French supermarkets install machines that dispense wine like petrol pumps.Amusing, but it's a mechanised version of how wine used to be sold in France when I was sailing along the Rivera. We'd put into port and the skipper would stroll down to the vitners with a couple of Jerry cans and then return with ten gallons of vin ordinare that was so cheap it wasn't worth bottling.
It made the passage back to England... interesting. I didn't think it was possible to get halfway up the Kiel ship canal without noticing.
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