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2007-05-29 Europe

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Posted by Jackal 2007-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 LOL Houmors is return to la Belle.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-29 03:26|| 2007-05-29 03:26|| Front Page Top

#2 wine terrorists
Ohforgawdsake. How long til the baguette bakers and truffle hunters follow suit?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-05-29 08:12|| 2007-05-29 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Oregon White Truffles cost about $60/lb compared to French Whites Truffles at about $1800/oz.

The French will not allow Oregon Truffles to be called Truffles nor allow them to be sold with another name.

Seems the best French chefs can not tell the difference in a taste test.

Posted by 3dc 2007-05-29 09:57|| 2007-05-29 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 It seems like Sarkozy will have to confront these guys, or he will go the same way as his predecessors. They have gotten their way before, so by using the process of inductive reasoning, they can again achieve success. I wish Sarkozy well, and hope that he does not back down. They have thrown down the gauntlet.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-05-29 10:29|| 2007-05-29 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Vinicultural Terrorists. Only in France.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-05-29 10:34|| 2007-05-29 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Life imitates Scrappleface?

Posted by xbalanke 2007-05-29 11:49|| 2007-05-29 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Should take a page from the U.S and proposed making ethanol out of it.

Posted by DoDo 2007-05-29 12:07|| 2007-05-29 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 To the best of my very fuzzy recollections, the corsican separatist movement - initially the Flnc, which eventually splintered into various antagonist movements all to happy to gun each others down, all very militarized (see this, scroll down for effect) and active (up to 600 bombings a years in the mid 90's, no, you read that right) - started that way.
IIRC, the movement was launched after a bloody stand off at the home of a corsican winemaker, caused by resentment of native corsicans about the (relative, Corsica is only 250 000) massive arrival of pieds-noirs (french algerian refugees).

This is most probably just boast and huffing, but agricultors are a very powerful lobby in France, and their "demonstrations" tend to be very violent when they go berserk, fishers, vinemakers and all, their riots are noteworthy (and usually unpunished, see the "powerful lobby" note above).

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-05-29 15:08|| 2007-05-29 15:08|| Front Page Top

#9 3dc, what's your favourite site/shop to buy truffles from?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-29 16:34|| 2007-05-29 16:34|| Front Page Top

#10 When France goes Islamic they'll be out of a job. Perhaps they should support Sarkozy now rather than playing at being radicals.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-05-29 19:54|| 2007-05-29 19:54|| Front Page Top

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