Vin de jujube

In the Book Nine of the Odyseey, Homer tells the story of Ulysses and his men landed on the island
of the Lotus Eaters in North Africa, carried off course by a storm. There, some of his men were
tempted by the fruit of the lotus, a magical fruit that made them forget everything, their homesickness,
their wives and families. Homer’s lotus is thought to have been the Zizphus lotus, a wild
jujube, and the spell of the lotus was caused not by narcotics, but by the wine of the fruits of the
jujube.