Bob Draper writes: >...nowadays we have consumer protection law to prevent vinegar being >dishonestly passed off as wine. Maybe we should have laws to prevent >the passing off of a big band version of a Mozart symphony >as the real thing. What it actually is is 'Mozart (arranged whoever)'. >At least the HIPbrigade are attempting to be honest. Actually what the Roman legions drank was not vinegar but something a step up called verjus. The French still use it to make mustard and own up to it, proudly, in their labelling. Verjus is just the stuff for the onward foot-soldiering HIPster, marching as to score. Wine's for the more slick, decadent classical and his large-force orgies. Denis Fodor Internet:[log in to unmask]