Despite having handled bottles and jars for many years now, it took until yesterday for the full extent of the secret state to be revealed to us, with discrete codes being included in the base of same, all the ones which we checked, including a bottle of wine which claimed to have been bottled in Italy.
A row of dots, rather like the dots used in Braille, perhaps amounting to ten bits of information. So with 2^10 amounting to just 1,024, not a great deal, but enough to track place of manufacture or approximate date of manufacture. Or time of day of manufacture. Or the state of the planets at the time of manufacture.
Are the cunning bar code readers used by the likes of Waitrose cunning enough to read dot codes as well as bar codes?
What on earth do they want this information for?
PS: this particularly lurid looking jar was sold in aid of church funds for St. Lawrence of Effingham. Not a bar code reader to be seen anywhere. But for what it is worth, the St. Lawrence who was roasted to death and who is in consequence the patron saint of cooks and grill hands.
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