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The bar tab for the farewell party for George Washington. These guys did not mess around.

submitted by Crackinjokes to History 15 hoursMay 12, 2025 12:56:22 ago (+11/-0)     (youtube.com)

https://youtube.com/shorts/VJsbOpcGfGI



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[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 1 point 15 hoursMay 12, 2025 13:02:19 ago (+1/-0)

Soda wasn't invented and tea was kind of out of style. What else are they gonna drink, water? The stuff you give to horses? I don't think so.

[ - ] drstrangergov 1 point 12 hoursMay 12, 2025 16:22:21 ago (+1/-0)

like out the terlet? yech!

[ - ] Ducktalesooo000ooo 1 point 15 hoursMay 12, 2025 13:04:56 ago (+1/-0)

No wonder he had piles

[ - ] 5BillionDeadniGGers 1 point 13 hoursMay 12, 2025 15:03:53 ago (+1/-0)

7 beers...

"mate youre drunk, get a beer instead of alcohol!" XD

[ - ] dassar 1 point 11 hoursMay 12, 2025 17:04:59 ago (+1/-0)

Didnt Samuel Adams own a brewery ?/

A quick napkin calc - bottle madeira and bottle claret each, 2/5th's bottle port each, a couple (around 4) shots of whisky each, a third of bottle of hard cider and a bottle and half of beer each (presumably 12 cases), with a wash or two of fruit punch.
Good times

[ - ] xmasskull 1 point 11 hoursMay 12, 2025 17:22:14 ago (+1/-0)

Total cost then: $8.00!

[ - ] BMN003 1 point 7 hoursMay 12, 2025 21:25:11 ago (+1/-0)

If you had a $5.00 face value Half Eage and a $2.50 face Quarter Eagle from 1799, you'd be looking at about $1,500 in today's gold value (modern coin equivalent, not junk gold; the coins themselves of course would be priceless today.) Now of course that wouldn't pay that bar tab if you tried to run it up today, but consider that there were no excise taxes on alcohol (which in the US can run almost $1/bottle of wine, or $7.25/fifth of liquor,) and many of the items on that tab were locally produced rather than shipped transatlantic. Frankly I suspect the bar tab was closer to just the $2.50 Quarter Eagle, if that, based on what else that amount of gold could buy at the time.

Also apparently 1799 Gold Eagles are not priceless. There are a few available for sale, but the asking price is at least $250,000. So priceless, but only for the plebians.