Crushing the grapes...

It was pretty gross. Especially when they start splashing each other with the grapes and it gets in their hair and stuff, all over.

This is supposed to be "sexy" because only the women do it, as if female feet are somehow cleaner than men's, as if they didn't all just walk over the same ground and step in the same dog poop and have the same sweat and toe jam.

People were not hygienic back then like at all. Some didn't even believe in germs, and thought that disease was like some sort of supernatural curse or demons or something, so why wash your feet, right? They had a very "we're blessed by the Catholic church, so God will bless us and protect us from disease" perception.

Even without all of that, in modern times if people wash their feet, I don't want people crushing grapes with their feet. I don't want people touching my food with their nasty fingers either without gloves. Fingers are in every orifice between touching doorknobs and light switches and people never wash their hands to my satisfaction.

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I always felt like this particular grape crushing was actually more of a celebration and ritual, then actual wine making. They have just harvested the grapes and there are many more boxes still in the trucks They say a prayer to the 4 winds, start up the band and then have a good time. Just the way way the girls are dancing it seems more like a Dionysus festival (and perhaps fertility ritual) then an actual grape pressing.

But, regardless, by the time the juice has fermented (turned to alcohol) and been filtered any dirt germs and bacteria will have been removed. It would not be my first drinking choice, but it would probably be safe.

It's going to turn into alcohol that will kill most anything that might have been introduced.

Sounds like some of you have not lived a life

Sounds like some of you have not lived a life