Apparently, the French are now encouraging "doggie bags" for leftover wine, this as a result of a crackdown on drinking and driving. A humorous but informational story is online at AOL. (This link, if it works at all, may possibly work only for AOL subscribers accessing the link while on AOL: Doggie Bags for Wine)

A brief excerpt follows from the article:

Mr. Karrenbauer . . . (the owner) . . . of Chez Paul said that two out of three customers who asked for doggie bags were not necessarily drivers but foreign tourists who intended to finish their wine back at their hotels.

Finally, the concept of pocketing leftovers has not caught on in France. A sampling of the clientele at Chez Paul at lunchtime last Friday indicated little enthusiasm for the idea of a "sac de chien."

Asked whether he would ever take an unfinished bottle of wine home in a doggie bag, Yvan Assioma, 36, a police union representative, replied, "Why? I don't have a dog! People with the leftovers of their bottle — this is truly provincial."

Laurence Martin, his lunch companion and a police officer in the suburbs of Paris, agreed. "We're not campers," she said.