Schools get call to save French wine makers (SCHADENFREUDE UPDATE)

The Sunday Times ^ | July 25, 2004 | Matthew Campbell

[MadIvan]

And people used to criticise President Reagan for supposedly re-classifying ketchup as a vegetable.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[snopercod]

Have they stopped using cow blood to color their red wines yet?

[ShadowDancer]

by a parliamentary commission that also recommended the reclassification of wine as food

When they start stuffing whole grapes in a Cabernet bottle then it might fly.

[OSHA]

If they bathed they could use the stuff to bathe in if they bathed.

[woofer]

Complicating the effort to turn wine into food is another national campaign —

Ivan,

Wine isn't food?

[dighton]

... French class in The Belles of St. Trinian's.

[Exodus22]

I think of wine as food...so much so that I had it (and it alone) for dinner last night.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

They need to concentrate on the influence that Islam is having on their national identity.

[ladylib]

Wonderful movie.

[nwrep]

The French use dried cow blood in their wines. That is one more reason not to drink it. Drink US wines instead.

[I got the rope]

What?

[GnL]

Not to be too technical here, but blood is not used for color, it is used as a fining agent, to soften tannins in red wines (to reduce astringency). In the U.S., we often use egg whites or gelatin for the same purpose.

[MadIvan]

I'll say this much, if they're going to classify wine as food, I don't want to hear any arguments about beer. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Tacis]

The unemployment problem in the French vineyards can easily be solved by simply reducing the workweek from 35 hours to 28, maybe, 29 hours.

That doesn't solve the larger problems, the demand for French wine. French wine is good for washing your socks. Thus, demand can increase by increasing those activities that dirty more socks. There's where the solution is.

As always, we can only hope that the French get exactly what they deserve!

[demkicker]

The schools are spending the entire first week on Lesson # 1: Teaching the children how to properly point their noses in the air while looking down at anyone who is not French.

[Ben Chad]

No French wine allowed in this house.

[kcar]

I thought Chirac has made them the world's most prodigious whine-exporting nations. They use a little too much sour grapes though.

[blueminnesota]

Maybe less people are buying wine because the population is MORE AND MORE muslim.

[woofer]

Ivan,

Beer is food.

Schlitz wasn't known as the breakfast of champions for nothing.