Makes a change from "Bad food Britain".  :-)

It seems apart from having the best beer (ale) in the world we also invented 
champagne.

"It is the most quintessentially French drink, and the pride of a whole 
nation. But there could be consternation across the Channel after a claim that 
champagne was invented by an Englishman. Born in 1614, self-taught West 
Country scientist Christopher Merrett came from an area better known for 
producing cider. However, records show he devised two techniques that were 
fundamental to making champagne decades before Benedictine monk Dom Perignon, 
who is usually associated with the invention of the ultimate luxury drink. He 
used techniques from the cider industry to control the second fermentation 
which makes wine fizzy and - crucially - invented the stronger glass needed to 
prevent the bottle exploding. Merrett, also spelled Merret, gave a paper to 
the Royal Society in 1662 describing how adding 'vast quantities of sugar and 
molasses' to French wine made it taste 'brisk and sparkling'. That was more 
than 30 years before Dom Perignon's work at the Abbey of Hautvillers at 
Epernay marked the 'official' beginning of a multi-million-pound industry 
which the French have jealously protected ever since."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1062553/Pardon-Messieurs-champagne-BRITISH-invention-claims-new-research.html

or http://tinyurl.com/47txs5

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Pete Wilkins wrote:
> Makes a change from "Bad food Britain".  :-)
> 
> It seems apart from having the best beer (ale) in the world we also invented 
> champagne.

Here, here.  This is where the UK excels, but you need to seek good beer 
out.  I believe we have more breweries in the UK than Belgium now.

I'm not all that keen on drinking establishments in the rest of Europe.

Lager sales in the UK were down 10% last year, whereas real ale was down 1%.

Pete Wilkins said 

> It seems apart from having the best beer (ale)

yep, but johnny bloody forrinner doesnt understand it.

> in the world we also invented 
> champagne.

could we end up getting champagne labelled with credits to UK, would be
nice :-)
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>> It seems apart from having the best beer (ale)
>
> yep, but johnny bloody forrinner doesnt understand it.
>
>> in the world we also invented
>> champagne.
>
> could we end up getting champagne labelled with credits to UK, would be
> nice :-)
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Insist that the name be changed to something English instead of methode 
champenoise.  Shall we come up with the proper words?

Giusi said 

> Insist that the name be changed to something English instead of methode 
> champenoise.  Shall we come up with the proper words?

roast beef method?
vin anglo saxon style?
Waterloo wine?

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Mike............ wrote:
> Giusi said 
> 
> 
>>Insist that the name be changed to something English instead of methode 
>>champenoise.  Shall we come up with the proper words?
> 
> 
> roast beef method?
> vin anglo saxon style?
> Waterloo wine?
> 
I prefer the Waterloo wine. They have never forgiven us for it and never 
will  :-))

Dave

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> Mike............ wrote:
>> Giusi said
>>>Insist that the name be changed to something English instead of methode 
>>>champenoise.  Shall we come up with the proper words?
>>
>>
>> roast beef method?
>> vin anglo saxon style?
>> Waterloo wine?
>>
> I prefer the Waterloo wine. They have never forgiven us for it and never 
> will  :-))

Oh yes, and so perfect for celebrations. lol!

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>> roast beef method?
>> vin anglo saxon style?
>> Waterloo wine?
>> 
> I prefer the Waterloo wine. They have never forgiven us for it and never 
> will  :-))

Chavpagne?

Sorry.

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>>> roast beef method?
>>> vin anglo saxon style?
>>> Waterloo wine?
>>>
>> I prefer the Waterloo wine. They have never forgiven us for it and never
>> will  :-))
>
> Chavpagne?

> Richard

ROFL!

Richard Dixon said 

> Chavpagne?

nice. Lets move on to renaming individual wines by the rules of real ale.
This means the activities of the typical drinker often preceeded by "old".

"Lewis Hamilton" or maybe "Boy Racer"
"Old Broker" maybe with a tear off "r"?
"Short Seller"
"Banker" I will not embellish that one, how about "Old Capitalism" and an
export version "confused republican"?
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Pete Wilkins said 

>> I prefer the Waterloo wine. They have never forgiven us for it and never 
>> will  :-))
> 
> Oh yes, and so perfect for celebrations. lol!

they say Churchill made instructions for his state funeral to ensure De
Gaulle arrived via Waterloo :-) Possibly.
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Mike............ wrote:
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> 
>>>I prefer the Waterloo wine. They have never forgiven us for it and never 
>>>will  :-))

Davenport said that, not Pete Wilkins.

>>Oh yes, and so perfect for celebrations. lol!
> 
> 
> they say Churchill made instructions for his state funeral to ensure De
> Gaulle arrived via Waterloo :-) Possibly.

And so he should  :-)

Dave

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> "Short Seller"

"Short Cellar" would be better.
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