Thanks for an entertaining topic
@major bill !
Personally I don't think anything has changed.
Since the dawn of written history, the Ladies have been experts at hiding anything they wish to hide ....
Better yet, they are experts at "rebranding".
Their Dad's moonshine became socially acceptable if it was called a "special tonic", "medicine" , ect.
I guess the best best example would be from the old 1970's TV program
The Waltons.
Two elderly 1930's Virginia aristocratic spinsters were still making their Dad's moonshine and selling it as
"the Recipe".