I remember reading quite some time ago in a book about the Soviet army of how desperately bored soldiers who were denied access to alcohol coped by resorting to a trick using shoe polish and bread.
I didn't know how that would work, so I Googled on "shoe polish bread alcohol" and the first link that came up was this. (http://blogs.salon.com/0001476/2002/10/18.html)
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Date: 2004-01-09 01:57 am (UTC)I didn't know how that would work, so I Googled on "shoe polish bread alcohol" and the first link that came up was this. (http://blogs.salon.com/0001476/2002/10/18.html)