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France is a major wine producing nation. Wine CAN be
considered simply as fermented grape juice and therefore
made anywhere that grapes will grow. The French do not
share this view and will if you allow them, go on at length
about tradition and particularly "Terroir". This is the effect
that
the environment, particularly the land itself has on
wine quality.
A quick check of French wine producing regions shows that
WW1 battle fronts run right through them. Now, it's
difficult to imagine that something so important as "terroir"
would be resistant to the effects of total war. No, if
French "terroir" is indeed superior then it must, in part,
have been created by the unique mix of materials spread
across and sometimes deeply inserted into France by the
enormous military forces once deployed there. Perhaps
without just the right amount of Lee-Enfield rifle oil
washing out into the Marne river, French Champagne would
be inferior. Even distant regions would have been subject
to the movements of millions of men and horses.
Logically, if the two world wars had any effect on French
land, and that land is vital for the superiority of French
wine then Britain, Germany and the various allied nations
are directly responsible. To acknowledge this, a small
percentage of wine sales should be directed to those
nations as an expression of the famous French gratitude.
Perhaps the Italians could get a small cut as proxies for the
Roman contribution?
English Wine Bordeaux Restaurant
https://www.telegra...had-a-riot-yet.html
[bs0u0155, Dec 04 2018]
[link]
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// an expression of the famous French gratitude. // |
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There has to be a first time for everything, presumably. |
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//a first time for everything,// |
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Maybe "famous" was a poor choice. "Conspicuous" might have
been more appropriate. |
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Perhaps the reason [8th] is so unfamiliar with French
gratitude is that he only talks to them after he's arrived,
rather than after he's left. |
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We don't talk to them at all, because as soon as they see us they run away. |
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Then again, perhaps the Stahlhelm, and the black uniform with the Sig runes, aren't the right thing to wear when driving a Panzer III westward across the Meuse. It could just be fashion criticism. |
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It's not the Stahlhelm that puts them off - it's where you wear
it. The short "belt" that you replaced with 4ft of elastic is
meant to be a chinstrap. |
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But when Sturton gave it to us, he distinctly said ... oh, never mind. |
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So what your telling us is the Aztecs actually had the right
idea, watering your fields with blood improves the quality of
your produce over simply using water. |
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So we should all start building step pyramids? |
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I suspect Sturton actually said "I got this for _you_,
knobhead", not "your". |
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Ahhhh. He doesn't enunciate very clearly when he's drunk, i.e. all the time. |
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// start building step pyramids // |
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Yes it can; consider the eupsychian movement. |
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<considers the eupsychian movement/> |
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OK, done that ... now what ? |
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//the eupsychian movement// They were never the same
since they replaced the drummer. |
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Not a single Terroir-ist pun... |
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Apparently England does now do a fairly good white
wine in Sussex what with this global warming. |
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Problem is...with all this global warming Sussex will be
below sea level. |
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//it should be viable for Britain to produce an equivalent
wine-like brewed product// In 2018, an English n.v.
Champagne beat all the French n.v.'s in a blind tasting. The
French were very pissed off. |
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Yes, but they get very pissed off if an Englishman beats them at Stone, Paper, Scissors. It's a "Being beaten - yet again - by les sales Anglais" thing. It's probably genetic. |
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//Not a single Terroir-ist pun... // |
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That is a valid criticism. |
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//it should be viable for Britain to produce an equivalent
wine-like brewed product,// |
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It's already very possible. Sadly, unlike France all the
wine growing parts of England are worth quite a lot of
money so the costs have to be passed off to the
consumers... in France <link> |
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// Britain to produce an equivalent wine-like brewed product // |
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// Britain to produce an equivalent wine-like brewed product
// There is, in fact, a thing (or rather a legal definition)
called "British wine", which is used for "wine" made in Britain
from grape concentrate. It is as vile as it sounds. Do not
confuse it with English wine, made from English-grown grapes,
which is expensive and scarce but often stunningly good. |
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// It is as vile as it sounds. // |
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While we respect your expansive knowledge of viticulture, and your even more expansive family cellars, we feel obliged to contradict you on this point. It is definitely not as vile as it sounds. It is much, much worse. |
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Those who suffered in the 1970's from the sensory assault inflicted by a product retailed under the brand name "Santa Maria", a British "wine" manufactured by Greenall & Whitley Ltd. (later revealed to be a shadow company of the Tube Alloys operation at Rhydymwyn, using the same equipment- without cleaning it) will gnash their dentures in rage (none of them have any natural teeth left, as the liquid dissolved dental enamel, amalgam fillings, gold crowns and even PTFE) at the mention of the name. |
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Remaining stocks had to be destroyed by high-temperature incineration after the UK signed up to the UN Convention on Chemical Weapons. |
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//Remaining stocks had to be destroyed// We've only got
your word for that. You did seem _awfully_ willing to handle
the disposal. |
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According to the terms of the treaty they "had to be destroyed". That doesn't mean they actually were destroyed; all that the bloke from the MoD wanted was a nice empty warehouse to show, and a chitty saying "Removed for destruction, qty. of chemical weaponry as discussed, van hire, assorted buckets, clean & make good, remove rubbish from site. Paid in full" |
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The remarkable thing about Santa Maria was that it was the
only product marketed as "red wine" that was actually
effective at removing red wine stains from shirts, tablecloths,
livers... and indeed red wine. |
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