France has run out of Dijon mustard and it's no laughing matter - The Australian Financial Review

The mustard makers of Burgundy have been hit by a triple catastrophe that has cut supplies of the seeds of Brassica juncea used for the Dijon product.

This is the condiment with which we used to eke out our cash as teenagers by slathering it on endless slices of baguette as we hitchhiked around France in the 1970s. Its the same story as far afield… [+3016 chars]

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