"katysails" wrote in message

Uh, Max..the Brits aren't really known for having a good sense of flavor.
Their food is very bland....unless it's been influenced by Indian curry
cooking. Scones are about as palatable as eating wallpaper paste unless a
pint of jam is poured on them to disguise the fact that there's no flavor.
And most everything is cooked to rags.....so...do we make the conjecture
that 150 proof alcohol has damaged the nerve endings in their tongues, or
do
we think that maybe they're compensating somehow? Maybe the quicker you
get
drunk the less you have to worry about what your food tastes like?

Or perhaps if one gets immediately drunk, one doesn't have to eat at all,
exsanguinating gastric ulcers notwithstanding.

Max