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Originally posted by David_Hayward
When I first went to France in 1971 'Jolly Farmer' from the Co-op was 1 Franc or 1/13th of a Pound..it was cheaper than water!
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Better than water too!
I remember cycling into Beauvais, still terribly jet-lagged after a night on an overloaded 707 (crammed with returning French students, all half-pissed when they boarded), one August evening in 1975. Unpacked my bike, reinflated the tyres, pitched my tent and walked up the street to buy bread, butter, eggs and wine.
Vin Tigre was the latter, for the equivalent of 38 Canadian cents per litre bottle (to my delight, my high-school Parisian French worked). I seem to remember boiling eggs on my cooker, sopping up the muck with French bread and drinking half that bottle of wine. Never slept better after that.
