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>Wasn't much choice in the ancient times, I guess.
I mean modern days. I thought it was more of an ubiquitous drink. You know, you grow up in a smol irrelevant place, but still assume your life is the default.
>It's hard to find these in Norgay? Guess it doesn't grow that far north but still...
I think I only ever ate so much of them because my granny is an expert gardener. She would grow basically anything she could. Even grapes in our climate. She would find some new species of turnip and decide how revolutionary healthy it is and force me to gnaw on her big beatiful radishes when they were in season. Of course, there was plenty of cherries and strawberries and an absolutely yuge blackcurrant bush as reward. Red delicious apple tree for munching and Antonov apples for juice, a secret garden of pears, soem cherries that you need to beat the birds to, an ever expanding raspberry colony, recurrants for jam on the far corner of the yard, goosberries with spiny branches to harvest as punsihment, a hazelnut tree on the roadside, some walnuts somewhere somehow that I never even knew existed, stepppe olives that look so pretty, but never even knew were edible and so on....