Daily Red
6One of the rights of passage is you start to buy into bullshit for the sake of longevity. Mine is gulping a tablespoon of lecithin twice a day and a glass of red wine, preferably a muscadine. Wandering through QT the other day I noticed they had some meh wines displayed and at a price not different from wally’s or publix and one of them was labeled Tarheel Red. Whoa! So what the hell I grab a bottle. Get it home and yes its definitely a desert wine and whoa cranberry juice drowned in karyo syrup and everclear. With a twist cap no less. If you order from the vineyard you get a corked bottle for the same 8 dollar price. But, I figured gas station, they had an image to uphold. Anyway if you live in the carolinas and are too cheap to spend 10 bucks a bottle for duplin, there’s an 8 buck a bottle standin at the gas station.
Never mind.
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And then again you can buy Boone’s Farm by the gallon (or at least many years ago you could)…just sayin’
@Kidsandliz Hey this stuff has a picture of the wright flyer on it. Its worth the price for the label alone.
@Kidsandliz Yesh gosh the stories I can tell about Boones farm apple wine.
@Kidsandliz @cranky1950 I’m not sure that that mixture of water and alcohol with artificial color and a little bit of kerosene and turpentine for flavor actually contains enough grapes to have any health benefits.
Still better than Ripple, though. Less methanol.
@2many2no well maybe with the flammables in there you can burn it for light or heat?
@Kidsandliz
Do not use or consume near sources of heat or open flame. Explosion hazard. 
Consult SDS for full handling and disposal information.
@2many2no
Ok. Thanks.
I remember stuff about warnings and dangers and common sense best when I’m drunk.
Publix is having their semiannual wine clearance. Four shopping carts full of marked-down wine, another two of cider, hard lemonade, and bastardized fruit and booze combos.
@OldCatLady Hmmm guess it’s time to get to publix. Ba tumpte pickles and cuban bread you know. maybe there’ll be wine
@OldCatLady That’s usually when I stock up on wine to cook with. Thanks for the heads up.
@LaVikinga That’s a great idea. I’ve been wanting to experiment a little with cooking with real wine, not the fake stuff…this would be the perfect time to try out a few.
Just so’s ya know… Screw caps aren’t an indication of a subpar wine anymore.
That said, your description suggests it probably deserves the historical stigma.
@eVil Actually it’s a sweet muscadine, they pretty much all taste like that. It comes under the heading of acquired taste.
@cranky1950 Gotcha. I’ve had a few desert wines, but not sure if I had one of those. I’ll have to give it a shot and see if I agree with your comments.
@cranky1950 So “desert” wine is dry, then?
@SSteve no just an s dryer.
@cranky1950
Why is it that I think you might have gotten a little drunk while sitting on a car hood under a flight path near a large airport, passing the evening with the airline special effects coming by every do often.?
Why is it that I believe you might have done this recently?
/giphy envious
@f00l can’t do that anymore, they send out the rentacops. terrorism donchano. Laying on the hood of your car at the end of the runway is kinda fun.
@cranky1950 Buy a house under the flight path of your local military airstrip. Of course, you might want to look at the map of historical crashes from that airstrip.
@cranky1950
Did that a lot as teenagers. Was kinda lovely.
@OldCatLady Nah full burner takeoffs on reserve weekends are extremely annoying and could get me a room at gitmo hilton.
@cranky1950 Good times! Especially with some of the Boones Farm @kidsandliz mentioned earlier, now that brings back some memories
/image “daily red”
/image “georgia red”
@f00l Go Dawgs!!!
I misread “muscadine” as “mescaline”… now that would change up your daily routine!
@djslack Hmm. Mescaline wine. Sounds like something Hunter S would be fond of.
@djslack I’m in.
@cranky1950
@djslack
@eVil
In.
/giphy mescaline
@djslack That was the greatest drug, never bad, no addiction, no downside. You can see why it had to go away
@cranky1950 What year and under what president was it made illegal? I remember 1968, when acid was legal. In some states. Not from personal experience.
@cranky1950
It really sucks that young people taking hallucinogens turned out not to bring about anything close to more social justice or empathetic awareness or entrepreneurial energy or serious surfing skills or great lit or grad school diplomas or anything like that.
I’d say our evolutionary tendencies missed a rad opportunity there.
@OldCatLady I think LBJ 67,68 I think as soon as itchycoo park hit #1.
I think it was in retaliation for this
@cranky1950
You are kind and you are cruel.
Small Faces.
Been a while. Thx.
@f00l
Eh, lower middeclass white flight to the repubnacant party and the young americans for nixxon coming into moms and dadums money kinda put the kibosh on any evolution.
note the vest with stars and stripped pockets, were a coupla hundred wandering about Miami Beach in 1972 they all seemed to have names like Chad, Steffie, Meghan and Biff.
@cranky1950
/rant
I lot of it has to do with super simplistic and inaccurate mental pix of economics. The hippies “grew up” from communists but failed to think beyond Friedman.
Obamacare is supposed to have spurred a large number of small business starts. Because people had health insurance and could afford the risk of trying to start their own thing.
Duh.
I love trying to hear the Freedom Caicus types try to explain how an insurance pool works.
Same with education. These politicians want to do “this program” or “that program” thrown in with a few “punish the teacher” and “teach to the test” incentivizers. And, hey, how about government $ great private schools, to help the few students who can access one?
But they don’t want to fund the basics. How about desks and textbooks? How about student-teacher ratio? How about giving kids hard info on how to think, learn, focus, stay healthy?
No way they’re gonna teach true critical thinking, that could undermine a right-wing agenda and send kids toward data and facts. Many schools aren’t trying to teach even at the level of the Khan Academy, which they can coordinate with for free.
Perhaps if they punish the poor, the poor will try harder?
To me, apart from considerations of fairness and decency and goodness and innovation and economic growth, how is it that we can afford not to make superb education free or nearly free, at least thru a BA or BS level? For reasons of national security?
China doesn’t have our philosophical drama about funding education. They just do it.
Guess who the leading business, tech, and military tech power will be in 25-50 years?
Now students round the world who can get in flock to Harvard, MIT, Texas, Michigan, Stanford, etc.
I fear that in 50 years our great universities will be also-rans, and our best young minds will all try to attend the world’s best universities - which will likely be in Beijing and Shanghai.