Painterly bundle of golden grain beside a foaming wooden beer mug on amber.

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Friar Tuck

This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our maker and glory to his bounty by learning about... beer!

— Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves  ·  1991

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker gives beer the grand language of religious praise, presenting brewing as a higher purpose for grain than ordinary eating. The pause before 'beer' supplies the comic reveal. A lesson in making a drink suddenly sounds like a declaration of sacred duty.

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