I heard recently from someone I used to work with some 20 years ago and it reminded me of the way in which many people in those days used to go out to the pub at lunch time, drink vast amounts of beer and then go back to work in the afternoon. It seems incredible that any work got done at all after lunch and I suppose that, in reality, not much of value did get done, so it’s probably a good thing, for all sorts of reasons, that things have changed.
Yet in some quarters attitudes are now so politically correct that you are frowned upon even if you so much as consider a glass of wine with your lunch instead of mineral water.
On this, as in just about everything else, the French in general and the champenois in particular, see things a little differently. Wine or champagne at lunch is still very much an essential part of a normal day.
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