What Boycott? Americans Splash Out on French Wine

[slappypan]

What Boycott? Americans Splash Out on French Wine

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 CIVB, a Bordeaux wine council, reported on Thursday a 77 percent rise in the value of the region's produce sold to the U.S. market in 2002-03.

Another right-wing boycott backfires. I don't know about y'all, but I certainly did my part!

[el_gato]

1. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

funny

fuck you freeptards

[number six]

2. Well done, America.

[Zero Gravitas]

3. I for one

started buying more French wine when this asinine "boycott the French" thing started. Maybe part of it is a backlash against the knuckle draggers?

[MissB]

7. I did the same thing

It felt good. All those fools were boycotting French products because their country made a sane decision not to get involved in Iraq.

[Sinistrous]

9. What little wine I buy

has been 100% French since the anti-French foolishness began.

[blueseas]

4. Ha ha

Most Americans know good products when they see them!

Poor fweepers.

[Spazito]

5. Way to go you Americans!

That is wonderful news, shows that the real rabid right wingers are a VERY small minority that talk alot but don't walk alot!

[el_gato]

6. the analysis of the pheonix program run in south viet nam

was that a radicalized 5 percent of the population could effectively intimidate the other 95 percent who are complacent

so even if the freepers are a small minority it doesn't take that many, as long as they are sufficiently militant, to intimidate the masses

i don't think it'll happen quite like that here though

[MoonAndSun]

8. Yes, and I also bought that wonderful French goat cheese to go along

with those wonderful wines to take to parties for my friends (I don't drink alcohol).

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Don't drink any wine, so I drove across town to buy French

Brie from the only store that carried it (sorry, Wisconsin, but it had to be French)! I've made 5 trips since the boycott everything French started!