Comments on: Strong Drinks and Hot Drinks

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

According to the "rule" of the WoW as long as your not drinking it, it is fair game. I think the europeans have a much more healthy attitude that americans (I don't know about the Canadians).

We can't help ourselves from twisting and pulling at the rule to cover as much as possible. Maybe the puritanical ethic or something.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The WofW doesn't say anything about coffee anyway. Because it defines it as hot drinks doesn't make it ok cold. Later revelation says coffee is prohibited, it doesn't say hot coffee and cold is ok.

I have a hard time justifing coffee in ice-cream when I can't justify ice-tea.

Alchol in any form, on salad, in a drink or in ice-cream or whatever I think is against the WofW.

It goes back to personal justification, are we looking for ways "around" the commandments?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

"I have a hard time justifying coffee in ice-cream when I can't justify ice-tea."

The difference however is that iced tea is simply cold tea. Mocha ice-cream, however, is ice cream flavoured with coffee granules (among other things).

By: Eric Russell

Eric Russell — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The question that gets me is what kinds of tea are considered “tea”. I’ve heard some say that it’s green tea and black tea, but on my mission we just taught people that black tea was wrong. Does anyone know for sure?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eric,

It is my understanding that it includes any drink made from the Camellia sinensis plant. This, of course, includes both green and black tea, as well as a host of other variations. The only difference between green tea and black tea is the amount of oxidation the leaves undergo.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It's all about interpretation. I think a lot of people use the "appearance of evil" card when it comes to products like beer-battered fries, Jack Daniel's BBQ sauce or even coffee cake.

I don't think eating these products is a violation of the WofW.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kim, when you have mocha flavoring in your blizzard/ice cream how much mocha is ok. Is there an amount that is ok, but then if you add a few more granules it's not ok?

If you take your coffee with cream, then couldn't you just say you're drinking cream with mocha flavoring?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

"when you have mocha flavoring in your blizzard/ice cream how much mocha is ok"

Well, that's asking much of what I was asking with this post.

"If you take your coffee with cream, then couldn't you just say you're drinking cream with mocha flavoring?"

No, you're drinking coffee with cream flavouring.

By: Steve-o

Steve-o — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The WoW says:
Strong drinks are not for the belly.
It would seem to me that the reasoning has to do with where the alchohol goes, not how it got there. I know some great chocolates you can ea–and just where to get them–that could get you drunker than a monkey in no time. I would say that given that the wording is the same for “hot drinks,” and that subsequent revelations have interpreted that as coffee and tea, I’d take the same tack with them.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

"It would seem to me that the reasoning has to do with where the alcohol goes, not how it got there."

That's complete speculation though. The Lord has not told us why strong drinks (or hot drinks for the matter) are bad for the belly, only that they are.

It is interesting to note, for example, that the Lord says "hot drinks" and not "ingredients in hot drinks".