So I was in the store today buying some beer. I also was looking at wine. I used to not drink much wine but after successfully making some homemade wine I got more interested in the many varieties available. I see a bottle of Carlo Rossi Rhine wine for $3.99.
Hey, I remember back in college(late '70’s early 80’s) the rage was to mix this stuff with Pepsi or Coke.
STOP right there. This thread is not about how awful this Rhine wine is. It’s about the face most of you made when I mentioned mixing it with cola.
That face is represented by the loveable MR. Yuck!.
I’m telling you, we need to get past the hang ups about copy rights, and add Mr. Yuck to our smiley cache’.
Oh, I know it’s not going to happen, and my attempts in the past to get him here have been half-assed at best. All I want is an “Amen” to my belief that Mr. YUCK belongs! Even if only in spirit.
If you’re buying $3.99 bottles of wine from the grocery store, then you deserve whatever taste(?) you get from mixing it with cola. (Or castor oil, pickle juice, llama’s milk, or the slightly acrid, bitter and pungent flavor of Dr. Laura’s voice made into a liquid.)
Actually, many wineries are going to plastic corks nowadays. It maintains the quality of the wine better. The ones still using cork, do so only because of tradition.
For the record, Trader Joe’s carries a “Two-Buck Chuck” (actually named Charles Shaw) that is reputed to be quite good for cheap wine. 2/bottle (at least, in California) Thanks to a glut of wine grapes in California, they're able to get high-quality wine (okay, medium-quality) to the tune of about .25/bottle. A friend of mine, who bought a case of the merlot, said it tasted “young” but not bad for cheap wine.
Heck, at that price you can drink a glass and throw the rest out - or cook with it!
…And Mr. Yuck is cool. I can think of many message boards that could use it.
