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P. G. Wodehouse

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

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Uncle George believed that alcohol could provide nutritional value before doctors commonly accepted this idea. This shows he had an early, unconventional view about alcohol's role in diet compared to medical experts of his time.

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