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Cisco may refer to:

Cisco Systems, Inc. ... Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and some network switches (some switches run CatOS; some can run either CatOs or IOS). ... Note: Not to be confused with Cisco Systems, an American computer networking company. ... The Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation, or CISCO for short, is one of the three private security companies authorised to provide armed security officers in Singapore to government organisations as well as private companies. ... Nickname: The City by the Bay Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Cisco is a highly alcoholic fortified wine, with an alcohol content of 18 percent. ... The Cisco Kid is a fictional Mexican cowboy character created by author O. Henry in his short story The Caballeros Way published in 1907 in the short story collection Heart of the West. ... USS Cisco (SS-290), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cisco, a whitefish of the Great Lakes. ... Cisco is a village located in Piatt County, Illinois. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Binomial name Coregonus artedi Lesueur, 1818 blah The cisco (Coregonus artedi) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae). ...

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Bum Wines - Cisco (450 words)
Cisco is bottled by the nation's second largest wine company, Canandaigua Wine Co., in Canandaigua, NY and Naples, NY - the same company as Wild Irish Rose.
Most Cisco flavors are named by the fruit flavor that they are trying to emulate, but the one picture is simply called "RED." This chemical disaster will get your head spinning in no time.
A test subject reports, "Strawberry Cisco has a bouquet similar to that of Frankenberry cereal fermented in wine cooler with added sprinkle of brandy for presentation." The sticky, sickingly sweet taste with a hint of antifreeze really comes through in the repellant taste of Cisco.
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