Originally Posted by flstf

My wife and I were at Octoberfest in Munich a few years ago and were sitting at a table with a group of Germans singing and listening to the oomp pah music while the beer flowed freely. I made the mistake of trying to keep up with the Germans and my wife (who is from Bohemia). The next morning my wife told me that she managed to walk me back to the hotel, but I did not remember much. She said that she and the Germans thought it was funny that the American could get drunk on just beer, after all it is just liquid bread.