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California's Wine Industry Is in Crisis

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12 points JumpCrisscross | 3 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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throwaway81523 ◴[12 Oct 25 02:40 UTC] No.45554698[source]▶
Somebody ought to package that grapes, and sell it for snacks.
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1. shawn_w ◴[12 Oct 25 03:38 UTC] No.45554999[source]▶
Do wine grapes make good eating grapes?
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2. wrboyce ◴[12 Oct 25 14:26 UTC] No.45558453[source]▶
Not generally, no.
3. throwaway81523 ◴[12 Oct 25 20:56 UTC] No.45561827[source]▶
It's a reference to an old TV commercial (I saw it later than the 1970s though, I'm pretty sure).

https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/s7hs8k/tomt_...

I didn't try clicking the facebook link, because facebook, but maybe you can see the commercial there.

I expected the commercial to be better known and remembered, with copies on youtube and so on, but it appears very obscure. It came to my mind right away. Oh well.