Originally Posted by
Picchio Special
You're really going to have to work to explain that fact that France is hard to fathom as other than a wine and butter zone, BTW.
In a classic case of "what did the Romans ever do to us?" they covered every sunny south facing hill in the bloody country with grapes. The Gauls were a beer (and mede!) culture at first. Glad the idea caught on, or else I wouldn't have been drinking that lovely Bordeaux yesterday.