Posted on 10/31/2006 2:03:45 PM PST by MarMema
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Didn't the elite in Russia just confiscate the wine for themselves? I'm sure I read that.
I got horribly sick drinking Yugoslav wine, once. Of course, now there's no Yugoslavia ...
A new thread in honor of your post on the other one.
Eagle project done last Sat, btw. Hope yours is getting closer...
Congratulations! Bill's hoping to get Star by the end of the year, but he has to finish two badges on which he's not making much progress currently. It's no big deal if it takes him until spring; he's only 12!
Oldest daughter finished her Girl Scouts Silver Award project, with a week to spare. I think she inherited Last Minute Syndrome from me :-).
If Georgian wine makes it to North Carolina, we'll have to try some. Maybe I'll look for some on the Internet, get it for Der Prinz's birthday.
I think about a year ago Russia banned Polish food, also Ukrainian meat, Norwegian salmon, Finnish eggs, Moldovan wine and God only knows what else... Everything is connected to policy. Norwegian salmon is too polluted, Scandinavian ecological standards are not enough for Russia which barely has any standards. That is because they argue about territorial waters around some small Norwegian island. I mean that Russians don't respect Norwegian territorial waters rights.
What will the Russians eat when they have banned everything? Wheat.
It leaves the Russians without much to eat or drink.
Is Moldovan wine any good? My mother probably knows; she went on a Danube cruise this spring.
Bill has a lot of time, (you're right) and is doing great for 12!
Congrats to your daughter on the Silver award!
LOL!
This reminds me of an occasion a couple of weeks ago, when I made some soup with chickpeas and wheat kernels. Apparently the wheat had been in the pantry too long, because little black specks floated to the top of the pot. "Oh, those are six-legged insects!" said my 2-year-old. "They're crunchy!"
I skimmed the Crunchy Insects off the top of the soup and didn't mention them to my husband :-).
Georgia was considered the breadbasket of the USSR, because in Russia they cannot grow anything worthwhile, except wheat.
I have heard that not really... But cheap and was popular in Russia.
Thanks for the link! A few bottles of Unpronounceable Dry Red would be a change from Gethsemani Monastery fudge for his birthday. I'll get him the fudge for Christmas, instead :-).
Mom probably didn't drink Moldovan wine, then. My brother lived in Germany and Italy for about 10 years, and my parents got used to good wine!
Well, Georgian wines are not that bad - try Khvanchkara.
Thanks! How do you say that? :-). It would be a change from Australian.
[Hvan-ch-karA], stress on the last A.
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