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]