Swilling Trend-Mongers

We are so far ahead of the curve we scare ourselves.
And small children.

categories Swill Food and Grog | | datetime June 23, 2009 3:22 pm

9 Responses to “Swilling Trend-Mongers”

  1. JeffS says:
    June 23, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Until you rig an intraveneous feed for your recliner, I won’t be scared.

  2. Retread says:
    June 23, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    I thought of you when I saw that.
    Go have a look at Tim Blair’s instructions for dinner.

  3. Mr. Bingley says:
    June 23, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    Yeah, I saw that steak. Looks mighty good!

  4. Mary says:
    June 23, 2009 at 6:14 pm

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  5. Gary from Jersey says:
    June 24, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    I took your advice and went to Wine R Us and looked at those boxes. None had a coupon for a liver transplant, so now I’m thinking medics are gonna find you passed out behind Whole Foods some day real soon. Which reminds me: Do any of your test subjects beat a truly great wine, like Carlo Rossi Paisano?

  6. tree hugging sister says:
    June 24, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    Gary, you ARE a wild man!

  7. bingbing says:
    June 25, 2009 at 6:45 am

    We’ve had it for years back in Australia. It’s known as cask wine, or alternatively, goon. It was great at parties as a teenager. You could get four litres of the stuff for about eight bucks back then, and you could inflate the bladder (er, the cask bladder) after you were done and use it as a pillow.
    Some of them aren’t too shabby, actually. I remember years ago, a current affairs program back in Oz did the ol’ hidden camera in an Indian restaurant thing. Among other things, they were filling ‘proper’ wine bottles up with goon and passing it off. The thing is, the customers didn’t have a clue. They couldn’t tell the difference.
    Perhaps a man of such a discerning nature as yours could, but there you go.

  8. bingbing says:
    June 25, 2009 at 6:46 am

    We’ve had it for years back in Australia. It’s known as cask wine, or alternatively, goon. It was great at parties as a teenager. You could get four litres of the stuff for about eight bucks back then, and you could inflate the bladder (er, the cask bladder) after you were done and use it as a pillow.
    Some of them aren’t too shabby, actually. I remember years ago, a current affairs program back in Oz did the ol’ hidden camera in an Indian restaurant thing. Among other things, they were filling ‘proper’ wine bottles up with goon and passing it off. The thing is, the customers didn’t have a clue. They couldn’t tell the difference.
    Perhaps a man of such a discerning nature as yours could, but there you go.

  9. bingbing says:
    June 25, 2009 at 9:42 am

    LOL, THS! I was thinking just the same, hehehe. 😉

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