Finland is aligned with Poland, Sweden and other traditional vodka producers around the Baltic Sea, who want the European Union to insist that only spirits made with traditional ingredients — barley grain and potato — should be allowed to carry the vodka label.
Pitched against them is a group led by Britain, the Netherlands, France and Austria — and backed by London-based multinational drinks producer Diageo — which take a more relaxed view of what can go into vodka, for example grapes, beets or citrus fruit.
Beets? Beets? What is this, a prison movie? A recipe concocted by residents of the Betty Ford Clinic? Beets?
Do you think when the great political leaders get together and down a few shots they want to drink crappy beet juice? What a waste of olives.
(Thanks Erik!)
