Two videos with two good looking women, don't judge.

 

 

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I always wanted to try this. Drinking birch sap in the spring. After all, our town has the nickname “town of the birch”. I just never had the opportunity to do that. Another thing one can do with birch in the spring is to take the first leaf, when they still looks like mouse ears and use them to favour vodka. There are people who try to do that as entrepreneurs.

More on the subject of making food and breageve from things you find in nature in the spring. Here’s a video about dandelion wine.

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My dandelion wine anecdote. We used to think that dandelion wine was a narcotic. Very logical, in our early teens me and some friends saw some crime comedy, about two guys who tried to scam criminals.Then the main character in the movie is hunted by the wrong people, as happens when you scam criminals, he decided that prison will be the safest place to be. He goes up to a police officer and says he has made dandelion wine. The police arrest him. So dandelion wine was illegal. Teenage logic tells us that dandelion wine therefore must be a drug. 

 

Well, while it is true that dandelion wine was illegal, that wasn’t teen logic, it was government logic. The law was it was legal to brew beer and fruit wine, everything else was illegal alcohol.  A wine made from flowers must be illegal. Not that I know if anyone actually was arrested for making dandelion wine. But yep, technically illegal here, in the old days. And someone thought it was funny to have that as a plot point in a comedy.
 

Ps. I actually haven’t watched the videos, but I assume they are about what the title says.