French vinters aim for younger drinkers...

France has a huge wine problem. Although it is widely known that the French love to drink wine, and take drinking wine very serious, they are drinking conciderably less of the stuff then they used to do. 10 years ago each Frenchman would drink around 425 glasses of wine per year. At this moment however, the same guy only drinks around 250 glasses.

The problem is that the wine industry still produces a lot of wine, and so are other countries around the world. But with less wine consumption in their own country, the French decided to do something about it.

I hear you think: and what might that be Jenifer? Well, they decided to start to teach their children how to drink wine, and how to appreciate wine as well.

It's a strange country, France that is. Anywhere else in the civilized world, including Thailand, people are discouraged drinking to much. A minimum age is very often enforced to avoid that children start drinking at a young age, because, as everyone knows, alcohol is NOT good for children. But in France they think: get the little buggers started as soon as possible, if possible mix some of the wine with the milk the mothers are feading their infants. No, that is not true also, but you get the idea.

The France produce a lot of cheese as well. And of course very nice bread. What I can see happen in the future of this great country (which brings us the Tour de France every year) is that school children will be served a lunch concisting of: 1 small loaf of bread, smelly cheese, and 1 pint of red / white wine. This will keep the students quiet for the remainder of the day, and teachers will love it.

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