A few years back, the San Francisco city council, wanted liquor stores to stop selling fortified wines in areas of the city inhabited by alcoholics. The reasoning was, these “wines” were not intended to accompany a lunch of spaghetti, or a dinner of cioppino-they are manufactured for the express purposs of getting someone drunk, as quickly and as cheakply as possible!
Should alcoholic street people be prohibited from purchasing “Mad Dog” or Boonesfarm?
A lot of street people are struggling with addictions…why add to the problem by selling them cheap wine?
They’d just buy cheap vodka or whiskey if you banned fortified wines. Besides this is based on the assumption that all people who buy fortified wines are either alcoholics who want to quit or a nuisance. Not all are.
Does anyone else remember the days of the two-liter wine cooler?
I swear Everclear made a cooler-type product. I know it came in purple & I think it came in red. If the Boone’s ran out there was always the Purple Everclear two-liter to fry your braincells. (Too bad it looks like blood coming up. :eek: )
I just love how you can describe these wines by color.
Ahhh, Boone’s. Sweet ambrosia. A college friend got married recently - instead of toasting with champagne, they toasted with Boone’s. Snow Creek Berry, the only flavor to buy. Good stuff.
One time, we went to a store and bought their entire stock of Boone’s. “Looking for a cheap drunk?” said the cashier. Priceless.
Boone’s. Accept no substitutes.
And what is this jungle juice of which you speak? Ahhh, you mean wop. It’s all so clear now. Doesn’t matter really what you put into it - after a while it all tastes like Hawaiian Punch.
So?
(And “breakfast cereal aftertaste” is a hilarious description. Take that, Robert Parker!)
“But I don’t wanna drink cheap wine!”
Jeez, people, it’s like you’ve never seen a straight line before. :rolleyes:
When I spent my teenage summers in rural North Carolina, I’d work in the tobacco fields for pocket cash. It was hard, back-breaking work, but there was literally nothing else to do. And a week of work in the fields could net you a hundred bucks or so… so WTH.
The farmers would supply water and “lunch” which was seldom more than a couple packages of Nabs and a soda. But at the end of the day, the foreman would break out a quart or two of Mad Dog…
And an envelope of unsweetened Grape Kool-Aid mix.
You see, the high school labor force of North Carolina in the 80’s wasn’t a bunch of winos. We had more refined tastes, and the sweetness of fortified wines were offensive to our palates. So they took the edge off of the Mad Dog and Thunderbird by adding extra flavor.
I tell ya, it was just like Welch’s Grape Juice…
NOT!!
I forgot I had it, honestly. Being the young single male type, I tend to live off the carby goodness of my cabinets and only open the fridge to blindly grope for a soda but at your reminder, I just poured myself a small glass.
Whereas Boone’s Farm tastes like a General Mill’s product, Arbor Mist is more like something you’d expect from Welch’s. I have about the same taste for ethanol as Wesley Clark so when an alcoholic beverage tastes like juice to me, it’s pretty damning.
At least the aftertaste approximates something vaguely strawberry though.
Boone’s is the best. For the ultimate, try Melon Ball. I just love that neon green color! And at 3 dollars a bottle how can you go wrong?
No, you got it all wrong. What you really need to do is leave it in the brown bag from the liquor store. Because anyone who sees a bright blue/red/green liquid in a big bottle like that, they will automatically know what it is. If the bottle is fully concealed by the bag, then its really a mystery. Plus you’ll look cooler.
I never liked the brown bag approach. I am proud to drink right from the bottle.
Well, if you’re interested in that sort of ethanol value and if I’m interested in enabling, in WV I can get you 1.75L of Everclear for $30! 190 proof…just think of how little trouble getting messed up would be then!!