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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!

— Friar Tuck  ·  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

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