Beer Before Milk

James, a German immigrant who has been living in the United States for 45 years, talks about what he finds strange in the United States:

Then it wasn’t a law but they were already trying to push as a law… the drinking. The drinking age should be twenty-one… In Europe we always had beer and wine at home. It was like… I always say that my mother gave me beer before she gave me milk!

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