Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine-Glo

Vine-Glo was a grape concentrate brick product sold in the United States during Prohibition by Fruit Industries Ltd, a front for the California Vineyardist Association (CVA), from 1929.

The product was advertised with tips for preventing alcoholic fermentation, with one salesperson giving customers a very specific warning: "Do not place the liquid in this jug and put it away in the cupboard for twenty-one days, because then it would turn into wine."

When Vine-Glo was introduced, the drys protested it

Oooohhh those lousy drys!

Here in Sweden there used to be ads in the newspaper with mailorder juice- or pressure cooker and warnings of how to not accidentally turn it into a distillery and make booze.

🎵Just let your Vine-glo
🎵Just let it shine through

i know what this is referring to!

Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers Lyrics i love that song 😍😍

Yeah just ask your nearest druggist.

Bzzt. Wrong.

Try this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33Ef7gS0vE

i ... don't hate it

My brain went there too.

I got curious one day looking at how distilleries with "Since 18xx" survived. They pivoted. Alcohol was fine as a drug and prescription, and also wines were still sold as sacremental for churches. Also, church attendance rose noticeably during Prohibition. Wanna get drunk ye alcoholics? Come to Mass!

It is a great song, thanks for introducing me to it 🥰 .

i was introduced to it by a lemmy user 2 weeks ago. joelle@blahaj.zone i think was their name?