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Anyway, ancient Romans found out that mustard seeds' sharp taste may be somewhat blunted by mixing them with sour-tasting grape must. They called this mixture "burning must", or "''mustum ardens''" in Latin, which, as you may have guessed, is where the English word "mustard" comes from. This condiment survived the fall of the Roman Empire and was quite commonplace in medieval Europe. By that time, however, the must would have been usually replaced with either verjuice (unripe -grape juice) or vinegar , wine (although the famous Dijon mustard, for example, still has some white wine added to it)or vinegar.  The fact that mustard was common commonly known throughout Europe doesn't mean that medieval Europeans didn't have their stereotypes about specific nations' supposed love for the condiment. One such stereotype was best illustrated by Eustache Deschamp, a 15th-century pioneer of French culinary chauvinism who didn't care for any food outside the borders of France. I already once quoted [[A_Royal_Banquet_in_Cracow#Pike_in_the_Polish_style|his not too flattering description of Czech cuisine]]; now it's time for a poem about Belgian cookery.