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

[ourgosling.livejournal.com]

:::snort:::

[live-momma.livejournal.com]

Nazi beer?

[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.

[figgy-newton.livejournal.com]

That is awesome :)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

This would be like Alaric declaring that we need UK Weight and Measure laws.

In the UK, at any moment someone from the government may walk in to your factory/shop, with your product that he bought off the shelf in a store, and demand that your product perform exactly like your ad/commercial shows. If it doesn't, you will prosecuted for false advertising which means heavy fines.

Small people wonder what this has to do with Weights and Measures.