It's an amusing truth that, not so long ago, the rich and useless classes in England really thought that their completely literate butlers and housekeepers would not know that there were spirits in the bottle if they spelled the name backwards on the label, and that way, they wouldn't get into them. Of course, they would drink it anyway, and (in the words of more than one person before me) top it up with eniru.

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