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Southern French wine growers turn violent
Big News Network ^ | 21st April, 2005

Posted on 04/21/2005 12:45:19 PM PDT by lizol

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To: lizol
They can keep it. I like California, Washington and German wines. Friggin frogs can keep their over-priced Champagne and Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
21 posted on 04/21/2005 1:05:20 PM PDT by KurtAZ (So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away)
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To: kaktuskid

IIRC it was the Austrian wines that had antifreeze added- did the French do it too?


22 posted on 04/21/2005 1:11:12 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (End dependence on foreign oil- put a Slowpoke in your basement)
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To: lizol

"The demonstrators were angry that, having cut their production, growers in northern regions boosted theirs, thus reducing wine prices across France."

LOL! They're upset that their attempt at colluding to inflate the price of wine didn't work!

They wanted to make more for working less, but the other wineries were willing to work harder to make more money.

Their solution? Have the government force the other wineries to stop producing so much, and have the EU buy more wine to subsidize their industry at inflated prices.

Yet the French wonder why their economy isn't growing, and are resorting to wanting to sell arms to the Chineese to prop up their economy.

If this is the kind of leadership that the French are going to show in the EU, it's clear that they EU will not become an economic powerhouse to rival the US.


23 posted on 04/21/2005 1:16:26 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: NoClones
"...A demonstration which began peacefully in Narbonne by some 10,000 growers seeking more help from Paris and Brussels erupted into a clash with police, the Independent reported Thursday.

They must have been swatting each other with their purses!

24 posted on 04/21/2005 1:16:58 PM PDT by albee (A paranoid schizophrenic is somebody who just found out what is going on.)
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To: lizol

French wine makers could sell a whole lot more wine in the US if the elitists in the blue states washed their socks more often.


25 posted on 04/21/2005 1:25:54 PM PDT by Tacis ( SEAL THE FRIGGEN BORDER!!!)
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To: Bacon Man; Hap; Allegra; humblegunner

Can you imagine?

"Ze feelthy Americains are not drinking enough wine, oui? Zen I say we throw a fit! We stamp our feet, we gnash our teeth, we wear our berets at a tilt, we stub our Gauloises out on ze sidewalk! A bas la lanterne, putains! How you like zem apples, eh?"


26 posted on 04/21/2005 1:28:25 PM PDT by Xenalyte (It's a Zen thing, you know, like how many babies fit in a tire.)
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To: stevio

Its made in Newton, Iowa. The washing machine family and the dairy family are cousins.


27 posted on 04/21/2005 1:36:31 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Sax; stevio

The preferred term is "le chaudron."


28 posted on 04/21/2005 1:38:33 PM PDT by Xenalyte (It's a Zen thing, you know, like how many babies fit in a tire.)
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To: Xenalyte

That's basically my view: Pitch a fit because (at least primarily because) your wine isn't sufficiently popular with buyers to justify your economic existence.

Look. If I ran, say, a muffler shop, and people didn't buy my mufflers, I'd go find something else to do. I wouldn't riot and demand that other muffler shops raise their prices (and cut supplies of mufflers) so that I could survive artificially.


29 posted on 04/21/2005 1:40:01 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Xenalyte

or mauvaise herbe?


30 posted on 04/21/2005 1:42:12 PM PDT by Sax
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To: stevio

Maytag's home office is in Newton, IA

but I hear they may be soon mfg washing machines overseas???


31 posted on 04/21/2005 1:49:07 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: kellynla

Hopefully not France.


32 posted on 04/21/2005 1:51:04 PM PDT by stevio (Remember 9/11 by buying a 1911)
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To: lizol

If the French winegrowers think they have problems now, wait until the Muslims take over their country and close down the entire wine and alchohol industries!


33 posted on 04/21/2005 2:09:14 PM PDT by Gritty ("Europeans need to ally with blue staters/Canadians and draw a cordon bleu around Jesusland -M Steyn)
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To: stevio

THere is also some kind of Oregon cheese that's a winner, too. Handmade, too.


34 posted on 04/21/2005 3:38:23 PM PDT by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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To: lizol

Dang. All those grapes.

You know, the French do have some good wines. But the Sicilians. Man, could I use some private label Sicilian about now. And, of course, they never export their best.

Sigh.


35 posted on 04/21/2005 3:39:54 PM PDT by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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To: kellynla

A plumber/washing machine repair man (who's also an old friend) told me last year to keep the Maytags that I have right now, and to never get rid of them. He's seen much higher failure rates on the new models.


36 posted on 04/21/2005 3:43:31 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: July 4th

I bought the one we have now in 1989 new...no problems yet(knock on wood)LOL


37 posted on 04/21/2005 3:52:18 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: Xenalyte; Bacon Man; Hap; humblegunner
"Ze feelthy Americains are not drinking enough wine, oui? Zen I say we throw a fit! We stamp our feet, we gnash our teeth, we wear our berets at a tilt, we stub our Gauloises out on ze sidewalk! A bas la lanterne, putains! How you like zem apples, eh?"

"And zen just to reeealy show zem, we don't take a bath for weeks so we steenk real good and offend their sensitive American noses!

Oh wait...we do zat already, anyway..."

38 posted on 04/22/2005 11:13:53 AM PDT by Allegra (The Badgers are Back!)
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To: lizol
Wine growers in southern France... are turning violent.

Perhaps if they get really mad, they'll burn their own vineyards. That should drive the price up.

39 posted on 04/22/2005 11:24:51 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: lizol

The French make wine?


40 posted on 04/22/2005 11:30:29 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
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