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“I have a feeling you’re gonn’a make me pissed off at another faction of life I never considered until now ...”
Every so often the news media rediscovers the fact that certain so-called Italian and other European food and beverage products are fakes and counterfeits. I recall back in 1967-1968 I was learning how you had to avoid Chianti wines, Italian balsamic vinegars, olive oils, and Italian Parma hams because of the fakes. In particular, the Chianti wines bottled in those fancy bottles often with the basketry on the bottles were notorious for being adulterated with everything from low quality wines of uncertain origins to oxblood. Buyers of Chianti wines were cautioned to purchase only those with the neck labels signifying they were controlled by a consorzio as being true Chianti Classico. Like perennial plants, the corruption in these industries is discovered anew in the news articles from year to year for more than a half century.