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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Vine Glo Thanks for the warning
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 18:43:07 -0500
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Ed P wrote on 6/7/2025 6:31 PM:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine-Glo
> 
> When Prohibition banned alcohol in the United States under the Volstead 
> Act, it produced a number of loopholes. One under section 29 said that 
> non-alcoholic grape products could still be sold and people could make 
> fruit juices at home from them. The CVA founded Fruit Industries and 
> received a $1,300,000 loan from the Federal Farm Board.[3] Joseph Gallo, 
> father of vintners Ernest and Julio Gallo, invented Vine-Glo as a legal 
> grape concentrate brick and would sell it through Fruit Industries.[4] 
> The product was advertised with tips for preventing fermentation,[5] 
> with one salesperson giving customers a very specific warning: "Do not 
> place the liquid in this jug and put it away in the cupboard for 
> twenty-one days, because then it would turn into wine
> 

Sounds like something Gallo would say.