#37: London’s Gin Craze // Mother’s Ruin

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300 years ago, London experienced a gin craze of epic scale, with
the average Londoner drinking 10 times the amount of gin that the
world's biggest gin drinking country does now.


Today, it's time to learn about how gin almost destroyed London.


We'll learn about:


Why 'gin' is called 'gin'

The perfect storm that made caused the gin boom

The gin shops

The ingredients of the 'gin'

"Drunk for a penny; dead drunk for two pennies; clean straw
for nothing.”

Gin craze = crack cocaine epidemic?

Poor Mary Defour

The Gin Act of 1751

Gin today & the resurgence of gin




Key vocabulary: Epidemic, Epic, Bear in mind, Customary,
Sophisticated, Phenomenon, Spirit, Juniper, Variant, Liquor,
Brandy, Fate, Imported, Patriotic, Domestic, Reliance,
Unlicensed, Boom, Legislation, Disposable income, Perfect storm,
Establishments, Sipping, Emerge, Fiendishly, Sulphuric acid,
Turpentine, Impotent, Sterile, Exceeded, Vast, Pass out,
Monotonous, Drawn parallels, Impurities, Hopelessly, Wake-up
call, Passed, Consumption, Resurgence, Craze, Stronghold



Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website
www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/londons-gin-craze


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