A French name for a drink made of coffee and brandy. It is a cheap wine used in the North.
Bistrouille emerged from it turgid appearance and it derives from the French bis, meaning twice and touiller, meaning to mix, the coffee first being mixed with milk and then with brandy.
From the word of bistrouille came the popular word of bistro a corruption of bystro, meaning a quick because the 1815 occupation of France Russian officers would struck into Paris bars and café’s demanding to be served bystro.
The Russian officers raced into the restaurants and cafes to eat and drink with shouts of bystro! bystro! (quick! quick!).
Historically the restaurants or bistro served alcohols and a relatively small selection of foods for one course meals.
Beverage is a liquid for drinking; drink; usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as an intoxicating beverage. While the history is a systematic accounts of events particularly of those affecting a nation, institution science or art, and usually connected with philosophical explanation of their causes. In this case the history of beverage means that the systematic account about the development of beverage.
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