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

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    It was for cider. They drank a staggering amount of beer, cider and rum on a daily basis in the early 1800’s. Cider consumption per capita in the was around 15 gallons/year. They drank even more beer and rum. They were also drinking around 5 gallons/year of distilled spirits.

    Most people were what we would classify as functional alcoholics today.