My point had to do with the feelings of the person imbibing the schnapps.  I had, in the paragraph above, mentioned the medical point of view (alcohol is a no no in the cold).  DMc

---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 05:28 PM 11/25/2010  -0600, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> >many a  person has found schnapps to be a real warmer upper when
> >coming indoors from brutal cold.
>
> Depends on your definitions.  Alcohol takes blood from your core and
> sends it to the skin.  You feel warmer and if your core has heat to
> spare that's fine.  If it doesn't you've must made it worse.
>
> Yours,
> David
>

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David McNeely