heres some prices from a place ive bought things from … now its in British pounds
I like your style.
At a neighborhood yard sale, the collector had a nice selection of Star Wars toys still in the box. I spotted a Kenner X-Wing and had to have it. The price was great so I bought it.
My wife, a bit annoyed, asked what I was going to do with it.
I told her I was going to take it home, take it out of the box, put the stickers on it, and play with it!
The “collector” who was still holding my cash turned pale white. It made my day. (And I did in fact play with it, still do on occasion!)
One of the stores where I sometimes shop makes “grown-up mac & cheese”, which is basically overpriced mac & cheese made with truffles. I can appreciate truffles with some dishes but for me, it just ruins the mac & cheese.
Agreed; the one time I tried that, it was okay but nothing I’ll bother buying again.
Mrs. Martian and I used to buy a case of her favorite Belgian quad with the intention of cellaring half the case for a year or two. For some reason none of the bottles made it past about three months…
The bottles of Gordon & MacPhail and Obam were nice. I think part of the pleasure can be the ritual of the thing, and that includes the bottle.
Good whisky does have a rich and complex flavor which i enjoy.
I had kind of the opposite experience. My father took the family out to dinner at a fancy restaurant. And he picked out a bottle of wine from the menu, and it was delivered to our table.
And it was fabulous. My mother, who never really drank, tasted my father’s glass and decided to have a glass of her own. We all talked about how great it was.
Later in the evening, the sommelier came to our table. There had been a mistake. The wine my father ordered was new to their menu, and the waiter had accidentally brought a wine with a similar name that he was more familiar with. An enormously more expensive wine. The sommelier explained that as it was a mistake on their part, they would charge us for the wine my father had ordered, but he wanted us to know what we had just consumed.
We assured him that we had enjoyed it.
That’s the most expensive bottle of wine I’ve ever had. It really was better.
I just peeked at some of your posts to see if you were my niece (your brother didn’t keep trying to say his address as ‘Thnowberry Thircle’, did he?) … because the exact same thing happened to my sister’s family. VINO JACKPOT!
I had a $100 bottle of The Mac. It was good, but the person who gave it to me did it for the most self-serving reasons. Just to bolster their own smugness and let me know what a savage I was for drinking cheap booze. A real Asshole.
But I drank it anyway. Enjoyed it very much!
Filled the empty bottle with Rot-gut, and displayed it prominently! (Just Kidding!) 
Sadly, both my uncles have died in the past couple of years. So unless you are posting from being the grave (hey, what’s it like on the other side?) I’m pretty sure i am not your niece.
I just checked my calendar for the last year: did not die.
(Darn, I would’ve been so proud to have a doper niece.)
I was flying through Heathrow a while back and spotted this in a specialty liquor store. Only £4250, but a nice start to a collection.
This concept of a “trained palate” is so hilarious. Do you like the taste or not? That’s how you determine if it’s “good.”
The Whisk(e)y Tribe’s mantra: The best whiskey is the one you like drunk the way you like it.
Some people only experience it as a shot, or a cocktail ingredient. Others put it on a pedestal, rebuking anyone who approaches a bottle without pointed opinions and cryptic acronyms.
My Tribe is cut from a different cloth.
If you can appreciate an exceptional pour, while not taking the venture too seriously, you’re my kind of people. Let the shooters throw it back with reckless abandon. Let the snobs eat their own young. You and me? Whisk(e)y is part of our journey, but let’s never forget our destination: a Magnificent experience with our favorite people.
Which has what to do with my post?
Nothing at all. And also
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That’s something rich people, who can’t possibly spend all of their money, serve to other rich people at a very rich people’s party. I wonder how much better it is than, say, the 18-year old MaCallan. Not 90 Large better, I’ll bet.