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Old 06-23-2003, 07:55 PM
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The French drink more Scotch whisky than Cognac. This is because of a wine louse that wiped out all the French vineyards in 1880 and Scotch manufacturers took this opportunity to flood France with Scotch. And that has been the case ever since.
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