Need Cheese

@Kidsandliz only wine.woot now requires this.

@pitamuffin What kind of cheese would Meh sell? Amehrican, mehzzerella, perhaps some Emmehental?

@rockblossom How about some Mehnster cheese?

@bluedog Yup. And I'd love muffins with some nice Mehscarpone.

@rockblossom I think you mean some Mehfins

@rockblossom meh. no gouda

@bluedog Maybe it's my canceled debit card. Amazon seems to hate it.

@Cerridwyn Thank you for the explanation. I've never purchased from wine.woot so I wasn't aware of the change in payment methods.

@cengland0 @editorkid linked the blog announcement a few comments up.

@Thumperchick I must be going blind or something but I do not see any other post from you in this thread.

@cengland0 it wasn't me. It was @editorkid...

@Thumperchick Got it, thanks. I read part of it and it appears to be done for legal reasons with a staff member saying, "I can't get into the details, but this was done for compliance with new laws, not to appease our glorious overlords. " I still have doubts because there are other companies that sell wine and accept credit card payments.

@cengland0 I think that staff member meant to say "I can't get into the details, which are a figment of my imagination, but this was done for compliance with new laws which do not exist, not to appease our glorious overlords who completely pulled this bogus policy out of their glorious ass." If it actually had anything to do with a law, they would cite the law.

@SSteve The laws are state by state. And vary widely. If Amazon has a transaction processing method they know complies, sometimes you can just trust Occam's razor.

@editorkid I love Occam's razor. When you hear hooves you think horses, not zebras.

@JonT What if you think hippogriffs?

@JonT Or Jello?

@Teripie Agree. This is one of my life philosophies. Another: Any one of life's problems can be solved by a South Park reference. Test me.

@marklog I just got crazy Déjà vu...

@JonT red rocket notwithstanding.

@xarous Man that sounds crazy, I've been in Texas for a year now and I'm not used to their crazy laws. I'm still annoyed that I can't buy liquor at the grocery store or buy beer and wine before noon on Sunday.

@JonT There are a few counties around me that are still "dry", they don't sell any beer, wine, or spirits. I hear their crystal meth is good though, lol.

@JonT I lived in Norway for a year. Texas sounds a lot like that. Except in Norway you couldn't buy any liquor at all on Sunday.

@xarous Grayson County for the win? loss? draw?

@SSteve Same here, you can't buy any liquor on Sunday just beer or wine.

@xarous Actually, I don't get why people would buy wine mail-order. I'd never buy one I haven't tasted, and I'm a gambler. I bought lots of great foods from the site (I really only glance at wine.woot on Thursdays), but they clearly lost interest in that a couple of years ago.

@JonT Ha det bra!

@JonT Coming to NY from CA, I remember my first grocery store trip and we went looking for the liquor section. All we found was disappointment.

@editorkid If you would never buy a wine you never tasted before, how did you taste it for the first time? Did you attend a free wine tasting event in your local area or something?

@cengland0 Well, yeah, my neighborhood actually has a few wine shops with regular tastings. As for "how did I taste it for the first time," that's kind of a pedantic question, but obviously we editors are down with those and love telling a good story, so: I can't remember at all, but it was probably a social event, like almost everyone.

@JonT @xarous Pennsylvania has similar shitty liquor laws. Up until a few years ago, no beer or wine/liquor on Sundays. And, now, only certain places are open from noon-5pm on Sundays. All beer over a 12-pack must be bought at a "beer distributor". All liquor/wine must be bought at a state-owned "wine & spirits" store. If buying 6-packs or 12-packs from a bar or pizza place, one person is only allowed to carry out 12 cans/bottles at a time. So, if you wanted to buy two 12-packs, you would have to make two trips to your car. Weird laws, I tell ya.

@jsh139 Wow that sounds like next-level crazy! I guess by comparison things aren't so bad here.

@JonT it's goofy, for sure. Luckily DE and NJ are close-by with their extremely relaxed liquor laws :)

@editorkid Don't think you understood the question. Even if you were at a social event, that person probably bought the wine. Eventually, if you go back far enough, someone probably bought the wine without tasting it first. Your comment is like saying you would never go to a restaurant that you've eaten at before.

@cengland0 Of course I understood the question, Perry Mason; I just thought it was dumb. You're suggesting (whether you're trolling is a question I'm leaving open) that my "I'd never buy [a wine] I haven't tasted" is actually "I have not now nor have I ever bought one I haven't tasted," and that doesn't hold up under cross-examination, Mr. Darrow. I gather you're on a desert island where wine.woot smartpost is your only option, but to flesh out my other earlier comment, the neighborhood I've lived in for 13 years has three wine shops that offer tastings, one on demand if you're a regular, which I am not now (because after all that wine tasting, it turned out beer is better) but I have been (because of all that wine tasting). Is there a more productive line of questioning you'd like to badger the witness with, Mr. Medaglia? (He was my dad's lawyer when I was a kid.)

@editorkid I must live a very risky life because I buy so many food and drink products without first attending a taste test of them. Sure there are some that I don't like and I just don't buy them again.

@JonT When I was growing up in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, you couldn't even buy beer and wine on Sundays. (No sales in supermarkets then, don't know about now, I moved in '97.) I think in the late '80s they started letting liquor stores open on Sundays from Thanksgiving week to New Year's week. After that went OK for a while, they finally opened it up to the rest of the year. The Boston suburb I grew up in, Arlington, didn't even allow restaurants to serve beer and wine with dinner; there still aren't any liquor stores or bars, and I don't know whether BYO is allowed, but restaurants and clubs like the Elks can now serve beer and wine.

@cengland0 Well, see, "food and drink products," I do that too. Wine, no.

@editorkid I'm with @cengland0, when I buy wine I buy it based on the type of wine and then how cool and interesting the label is usually. But I like trying new things and honestly I've never had a bad wine so maybe my palate isn't all that sophisticated.

@JonT @editorkid I go by type, price, and label for wine purchases if there hasn't been a review or recommendation. That said, I refuse to travel to places I've never been before.

@JonT I think my palate is less sophisticated than yours because I can't distinguish between a bad wine and a wine I don't like. I can do that with beer, though, and I'd rather stick with something I like drinking more of anyway. But what you and @ChadP say about labels make me wonder whether there's a Wine Label Dictator like the Beer Labor Dictator. (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/12/meet-the-beer-bottle-dictator.html for those who missed this.)

@editorkid Totally crazy story. That guy sounds like a pain in the ass.