{"id":1639,"date":"2010-01-26T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2010-01-23T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T09:27:01","slug":"monks-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Monks of Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3058673005\/\" title=\"Charing Cross 213\" target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3166\/3058673005_d03f01da1c_m.jpg\" title=\"Charing Cross 213\" alt=\"Charing Cross 213\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" hspace=10 align=left \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Unrelatedly, but brought to mind when thinking of <i>eejits<\/i>, those of you in the UK should watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00q2qmh\/The_Buckfast_Code\/\" target=_blank>The Buckfast Code<\/a>, on iPlayer.  Why?  Well, what drink has less than 2% of the alcohol market, yet is involved in about half of all alcohol-involved, violent crimes in Scotland?  Oh, yeah, baby: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine\" target=_blank>Buckfast Tonic Wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3038945636\/\" title=\"Charing Cross 202\" target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3022\/3038945636_3463e40d3e_m.jpg\" title=\"Charing Cross 202\" alt=\"Charing Cross 202\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" hspace=10 align=right \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s made by monks <b>of evil<\/b>, apparently: who else would manufacture a fortified wine with a whopping caffeine content?  The green bottle &#8211; the UK version &#8211; has 37.5mg caffeine per 100ml &#8211; about the same quantity as a cola beverage which is 35mg per 375ml can.  If you&#8217;re in Ireland?  <b>Your Bucky has 50% more caffeine than the UK version<\/b>, at 55mg\/100ml &#8211; more than is in a cup of tea.  To put this differently: per volume, the green bottle has 4 times as much caffeine as Coca Cola, and the brown bottle has 6 times as much!<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>If you&#8217;re outside of the UK, you&#8217;ll not be able to watch, which is a real shame.  We can&#8217;t figure out a way around this copy protection, either, so you&#8217;ll just have to trust us: it was worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unrelatedly, but brought to mind when thinking of eejits, those of you in the UK should watch The Buckfast Code, on iPlayer. Why? Well, what drink has less than 2% of the alcohol market, yet is involved in about half of all alcohol-involved, violent crimes in Scotland? Oh, yeah, baby: Buckfast Tonic Wine. It&#8217;s made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}