A Jug of Wine, a

A Jug of Wine, a Block of Feta... - It seems to be striking much of the liberal media as a huge revelation - but the US is quite popular in Eastern Europe.

Last month, when the governments of most of the members of the former Warsaw Pact sided with us versus Iraq, much of the media acted like it was news to them - although if you've worked with any Poles or Ukranians in the past decade, you'd wonder what rock the media'd been hiding under.

MSNBC's Gersh Kunstman lauds Bulgaria's wine, feta...and friendship:

Bulgaria actually seems to like us. I mean really like us—in that Sally Field way.
And I like them right back. In fact, the mere mention of Bulgaria brings to mind Will Rogers’s famous axiom: I have, indeed, never met a Bulgarian I didn’t like. Think about your own experiences with these exotic people of the East(ern Europe). I’ll bet you’ve never met a Bulgarian who wasn’t charming, demure and, to top it off, a fantastic dancer.
So that’s why I’ve started showing my support through copious consumption of Chateau Boriana. Sure, you French-wine-drinking snobs may scoff, but repeated tastings of Chateau Boriana revealed an extremely drinkable red—and when I say “extremely drinkable,” I mean that exactly the same amount of Chateau Boriana merlot was required to get me as messed up as I get on the genuine French stuff. At $5.99 a bottle, you do the geopolitics.

I met this Bulgarian woman at a coffee shop last year...all I can say is, let's hear it for the new world order.