The French PR Machine Crashes

Laura's Weekly E-Blast! ^ | 03/03/03 | Laura Ingraham

[8mmMauser]

You might appreciate this little ditty taught to me by little Kabili twins, (parents had fled Algerian radical Islamist persecution).

They learned it at school where we lived in the Vendee. (That's another story. There are still isolated pockets of brave and decent ones here and there.)

Frere Jacques,
Jacques Chirac,
Ou vas tu, trou de cul?
Tu vas a la messe,
Chasser des gonzeses

ding dang dong.

[river rat]

"..................remarks about French horror over her use of propylene glycol."

"This is the result of a guilty national conscience. Some years ago,
some French wine producers adulterated their product with *eth*ylene
glycol, which has a sweet taste. (Since it is not detected as added
sugar, it evaded the checks that the industry imposed in order to make
sure their wine is pure.)"

"Unfortunately, ethylene glycol, which is also used in antifreeze, is a poison: the kidneys convert it to oxalic
acid, which destroys the kidneys. Leaking sweet antifreeze regularly kills many cats and dogs each year."

"It was a great scandal and embarrassment to the French."

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I couldn't find the original news report of the scandal...only this reference to the scandal...

My google search string just wasn't good enough I guess..

Semper Fi

[FBD]

M Kehoe: "To further friendly relations with the French and France (yes, ya'all got some minority populations that could cause big trouble), I will not insult the French today"

Yer a good person M Kehoe...there's always tomorrow!

"Ah, the French; the more you kiss their A$$, the more they $#it on your head!"--Red Gold

Here's another little something I learned about the French recently---
During the Iranian hostage crisis, the French closed the gates to our fleeing diplomats. Locked them out.

They don't deserve your charitable treatment, and you can rest assured they will not return it in kind.

FRegards

[FBD]

I hope this is right:

Je faire parler non français!

Heh,heh! ;^D

FRegards

[Leisler]

[gridlock]

was it the same place Fox rented for Joe Millionaire?

No, the Joe Millionaire chateau was really just a large fancy French house. The Iron Chef chateau was built on top of a castle, and was about 40 feet in the air. A quantum leap in opulence. And this house was still occupied by some useless Duke and Duchess, and obviously not for rent. Seeing something like that makes you glad to be an American, where we dispensed with such nonsense some time ago.

[gridlock]

There was a similar scandal in Germany about 1978-80. The German Wine Purity Law (why do the words "German" and "Purity Law" in the same sentence send a shiver down the spine?) prevented the use of sugars, so the winemakers substituted ethylene glycol to sweeten the wines. This process was not limited to the inexpensive brands, IIRC. German wines took a major hit in the market, from which they never really recovered.

They test for Ethylene Glycol in German wines now, but they are still reletively inexpensive. But I just pulled the last German bottle from the rack this week, though. Better Portugese wines are an adequate substitute, especially on the second bottle.

[FBD]

Thanks for that info, (scandel about winemakers substituting ethylene glycol to sweeten the wines)

That's enough for me to swear off both French and German wines...let alone their traitorous behaviour.

FRegards,
FBD