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[crazy canuck]

So I'll admit this - I went to the same place where I'd ordered that medium well steak and ordered a medium rare one today.  Without Psellus or Timmiesque behavior - I'll admit that it was way better once I got over the whole pink aspect. Not all chewy like it was before but instead juicy and succulent.

Dont worry Garbon, soon you will also be drinking real Champagne.

[garbon]

So I'll admit this - I went to the same place where I'd ordered that medium well steak and ordered a medium rare one today.  Without Psellus or Timmiesque behavior - I'll admit that it was way better once I got over the whole pink aspect. Not all chewy like it was before but instead juicy and succulent.

Dont worry Garbon, soon you will also be drinking real Champagne.

I've had "real" champagne but until I get my raise - I'm staying away.  This weekend at the horse races, I've got us with 8 bottles of Korbel.

[Jacob]

So I'll admit this - I went to the same place where I'd ordered that medium well steak and ordered a medium rare one today.  Without Psellus or Timmiesque behavior - I'll admit that it was way better once I got over the whole pink aspect. Not all chewy like it was before but instead juicy and succulent.

[Tamas]

The whole champagne-sparkling wine snobbery becomes funny in Hungarian.

You see, the way we call these sparkling wine is directly translated as... "sparkling"

So you end up with snobs basically saying "the only real sparkling wine is coming from champagne, the rest of them are just sparkling wine"

[Eddie Teach]

It's funny in English.

[Syt]

In German we distinguish between Champagne and Sekt, the taxation of which funded the Imperial Navy.

[Duque de Bragança]

In German we distinguish between Champagne and Sekt, the taxation of which funded the Imperial Navy.

Sekt a.k.a Girly wine.

[Richard Hakluyt]

But don't say that if zombie Admiral Tirpitz is in the room.

[Zanza]

In German we distinguish between Champagne and Sekt, the taxation of which funded the Imperial Navy.

We no longer have an Imperial Navy, but the tax is still around. 

[Duque de Bragança]

But don't say that if zombie Admiral Tirpitz is in the room.

Don't worry, I doubt Herr Admiral went for the girlie stuff, specially since he could afford the real stuff.

[Ideologue]

I read that dude's book once.

[Malthus]

Wine snobs hate mongers, because of his love for cider as opposed to wine.

That you think the wine snobs just shows you've never been exposed to the cider snobs

Just to throw fuel on the fire - in Canada there are no regulations dictating stuff like where "champagne" must be from, but there *are* regulations dictating the composition (but not origin) of "Champagne Cider". 

See: reg. B.02.122 of the Food and Drugs regulations to the Food and Drugs Act ...

(the regs *do* have location of origin rules for "Scotch Wiskey" - reg. B.02.016 - but not for "champagne". Because, obviously, "champagne" is a generalized term - see "champagne cider".)

[garbon]

In German we distinguish between Champagne and Sekt, the taxation of which funded the Imperial Navy.

Sekt a.k.a as Girly wine.

as as?

[Gups]

Meh. Cheap champagne is pretty much indistinguishable from the better sparklers from other countries and good champagne is expensive enough that anyone buying it knows the difference (apart from Veuve lovers who have no taste buds whatsoever).

Anyway global warming will see the rise of English sparkling wine specifically in the south which has a similar soil to Champagne.

[DGuller]

Meh. Cheap champagne is pretty much indistinguishable from the better sparklers from other countries and good champagne is expensive enough that anyone buying it knows the difference (apart from Veuve lovers who have no taste buds whatsoever).

Anyway global warming will see the rise of English sparkling wine specifically in the south which has a similar soil to Champagne.

Champagne should've been the southern England.  You guys really botched it in 15th century.