I just couldn't camembert going without the French wine
The anti-French sentiment in the US seems to have backfired.
Despite threatening to boycott French products when Paris opposed the
US-led war on Iraq, Americans overtook Germans as the biggest spenders
on France’s Bordeaux wines in the 2002-03 sales year.
The CIVB, a Bordeaux wine council, reported a 77 per cent rise in the
value of the region’s produce sold to the US market in 2002-03.
The volume of Bordeaux wines sold to the United States also rose, climbing
20 per cent in the year to July 31, 2003 - a period that included the
build-up and bitter aftermath of Washington’s diplomatic tangle
with Paris over Iraq.
Taken from Ethical
Consumer Dec 2004
Spread cheese not war!Citizens for Spreading the Cheese advocated a buy-in of French products to combat the knee-jerk anti-French sentiment.