It is hard to imagine the history of Polish culture without alcohol. Has anyone ever known a sober poet? - asked Kochanowski rhetorically centuries ago. I
And he answered himself: He will not do such a one any good.
We don't know what Gall Anonim or Wincenty Kadlubek drank, but we do know that Mickiewicz drank large quantities of wine, Słowacki drank vodka with ether, Norwid virtually everything.
Occasionally, the filigree Frédéric Chopin also abused liquor - and then he became the attraction of the evening.
With such role models, successive generations of creatives have looked into glasses, chugged booze, soaked their mouths, shaved champagne or snorted monopoly.
(taken from Julian Tuwim's 'Polish Drinking Dictionary').

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