White lines? Oops BTDT…
Well, they won’t be doing white-water rafting for sure.
That’s water and danger-seeking combined.
Uh-Uh.
I’m really willing to jump in and lend a hand… me and my dumb ass older brother started drinking Foster’s because we liked Men at Work and saw Crocodile Dundee. yeah i know about as aussie as that bloomin onion…
My turn… Whats with white dudes and the backwards cap thing?? Last time I went out… (4 months ago or so in Buckhead) every other white dude had the baseball cap turned backwards…
Give it ten years… the bro’s will start representin in the X games… just like Hockey baby… when they found out that ice doesn’t have to be in your glass…
Nope. It doesn’t make sense. Not at all.
To you, a black republican is weird because you think most black people are democrats. To me, a black man drinking white wine is weird because I think most white wine drinkers are women.
But somehow in your view your opinion is A-OK and mine is all kinds of wrong. What’s up with that?
Erp. 
Well, since I pride myself on being 99 percent honest, I guess I should admit that I just left a midtown bar and that many people around me were drinking white wine, much more than I would expect. The crowd, as usual, is mixed. So I asked my bartender, who I’ve known for a while (best friend of a former bootie call), on whether she has noticed an increase in white wine consumption at the bar. She said no. She’s black (which I mention only because that seems to be relevant to certain people here). So I asked her if she’s noticed what I’ve noticed recently. She said no and that white wine has always been popular with young black guys since the “white party fad” started, which I didn’t consider. These are parties which Diddy popularized in which all attendees are required to wear all white. And the theme inspired the obvious choice of wine Somehow she didn’t throw a hissyfit though. So I pulled up this thread on my blackberry and showed her meanoldlady’s posts. Her comment was “every race has people that are ‘old school embarrassing’”. Tru dat, I said.
Incidentally, her colleague, who’s white, said that he has noticed much more white wine consumption in younger guys in general, white and black…but not other races. Take what you will from all this.
Well, since I pride myself on being 99 percent honest, I guess I should admit that I just left a midtown bar and that many people around me were drinking white wine, much more than I would expect. The crowd, as usual, is mixed. So I asked my bartender, who I’ve known for a while (best friend of a former bootie call), on whether she has noticed an increase in white wine consumption at the bar. She said no. She’s black (which I mention only because that seems to be relevant to certain people here). So I asked her if she’s noticed what I’ve noticed recently. She said no and that white wine has always been popular with young black guys since the “white party fad” started, which I didn’t consider. These are parties which Diddy popularized in which all attendees are required to wear all white. And the theme inspired the obvious choice of wine Somehow she didn’t throw a hissyfit though. So I pulled up this thread on my blackberry and showed her meanoldlady’s posts. Her comment was “every race has people that are ‘old school embarrassing’”. Tru dat, I said.
Incidentally, her colleague, who’s white, said that he has noticed much more white wine consumption in younger guys in general, white and black…but not other races. Take what you will from all this.
There’s been a lot of intellectual firepower expended here on a question that I don’t think really contained as much meaning as has been attributed to it.
Here’s my take on the question:
Over the last thirty years, I would say that I’ve gone to a bar an average of three nights a week (and what that says about me is best left to another thread). Sometimes more, sometimes less, but that’s about how it works out. Mostly that’s been in New York City, but I’ve been in most of the major cities (well, all of the major cities and many of the lesser cities) in the United States, and plenty of cities around the world. And that inclues a fair number of nights working behind a bar. More on the other side of the bar, but I’ve spent time as a bartender.
Most of those nights have been spent in what I’d call hangout bars. Neighborhood places. Not nightclubs, not fancy places, no velvet ropes, no special cocktail menus (one place I used to frequent had a sign over the bar reading “pain-in-the-ass drinks $5 extra”), the kind of place where you’d probably get thrown out of you asked for, say, a lichee martini.
I’ve never seen a group of three (or four, or five, or any number that would represent a typical group of buddies out for a drink) guys all order wine. Never. If I saw three guys come in and they all ordered wine, I’d notice. I might not really pay any attention to whether they were black or white or whatever, but I’d notice the wine order.
And then, if I saw a group of guys come in on some other night, and they all ordered wine, I’d notice, and remember that I’d recently seen the same thing a few nights ago. And, yes, if those guys were black, then I might remember that the last group was black also (if that was the case). And then I might indeed think, hey, is there some drinking fashion or taste going on here that I don’t know about? There are ethnic tastes in food and drink. It’s pretty commonplace to see a group of black guys hanging out and drinking brandy (Hennessy or Courvoisier or something). I haven’t seen groups of white guys drinking that stuff. And I’ve never observed a bunch of young black guys drinking Jaegermeister, although I’ve seen plenty of young (always young – it’s not what I’d call a grownup drink) white guys drink that crap. And I’ve only seen girls (again, it’s a young thing) order Southern Comfort, or anything made with it. And so on.
It ain’t racist. It’s just curious.
You sure they weren’ sippin’ on some Alize’?
How do you know what they were drinking, exactly? Or did you automatically assume they were drinking White Wine as a White Person seeing a wine glass? Could have been spritzers for all you know.
It may have been a Simpsons joke, but it is definitely real now. About a year ago we caught a ring of fraudulent prescriptions being passed all over central/southern Florida. The medication? Oxytontin? Percocet? Xanax? No, a 473 ml bottle of promethazine with codeine. They’d gotten over 40 of them in just two days.
Well, apropos of nothing, I was in a bar last week and ordered a glass of milk.
ATTENTION!
Last night on the Cooking Channel, there was a show called Drink Up.
The host, Darryl Robinson (an African-American Male BARTENDER), was at the Terroir Tribeca bar in New York.
Guess what alcohol was featured on the show?
WHITE WINE!
Mystery solved (IMHO)
Is it weird to you because they’re black, or because they are men?
Yes, people drink it to get high, but it’s not being sold as a legitimate drink at a bar in Springfield, which is what I was clearing up.
This is just so stupid. I have heard the attitude, and I have to repeat, it’s just so stupid. I love white wine, hate red wine, because of the FLAVOR. How could one drink be masculine and another more effeminate. I know how, it’s just stupid. I am male, straight, from america, I love beer, like whiskey and vodka and also like white wine (most preferably sweet German reislings).
In general, things that taste bitter are considered “for men” while things that taste sweet are for women. I don’t necessarily agree, having a major sweet tooth myself, but that’s the underlying assumption.
Raiders QB Jamarcus Russel got busted with Purple Drank recently, another NFLer was busted and died before trial and a Packer starting lineman was busted in Houston recently. Coincidentally, his name is Jolly, although I believe his ranching experience is somewhat limited.
Jackknifed, heh, you mentioned showing this thread to your bartender on your [del]Blac[/del] non-Whiteberry. I’d love love love to see the reaction of the faces of the two groups of three dudes mentioned in the OP once they realized the discussion their choice has generated.
Me too. Except the straight part. And whiskey part. And the vodka part. And the sweet German reislings part.
But, other than that, me exactly.
Maybe because Alize isn’t a clear white or pale yellow liquid.