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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-08-05

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-07:

"Whenever one of those peripatetic culinary-travel series on the Food Network pulls into North Carolina, Texas or Tennessee for an episode on American barbecue -- as they all eventually seem to -- I get the urge to teleport myself through the screen like a culinary superhero and save the day with a bottle of zinfandel.

"The beverage of choice in these shows is usually either a) soda pop or b) American beer, which are perfectly fine if you happen to be a) a teetotaller or b) fond of water." -- Beppi Crosariol, wine writer, in a recent review of Ravenswood Vintners Blend Zinfandel 2003 (California).

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)

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posted by [identity profile] trinsf.livejournal.com at 09:41am on 2007-08-05
That particular wine is one of my sweetie [livejournal.com profile] ewhac's favorite's. :-)
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 05:55pm on 2007-08-05
Zinfandel with genuine American barbecue? The type where people put things like Southern Comfort in the sauce? Give me a break... If you're going to do the food correctly, you'd better be drinking either pop or American beer with that stuff, because that's sort of how it's done. Does he want hotdogs served at ballparks to be accompanied with a saucy Merlot, too?

Sheesh...
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Ah, the Stink of Rotten Grapes

posted by [identity profile] sodyera.livejournal.com at 07:10pm on 2007-08-05
I have a chronic beef (pun) with people who insist that drinking wine is the be-all and end-all of civilised society. Every sip of wine that has ever been offered to me tastes like stale grape juice, or worse. I'll take a good, cold Dr. Brown's Black Cherry or Frank's Cherry Wishniak over the finest Bordeaux, and a bottle of Canada Dry Ginger Ale over the classiest Pouilly Fuisée. And if I wanna get stoned, I'll cook something nice with marijuana in it.
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posted by [identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com at 08:09pm on 2007-08-05
Leaving aside the fact that "save the day with a bottle of wine" is a phrase that should be reserved for Washington cocktail weenie-fests in which our aupposed betters plan What's Right For The Little Folks Who Don't Know Any Better, it's exceptionally ridiculous to make that claim for barbecue, which really DOESN'T go with wine at all. (Not that anything really does, IMO, but I'll allow that there are some folks for whom spoiled grapes are a reasonable choice of beverage).

Personally, I'nm both fond of water and a teetotaller, and I'll choose an imported beer to go with my barbecue every time, Mr. Wine Snob (emphasis on the "Snob").
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