Diluting wine with water

Don't know about France or Paris but I do recall wondering why the altar boy would pour water in the priest's wine during the ceremony. :o)

Monika

Jack Mann, late of Houghton's, used to put ice cubes in his signature white wine as a refreshing summer drink.

It's a symbolic thing. It isn't merely to dilute the wine. This is from the Council of Florence (circa 1400): "Not wine only nor water only should be offered in the chalice of the Lord but a mixture of both. For we read that both, that is blood and water, flowed from the side of Christ."

Tom S

The north of Spain I'd guess... :-) Anders

In message , Anders Tørneskog writes

Isn't it a brand of tonic water?

I thought I had replied to your question this afternoon, but I cannot see my reply.

Nordic Mist is the tonic water brand of The Coca Cola Company that replaced Finley some time ago, it seems that only in Spain. And I cannot stand it.

S.

Thank you. Thinking back to my visit of Pamplona in 1971 I remember the large ads standing in the landscape (like the ubiquitous Osborne bulls):

I found it strange, because the range of soft drinks was called "Kinley" here in Austria. (I don't know if they still exist.)

M.

Michael Pronay wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@pronay.com:

Wow. 1971. You were in Spain even before than I arrived .

S.

Yeah. Been there and even was part of the encierro. (I told both my

M.