Re: CHAT drinking soup: (was: Malat (on behalf of Garrett))

At 05:11 PM 12/8/98 -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>Adam Walker wrote:
>>
>>  I haven't paid any attention to this thread until just now so I may
>> have missed a previous reference to this or something similar, but in
>> Indonesian/Malay one "drinks" a cigarette!!  Smoke is definitely
>> non-solid, but also non-liquid.
>
>I think I read somewhere that people used to refer to smoking as
>drinking tobacco in the past, but I don't have any other information
>about that, unfortunately.
Thomas Weelkes (c. 1575-1623) wrote a madrigal about tobacco (then a strange
and novel drug recently introduced from the New World) which says:

        Come, sirrah, Jack ho!
        Fill some tobacco!
        Bring a wire and some fire!
        Haste, haste, away, quick, I say,
        Do not stay, shun delay,
        For I drank none good today.
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