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Se-tegok Guiness Stout membuka selera. Sa-gelas Guinness Stout memuleh tenaga. Kerana tiap2 gelas Guinness Stout mengadongi khasiat. Ia memberi tenaga di-waktu badan berasa leteh dan lesu. Ini-lah minuman yang menambahkan khasiat kapada sa-barang santapan. Ya, sa-lepas bekerja, apabila berasa penat dan di-kala tiada selera, maka tidak ada-lah yang lebeh sempurna daripada sa-gelas Guinness Stout.
The colonials left many legacies. One is hard drinking that permeated right to the very heart of Malay society.
When I was growing up in the kampong, say circa 60 years ago, I noticed several times that the plump pot-bellied Penghulu Mukim of Gemencheh by the name of Osman would be sitting by a round marble table in a Chinese coffee shop taking a hard drink, whisky probably.
My father, worked hard as a rubber tapper. He was a share-cropper meaning that his take home wage was 50%. He was using a bicycle to go tap a 5ac rubber plot on a hillock. After his monthly sale of dried rubber sheets at the Chinese rubber dealer he would buy this dark coloured liquid and a packet of peanuts for after dinner drinking session. I could see the bubbles oozing when he poured the stout into the glass. I sat beside him waiting for the last bit left in the bottle and drank it. I did not like the taste. My father was not into stout to get drunk but to be rejuvenated as claimed by the advertisement. I did help him in several ways to process the latex into rubber sheets using a pair of milling machines and dry them in the sun for some days.
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