How would you measure ritual:function ratio of beverage traditions (tea, coffee, wine, scotch, bourbon, beer, soda, water)
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Post proposal: invent and publish a "Ritualization Index" of beverage traditions.
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For example, having a drink in the right kind of glass makes almost zero difference to my enjoyment of a drink
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it's hard to completely disentangle ritual for caffeiene and alcohol from their functions.
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All of those beverages have ritual-heavy and ritual-light variants (teabag vs. tea ceremony).
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so consider water. you need it to live, but other than the past few decades it was pretty dangerous.
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2 axes for ritual:special & mundane.UK tea scores v highly on mundane but low on special. Tea in Japan v high on both.
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anything you have to boil (tisane like that, tea) - not sure if those are boiled
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