Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. 🙃

  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    15 gallons per year comes out to about 6 pints per week. Not exactly staggering amounts, but combined with the spirits (and I’m sure they were drinking other stuff as well), it would definitely qualify for alcoholism today.