Foreign News: What, No Sherry Cow?

If I had a cow that gave such milk I'd dress her in the finest silk, Feed her on the choicest hay, And milk her 40 times a day!

Ever since the 17th Century, Britons have drunk a sherry called "Bristol Milk." Samuel Pepys wrote in its praise. The entry in his diary of June 13, 1668 reads: ". . . and did give us good entertainment of strawberries, a whole venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all, Bristol milk."

But John Harvey & Sons, makers of Bristol Milk and a better sherry called Bristol Cream, never got around to...

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