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Number of baguettes produced daily (daily!) on the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The ship carries on average 2100 people, for whom daily rations of baguettes and croissants are clearly indispensable. Of course, what’s a crusty baguette without an accompanying glass of wine? Luckily, there are four bars on board. (This is the French Navy).

President Johnson was the first President to promote United States wines by serving them regularly in the White House.

Answer: True.

Johnson was the first President who regularly featured wines from the U.S. at state dinners. By doing so, he hoped to support the burgeoning US wine industry. Following Johnson, President Richard Nixon reverted to serving mostly French wines in the White House. It was not until Jimmy Carter became President that U.S. wines were served once again- a tradition that continues to this day.

“One day her mother said to her, ‘Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good.’ “

—“Rotkäpchen” (Little Red Riding Hood or Little Red-Cap)
Printed in Kinder-und Hausmärchen, a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm

In 1989 and 1990, two California school districts in Culver City and Empire, respectively, banned this version of the tale over concerns about the mention of alcohol in the story.

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