# MaCallan whisky - $90,000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** liquor-alcohol\ **Created:** [March 3, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macallan-whisky-90-000/998382 "2024-03-03T03:54:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macallan-whisky-90-000/998382/45 "2024-03-04T01:00:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@dorvann](#): > > > > This thread reminds me of when a guy got pissed at a restaurant when they told him a wine a cost “Thirty Seven Fifty” and he thought they meant $37.50 when they really meant $3750. > > I’m old enough to remember when that story was about Neiman Marcus cookies, and reading this story doesn’t make it sound any more plausible. We’re expected to believe that the customer asked the waitress (_not_ a sommelier) to recommend a wine, she immediately recommended the single most expensive wine on the menu, and at no point in this process did anyone in the restaurant ask “Just to make sure, you want the thirty-seven-hundred dollar bottle, right?” before corking and serving it? We did a thread on that: > [@I'm calling bullshit on wine story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-calling-bullshit-on-wine-story/703675): > > According to the [article](http://www.aol.com/article/2014/11/04/man-charged-3-750-for-wine-he-thought-cost-37-50/20988551/?ncid=webmail1), Joe Lentini was dining at a restaurant in Atlantic City and ordered a bottle of wine which he thought cost $37.50. But then we he got the bill at the end of the meal, he saw he was being charged $3750. And I’m saying this story doesn’t pass the sniff test. According to Lentini, he asked the waitress to recommend a wine and she was the one who made the suggestion. What kind of waitress would recommend a $3750 bottle of wine? And, again according to Lentini, he asked abo… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macallan-whisky-90-000/998382)._