The Lemon Fool

bungeejumper wrote:

CliffEdge wrote:The first wine making in the world was started up in Luton on the Chiltern hills by Arthur Jones in 1623. It was sold in pint bottles to the Duke of Bedford whose great great... grandson still has some in his cellar.

Not so fast. Young Arthur's claim to be the originator of mass-produced wine faced stiff competition from the Rhineland, where a 16th century German nightclub called the Blue Nun had already set up its own bottling operation, using the original metric system which of course was itself based on the Pope's inside leg measurement. Unlike the oafish peasants from Luton, the Germans had long favoured the slimmer and more elegant LiliMarlene bottles, which could hold less.

The Thirty Years War which promptly broke out was finally settled by the Council of Gewürztraminer, which set up a blind tasting panel that everybody agreed was the most interesting thing to have happened since the Diet of Worms. And which unanimously determined that an Arthur pint was better than Nun.

Budge up a bit, CliffEdge, I'm sure there's room for both of us on that pillory bench.

BJ

doolally wrote:

scrumpyjack wrote:
NO NO, what have you been drinking? The Romans and Greeks loved wine over 2,000 years ago. Amphoras of wine were shipped all over the Med.

Amphora.... is that metric or imperial?
doolally

scrumpyjack wrote:All the Roman measures of capacity were founded on weight, and thus the amphora was originally the space occupied by •eighty pounds of wine (Festus, s.v.).

XFool wrote:

scrumpyjack wrote:All the Roman measures of capacity were founded on weight, and thus the amphora was originally the space occupied by •eighty pounds of wine (Festus, s.v.).

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