Interesting Celery Fact No. 1,495

Attempts by French viticulturalists to make wine from celery during the dark days of World War II were at the time considered a dismal failure. The taste was considered insipid, and lacking in depth, and the opinion of most Frenchmen was that such a beverage would be suitable only for beggars, or sheep. Today, however, celery wine enjoys considerable success in the guise of the drink we know as Lambrini.