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Calvados is the regimental drink of The Royal Canadian Hussars, Le Régiment de Hull and Le Régiment de Maisonneuve, having been taken up as the units passed through Normandy following the D-Day invasion. Known as Le Trou normand, it is normally taken as a palate cleanser between courses at a regimental dinner.
In the Swedish television police procedural Beck, the main character, Martin Beck, regularly drinks Calvados.
In the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque the protagonist, a surgeon named Ravic, often drinks Calvados.
In the video game Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30, Lt. Col. Robert Cole finds a case of Calvados in a barn on the highway N13 to Carentan after an assault on a farm known as Cole's Charge.
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