Americans bought more French wine during "boycott" than before it

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  • Mr.Fiction
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    • Feb 2002
    • 9484
    #1

    Americans bought more French wine during "boycott" than before it

    Despite threatening to boycott French products when Paris opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq (news - web sites), Americans overtook Germans as the biggest spenders on France's Bordeaux wines in the 2002-03 sales year.

    The volume of Bordeaux wines sold to the United States also rose, climbing 20 percent in the year to July 31, 2003 -- a period that included the build-up and bitter aftermath of Washington's diplomatic tangle with Paris over Iraq.

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../od_nm/wine_dc

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    • bhutocracy
      Not making A Comeback
      • Dec 2001
      • 10218
      #2
      any publicity is good publicity


      unless you're matrix.

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        • wargames
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          • May 2003
          • 10423
          #3
          we love to drink
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            • LiveDose
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              • Feb 2002
              • 25792
              #4
              how's their tourism doing with US dollars?

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                • Corona
                  Confirmed User
                  • Feb 2002
                  • 2185
                  #5
                  I thought the wine came from the other France.
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                  And heaven knows I'm miserable now

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                    • Trax
                      [----------------------]
                      • Aug 2001
                      • 14486
                      #6
                      its only wine....
                      thats the only thing they can

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                        • ControlThy
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                          • May 2002
                          • 1909
                          #7
                          French wine is quality wine.
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                            • who
                              So Fucking Banned
                              • Aug 2003
                              • 19593
                              #8
                              We're not the brightest nation.... but we sure as hell want what we can't have.

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                                • goBigtime
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Nov 2002
                                  • 7761
                                  #9
                                  There was a boycott... but it obviously wasn't against the french.

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                                    • Sarah_Jayne
                                      Now with more Jayne
                                      • Dec 2002
                                      • 40077
                                      #10
                                      Anyone in the UK that likes wine would be insane to boycott it when they can just hop over to calais for the afternoon and pick up decent stuff for under a dollar.

                                      I will boycott escargot ....sorry, freedom snails.

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                                        • DeadFidel
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Jul 2003
                                          • 6764
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by bhutocracy
                                          any publicity is good publicity


                                          unless you're matrix.
                                          What he said.

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                                            • abadfish
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Jul 2003
                                              • 1482
                                              #12
                                              In my opinion if anyone was "boycotting" the french it was the media. Maybe 5 people decided to boycott it so CNN, Fox, MSNBC all report it and suddenly the entire US is boycotting France.
                                              Reanna Mae

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                                                • BRISK
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                                                  • Feb 2003
                                                  • 12240
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by abadfish
                                                  In my opinion if anyone was "boycotting" the french it was the media. Maybe 5 people decided to boycott it so CNN, Fox, MSNBC all report it and suddenly the entire US is boycotting France.
                                                  so true
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                                                    • Danny_C
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Feb 2002
                                                      • 2160
                                                      #14
                                                      That entire ordeal was asinine... the lowest point being freedom fries. Fuddruckers (the only large chain I know to officially start selling freedom fries) still haven't put the word french back on their fries... now they just say fries. Yeah, take that, French!

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                                                        • extreme
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                                                          • Oct 2002
                                                          • 2120
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by LiveDose
                                                          how's their tourism doing with US dollars?
                                                          Considering the value of it these days I doubt they want it

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