We all have traits considered odd by someone. "Oddity" is probably not the right word; maybe eccentric is better. I agree, most brilliant people are eccentric.
@@jondstewart - I figured. Carbohydrate consumption promotes cancer. Cancer tumors and their growth are fueled by glucose. Alcohol consumption is a big factor in Colon cancer development.
I’m amazed, Winston Churchill was portly, love his cigars, and definitely loved his alcohol, but lived to be 90. I don’t think he was an alcoholic, just loved to drink, but not in copious amounts.
@@Paratus7 Churchill was most definitely an alcoholic. He was however a functioning alcoholic. He used to drink champagne at breakfast, in Pol Roger One Imperial Pint bottles. Something which are now being revived now the UK has left the EU. He would then drink Scotch throughout the day, and beer, wine and brandy. There was an experiment of two American gentlemen who copied Churchill's diet of food and alcohol for the day, needless to say they felt extremely drunk by the end of the day, and quite ill the day after. It is clear that Churchill merely became accustomed to the amount of alcohol he consumed over time. He must have just had a strong metabolism that could cope with his excesses.
He drank several glasses of watered down whiskey in the morning, a glass of wine at breakfast, a full magnum bottle of champagne and a glass of cognac at lunch, several more glasses of watered down whiskey during the afternoon, and then another magnum bottle of champagne at dinner, with another glass of cognac for a night cap. He absolutely was an alcoholic. He also averaged 8 cigars a day.
For Americans who don't like tea....try it the way the British drink it next time you're there. It was a revelation to me when my Irish roommates made me tea with skim milk and sugar. It's good and actually gives just as much of a buzz as coffee!
This is such bollocks. Firstly, in those days the English breakfast was never served to a Gentlemen, he would help himself in a buffet style. Eggs, one rasher of bacon, toast and condiments constituted an "English breakfast", possibly a kedgeree or kippers and brown toast if staff are in residence but never all together. He would mix his morning red label with 90% tonic to cleanse the water and himself. Remember Sir Winston was 65 years old when he became PM and famous to the Empire. Before that, Lord of the Admiralty, writer, reporter and soldier. His diet changed massively in his later years but the constant booze intake remained, which was common in Whitehall, then and now I might add.
I figured the typical English breakfast was his favorite. The BRITs are the only people in Europe that eat breakfast the way Americans do, but on most of mainland, Europe, a roll, or a croissant with butter and jam or pastry and coffee is sufficient for them. Very common in Spain, France, Germany, and Italy.
Ireland also has the Full Irish Breakfast. Also to be fair the Germans can sometimes have a big breakfast too. Lots of salamis and cheese to start the day.
@@lynnhubbard844Correct. I get the sense people from other countries assume we eat bacon, eggs, pancakes and donuts every day. Not all of us Americans are fat asses, slothing around on motorized carts at Wal Mart!😂
Sometimes people drink to get messed up and sometimes people drink because of an astronomical task that needs to be accomplished and it gives them the ruthlessness and courage to see it through. Cough Cough WW2
Fried eggs, pastries, huge amounts of alcohol, cigar smoking;...and he lived to the ripe old age of 90. If he had listened to the health scolds, he probably wouldn't have lived to see the end of the war.
Winston Churchill had a very weak whiskey in the morning that was often called mouthwash. I think this is actually really interesting that he would drink alcohol so early and then run a country in war time. Their is a lot of stuff on his drinking habits and other war time leaders drinking habits that is really interesting.
Sure it wasn't Japanese rice wine Sake (pronounced Sah-kee), Churchill was a pure Brit don't think he started his day with Vodka & Southern Comfort is just a brand. So either it was whiskey or brandy ......
@@SS33333 yeah what ever... I guess it narrow down to just alcohol beverages.. hmmmm.. and don't forget he also worked on his garden after afew glass 🍸 as well..😁
Yeah I also thought they were going to mention the morning Whiskey. I think the drinking habits of those war time leaders has a lot to do with keep the nerves controlled and mildly sedated so you don't have to think nervously, also maybe Medicines were not that easy to take or get. Remember the alcohol is an anxiolytic.
I was doing research on Winston Churchill after taking some gummies, and watched this shortly after they hit so I'm really stoned but this was the most boring history video on this channel that I watched all the way through 😂
You forgot to mention he was a functioning alcoholic, and most people would start to have a hangover by lunch if they followed how much he drank and smoked through the day. Breakfast was pregaming, lol
Would have been better to set up his meal item per item and their nutritional values instead of just showing us pictures of any breakfast. This is really low level youtube work. Its a shame for such a channel
@@Space_Ghost_Hunter a full English breakfast is usually sausages, bacon, fried eggs, beans, mushrooms and fried tomato with toast. Sometimes also blood pudding.
The same old Indian lie. Why do you keep repeating it? Churchill did NOT cause the Bengal famine. If you do some proper research you'll find there were a number of reasons involving various competing groups, including rice distributors, and the Imperial Japanese Army, none of which involved a deliberate attempt by Churchill to starve the population of Bengal. And yet there are Indian sources that continually spread the lie that Churchill was somehow personally responsible, or that he could have halted the famine. Then how come there are respected Indian historians who say this wasn't true?
Dont oppose to the white wine in the morning but be smarter and eat as much vegan and oppose to obesity to hurt less living and few seconds before or just now a supernatural being wings on the metal bar outside telling me to head out ‘smirks’ should miss my unlawfully suspended RU-vid comments on my other RU-vid accounts
