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    Quote Originally Posted by andyrlb View Post
    I kinda agree, I grew up in France and detest wine .
    Sure, it's not a prerequisite of growing up in France that you've got to love wine, just as it isn't with whisky, in Scotland. You like what you like. But whatever it is, it's a good idea not to become addicted to it.

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    Blue Nun was piss that's true. Nun's piss probably.

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyrlb View Post
    I hold living in France responsible for my father becoming a raving alcoholic. He was a Routier ( lorry driver) , I’d often go off with him and lunchtimes were a huge affair in the truck stops , you’d have tables of about 20 truckers sat together all eating from a fixed menu accompanied by jugs and jugs of red table wine , thought nothing of it back then but can you imagine nowadays.
    Those places still exist and are alive and well. The 'Les Routiers' truck stops, when done well, have always been legendary and epitomise what's great about French food and wine, stripped of all the pretension and snobbery.

    As such, whenever we're in France, those are the first places we head to for lunch. Last time I was in one, you could get a fabulous 3 (sometimes 4) course meal, with at least one bottle of wine, and coffee included, for less than 13€ a head!

    You can easily pay more than that here for a plastic McDonalds.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Blue Nun was piss that's true. Nun's piss probably.

    Black Tower now that was a good drop.
    Yup, that's true. As back then was Mateus Rosé

    However, if you try what's posing as such now, under the same label, it *IS* veritable piss!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyrlb View Post
    Asti Spumante
    The funny thing Andy, is that *proper* Asti Spumate (if you like a sparkling sweet wine) is lovely, as indeed is proper Lambrusco, if you taste the stuff that they drink in Italy! Trouble is, the cheap cack they export to the UK [to fuel drunken 'hen nights' and such like], posing as such, gives both a bad name.

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    Wish I'd known about "Les Routiers" on my last drive around France. I remember after driving for hours, and all the restaurants having a sign on the door saying "ferme", and motorway services prices taking the piss, we ended up using McDonalds a couple of times. Well, we'll know better next time.

    Plenty of quality wines available these days for not much money, and I'm still not convinced about this "kids and wine" thing yet, so may I suggest that anyone out there with young children who haven't tried wine yet give them a small amount to try, and describe the reaction on their little faces.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Wish I'd known about "Les Routiers" on my last drive around France. I remember after driving for hours, and all the restaurants having a sign on the door saying "ferme", and motorway services prices taking the piss, we ended up using McDonalds a couple of times. Well, we'll know better next time.
    This is what you need, mate: http://www.relais-routiers.com/

    Then simply plan in advance where to go. When Del and I are driving to France on holiday, I'll plot a route to our destination deliberately passing through the best ones to eat! Some of them even do cheap, but more than adequate overnight accommodation. Do bear in mind however, that as with anything else, there are good and bad places.

    But for good value hotels, we generally use Logis: https://www.logishotels.com/en/

    Plenty of quality wines available these days for not much money, and I'm still not convinced about this "kids and wine" thing yet, so may I suggest that anyone out there with young children who haven't tried wine yet give them a small amount to try, and describe the reaction on their little faces.
    In terms of the former, yes more than ever, although there's still some shocking stuff sold in supermarkets for around a fiver (and less), which simply doesn't compare with wines available from specialist retailers, for only a few pounds more.

    Honestly, there can be a MASSIVE difference in quality between wines costing a fiver, or 7 or 8 quid. That £2-3 extra is often the difference between drinking something no more than mediocre (or worse), and something truly great!

    As for young children drinking wine, as I said, it's context and what you're used to that's important. In that respect, I'd only give them a small amount of red wine, diluted with water, which ameliorates the acidity and makes it more palatable for them, as long as it's taken with food.

    It's coincidentally, however, that acidity which makes it compliment certain foods - and which is why if you want to taste wine properly, that's how to drink it.

    A lot of kids these days hate vegetables, but that's only because their parents haven't introduced them to the flavour properly (or perhaps don't know how to cook them right in the first place), and it's the same with wine. That's why I didn't spit it out when my mum first gave me some, all those years ago!

    I'm also a great believer in that if you introduce kids at an early age to a small amount of alcohol, rather than treat is as taboo until they're 18, they're less likely to abuse it later as adults. For that reason, unlike most British kids, alcohol was never a big deal for me (as it was never forbidden), which is why I didn't go running to the first pub to get pissed, once I was legally old enough to drink!

    And it's probably why I've grown up to enjoy alcohol in moderation, and not become addicted to it (or indeed anything else for that matter).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    And if it tasted as bad to you as cabbage, then why did you persevere with it?
    If didn't say it tasted as bad as cabbage ...

    Nothing in this world tastes as bad as cabbage

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol - it's not just tobacco though; it's the 'flavour' of 1000s of chemical poisons, too (unless you smoke roll-ups)!
    You have to know the right brand to get you started - after that, the rest is child's play ....


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