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China Was Drinking Wine 9,000 Years Ago
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 12-7-2004
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 12/06/2004 5:20:45 PM PST by blam
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:20:47 PM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:21:18 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
China also invented noodles before the Italians.
To: blam
Here's to th' Chines--*HIC*
Here's to th' Chine--*HIC*
Here's to th'--*HIC*
Ah hell...here's to South Koreans.
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:22:53 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
To: blam
China was drinking wine 9,000 years ago They must be middling blotto by now...
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:24:11 PM PST
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(Where perfect equality exists, there is no triumph over adversity - How is that a Utopia?)
To: blam
Great. Maybe they can give the Sonoma valley a run for their money.....exclusively distributed at WalMart.....
To: AmericanMade1776
Wine & noodles... sounds like dinner!
To: blam
China was drinking wine 9,000 years ago They must be middling blotto by now...
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:24:39 PM PST
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(Where perfect equality exists, there is no triumph over adversity - How is that a Utopia?)
To: blam
Was it made by prisoners?
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:25:53 PM PST
by
iconoclast
(Conservative, not partisan.)
To: blam
I hear that the wine was assertive, but not overbearing, with notes of rutabaga and jicama at mid-palate and finishing with a strong overtone of gumout.
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:25:58 PM PST
by
speedy
To: Lurking Libertarian
To: blam
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:26:24 PM PST
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(Where perfect equality exists, there is no triumph over adversity - How is that a Utopia?)
To: blam
Chinese wine sucks. Way too sweet and not enough alcohol.
To: AmericanMade1776
But ice cream was invented by Italy.
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:27:13 PM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: blam
At least we know the deceased died happy.
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:27:30 PM PST
by
xJones
To: blam
Does this mean they are French? Funny, they don't look French.
Series, if they have been drinking wine that long you'd think they would be mellowed out by now.
To: blam
The team found and analyzed chemical traces left by the fermented drinks on pottery shards.
Ok, I cant POSSIBLY think of a means of checking old pottery for trace elements of win as being an economically viable occupation - so I'm suspecting this was funded by a grant.
So lets think about the justification for such a grant....
[swhhhhh - sound of someone toking]
And then we will tell them we are looking for wine on old pieces of clay. [laughter] Yeah that will be good.....
[sigh]
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posted on
12/06/2004 5:28:15 PM PST
by
taxcontrol
(People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
To: blam
1,000,000,000 bottles of wine on the wall 1,000,000,000 bottles of wine, if one of those Chinese ancestors of Mulan drink a bottle of wine 999,999,999 on the wall!
To: speedy
To: Flying Circus
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