The availability of cheap, plentiful whiskey was one key to the extensive use of spirituous liquor by so many Americans in the early nineteenth century; another key was the American diet.

• 十九世纪早期，很多美国人大量饮用酒精饮料，一个原因是当时有很多便宜的威士忌；另一个原因是美国人的饮食习惯。