Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry about violating my self-imposed rule about off-topic posts, but those LUGgers who have met me will know that food and beer and extremely important to me ;-) As any civilized beer drinker knows, Belgium brews the BEST beer in the world, and there is no purity law a la Germany. In fact, it is the absence of such a law which allows Belgian brewers to make all the wonderful, weird varieties that exist there. Cheese is regulated in France (there is an Appelation Controlée system like for wine). McDonalds is the same everywhere (and it has its place too, particularly when you are driving home from a soccer game with a hungry 10-year old) but in Belgium you can have a beer with your Big Mac. Nathan Rich Lahrson wrote: > Yes, and Germany has strict laws about brewing beer, hundreds > of years on the books. Here in the US, there's no regulation and > the beer is sludge. Also, cheese, we have Velvita, not a top contenter > for the cheese gourmet. Then there's MacDonald's hamburgers.... > well you have THAT as well. Are they regulated differently in > Europe than the US? - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman