The best thing I’ve learned this week is that some alcohol has a pear inside the bottle

How did it get in there? Like this of course

Bottles are slid over young fruits and tied to the trunk for stability. This makes them very difficult to care for and frankly the goofiest looking pear tree I’ve ever seen but am I going to buy a bottle of this just to stare at it? Probably.

It’s also really tasty stuff. (Saw my first bottle of this stuff a couple of decades ago, on its home turf. It’s worth laying hands on if one can...)