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French Wine Terrorists Are At it Again
From time: “Too much wine, it is known, can cause violent behavior. But few have gone as far as the grape growers of France’s Languedoc-Roussillon region, the world’s biggest wine-growing area by...
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Beaujolais Nouveau Wines to be in Plastic Bottles Because it’s Good for the...
From the Boisset Family Estates press release: “…….”This year, Boisset Family Estates is the first winery ever to announce that all Beaujolais Nouveau wines imported to North America will be packaged...
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A French Baking School that Cares about the Untouchables of India
Tucked away in Chennai, India (southeast coast of India in the northeast of Tamil Nadu), you’ll find an usual and unexpected establishment: a French baking school. The school was created by...
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Another Radioactive Leak but it’s in the Same Place, Really
This time the uranium leak is in Pierrelatte, which actually shares the same nuclear power facilities as Tricastin, where the last two leaks were found, but the media has been suspiciously removing...
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Orange Admits to Lowering 3G Network Speed
From electronista: “French cellphone carrier Orange has admitted to imposing artificial limits on its 3G broadband network, reports say. The confession comes after complaints from a number of iPhone...
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New 5 Euro Coins
Effective today, these new silver 5 euro coins will be in distribution all across Europe…as if we didn’t have enough coins! I wish they would get rid of the copper coins, especially the 1 cent ones...
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Carrefour is a Rotten Egg
If you shop at Carrefour, you might have noticed a strange sign they’ve put up near the eggs that first says that eggs stay fresh 25 days after they’ve been packed, then says, “we remove eggs 7 days...
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One Bad Apple: Toxic Mac Pros
From gizmodo: “One of the croissant-snarfing editors at Gizmodo France passed along this article that alleges the Mac Pro gives off toxic vapors. Translating from the language of lose to the language...
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France Pulls Toxic Chinese Food
From sinolinx: “France has recalled sweets and biscuits made with Chinese dairy after finding high levels of an industrial chemical. In China, four babies have died and 53,000 have fallen sick after...
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Why Coffee and Cafes in France Have Gone Downhill
Over several years now, a strange thing has happened in France: the coffee started to suck. Yes, there were cafes that served terrible coffee forever, but for the most part in the early 2000s, it was...
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Dialogue Entre Barack Obama and Francois Hollande
This is actually not very funny to me but hey, whatever. C’est la vie as they say in my quite possibly soon to be ex-host country. This is not an isolated case. Not only are American businesses in...
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