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Cost (in U.S. dollars) of New York’s Upper East Side restaurant Serendipity 3’s LUXE Milkshake. Released on June 20 (National Vanilla Milkshake Day), it has been awarded the Guinness World Record for Most Expensive Milkshake. A key ingredient includes 23-karat edible gold. The concoction requires a 24-hour notice before you can sip and savor it in the NYC summer heat.

Burdigala is:

A. The name of a historic celebratory dinner hosted every 10 years in Paris by France’s Grand Crus estates

B. The name of the tribe that settled the region surrounding Burgundy

C. The original Celtic name for Bordeaux

D. The name of the first, but no longer standing, famous forest from which French oak barrels originally came

Burdigala was the name bestowed on the region of Bordeaux by its first Celtic occupants, the Bituriges Vivisques tribe, according to Jane Anson in her authoritative Inside Bordeaux (Berry Bros. & Rudd, 2020). The tribe settled in the Bordeaux region around 567 BCE, and remained there—even under Roman rule–until the 3^rd century AD.

“I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is best, but for some reason, they were hell bent on teaching me algebra.”

—Ben Mitchell, author, Without One Plea

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