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Comment by zabzonk

3 days ago

I thought this was a misspelled article about Kokinelli, the Greek red wine, fairly accurately described here: https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Kokinelli

I used to drink this stuff back in the late 1960s, when my Dad was an RAF pilot based in Cyprus and I was about 15. You had to take it with a Sprite mixer if you wanted to retain your teeth.

It would be a good name for a project, though.

They are cognate: cochineal is a red dye derived from a red insect a little bit like a ladybug.