[sam_lowry_]

Little known fact: we lost the grape used to produce mustard before Phylloxera.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Can you explain? I don't understand, as mustard is made from the mustard plant, not grapes.

[sam_lowry_]

Mustard grains are soaked in wine vinegar nowadays.

Before phylloxera, a grape that gives a wine with high acidity was used.

It went extinct.

[sam_lowry_]

correction: mustard flour, not grains.

[coryrc]

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