Vinegar

A few days ago, my Mom and I were talking about....well...I don't really remember what we were talking about, exactly. All I DO know is that somehow VINEGAR found it's way into the subject. From there we talked about how we could use it to make house cleaner and other products, instead of just always buying Windex. Then I got to thinking (aloud, actually ;) what IS Vinegar anyway? Well, we called Grandma (she literally has a book on Vinegar!) and she gave us the answer:

A variety of flavoured vinegars on sale in France (bottom rows)

Vinegar is a liquid substance consisting mainly of acetic acid and water, the acetic acid being produced through the fermentation of ethanol by acetic acid bacteria.^[1] It is today mainly used in the kitchen, but historically, as the most easily available mild acid, it had a great variety of industrial, medical, and domestic uses. Commercial vinegar is produced either by fast or slow fermentation processes. In general, slow methods are used with traditional vinegars, and fermentation proceeds slowly over the course of weeks or months. The longer fermentation period allows for the accumulation of a nontoxic slime composed of acetic acid bacteria. Fast methods add mother of vinegar (i.e., bacterial culture) to the source liquid before adding air using a venturi pump system or a turbine to promote oxygenation to obtain the fastest fermentation. In fast production processes, vinegar may be produced in a period ranging from 20 hours to three days.

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So....Vinegar is a little more complicated than you thought, hu? ....Me too.
They tell you that it's actually REALLY healthy to consume at least 3 table-spoons of Vinegar a day; that it cleans out your system.
That's just not right...........I guess Vinegar is just another version of that medicine to cure all ailments like they had in the medieval days............VINEGAR: Good for Windex, cleaning oven tops, scrubbing toilets, wiping counters, cleaning knobs, shining handles, wiping floors.........drinking.
Sure........why not drink something you scrub your toilet with? Why not?!
(Is it just me, or can someone tell me that that is totally messed up?!)
Go ahead, everyone...go take your dose of fermented acid for the day!