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It was accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the brides father would supply his
son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period
was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon".
In English pubs, ale
is ordered in pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their
own pints and quarts and settle down. It is where the phrase "mind your own P's and Q's" came from.
Many
years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When the needed a
refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle", is the phrase inspired by this practice.
English "Pubs" were nicknamed as such because they were PUBlic drinking establishments.
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