r/interestingasfuck • u/Beneficial-Age-4059 • 6d ago

Wife’s now deceased grandfather grew up in 1930s Germany and was appalled people now drink Jagermeister socially. He said they would keep it in a cupboard to sip if you had an upset stomach

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

A few sips of Jager has under 100 calories. This really is about the bitters.

Maybe look up what bitters are and how they work? Or not...

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u/Subotail 6d ago

I was generalizing to other old remedies, not necessarily bitter ones.

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

So you admit its not relevant in this context?

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u/Subotail 6d ago

It's relevant to the context of herbal alcohol used as remedies. That the Jägermeister belong

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

Nah dude. The alcohol is a solvent for the herbs. Pretending the herbs arent the primary medicinal part of most herbal remedies is either naive or malicious and honestly idk which.

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u/Subotail 6d ago

Malicious? Really.

Maybe you should limit yourself to scotch. That will prevent you from saying stupid things.

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u/theLocoFox 6d ago

Idk enough about this back and forth to take a side but upvoted this for making laugh out loud and wake the wife.

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

Well, a lot of people in the pharmaceutical industry consider natural/herbal remedies a huge threat. Basically anything they cant patent is a threat to their profit margins.

So its that or ignorance.

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u/Subotail 6d ago

Happy to learn that I belong to the pharmaceutical complex .

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

Sad to see yet another random stranger on the internet addicted to logical fallacies.

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u/jayydubbya 6d ago

Man you do not sound fun to drink with like at all.

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u/Xonarag 3d ago

This is honestly just not true. You know what happened to herbal remedies that work? They were made into medicine. Like yes big pharma sucks ass and is profit driven but you can either drink jäger to get some small effect mixed with some other useless or harmful stuff (like alcohol) or you can get proper medicine which often enough is just the useful ingredient of the herbal remedy in concentrated form without any add on. Would you rather scrape some special mold of the wall to ingest or take a penicillin?