Conversations at our house

[ocelot]

koyote: We need German purity laws.

Me: *odd look*

koyote: Like with beer. In Germany, you can't label something as beer unless it contains barley, water, yeast, and hops, and nothing else....

[Conversation continues in a related matter for a few minutes]

Me: You realize the phrase "German purity laws" could be taken the wrong way, right?

koyote: Oh, oops! So that's why you had such a weird expression when I said that!

Me: I just Godwin'd the conversation, didn't I?

Leif: You goblin'd the conversation?

Comments

[gdmusumeci.livejournal.com]

The Reinheitsgebot is fascinating -- but it was weakened in the late 80s and ended up being replaced with a different law in the early 90s. Anyways, originally beer could only contain water, barley, and hops -- they didn't know about yeast in 1516! Nowadays, though, you can also use wheat malt, cane sugar, etc.