sweeteners.

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Let me rephrase that:

I don't think your[1] definition of cider is correct as other places do
ciders which are bends and ciders which are specifically marked as
being single varietal.

[1] or fit bird's

 

I was thinking there should be at least one apple-eating lot it there
too.

 

Well, yes, but it was also a "London in general" comment.

Within walking distance (for my Oyster was non-operational the
last couple of months) there's the Tesco Express on Cowley Road (10 min),
Tesco ?? in Fairfield Rd Yiewsley (20 min) and Tesco Metro in Uxbridge
High Street (30 mins).

Tja, but I'm _really_ Cowley Village. U1s are only 3 or 4/hour
and it takes some time to get from St Laurence Church to Ruislip. Hopping
onto a train at UXB is probably not that much quicker (and definitely more
expensive) given the indeterminate wait for the next one out.

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

If you want to stay sober you can sod off out of my experiment, same
goes for you fruit eaters too.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Donald belched forth and ejected the following:

Slightly OT but I'm going to be starting on the Osprey in a minute.