Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 5/20/00 1:48:10 PM, mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com writes: << As we have French people here I'd like to know something. I read the French had never heard of Dijon mustard. Could that be true? An American invention it said. I know Dijon exists but do they make mustard of note there? >> I heard that dijon mustard was at the center of a recent trade dispute between the U.S. and France -- apparently one of the ways the U.S. was going to punish France over some perceived trade infraction was to tax the living daylights out of Dijon. The story I heard said that restaurant owners were up in arms because they needed the stuff for certain recipes . . . Bob (the things we remember . . .) McEowen