Charlie StrossRE: https://mastodon.social/@orci/116009155879650410
Living her best life.
(I've gawked inside a Target once, on a long-ago visit to the Excited Snakes of America, and yeah, this is the ONLY way to shop there.)
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️@cstross I wonder what wine pairs well with both sushi and cinnamon rolls…
@stevendbrewer Inari sushi I can see working okay-ish with cinnamon rolls? (It's got that sweet thing going.) Also mochi. But the wine is a head-scratcher. I'm guessing it's MD 20/20; if this had happened in Scotland it'd be Buckfast Tonic Wine (but there's no Target here and Scotmid just doesn't have the same bottomless-pit-of-despair vibe).
@cstross Back in the day, it would have been Boone's Farm. But I don't know what the current thing is. https://vinepair.com/articles/boones-farm-wine-history/
What Happened to Boone’s Farm, Gen X’s Favorite ‘Wine'?
There is perhaps no drink that carves out a space in your memory the way your first sip of alcohol does. Whether consumed illicitly or legally, there’s a high likelihood that simply remembering the beverage is enough to run a shiver down your spine and induce a psychosomatic hangover. But before the youths of today started downing socially acceptable hard seltzers, spiked teas, and boozy lemonades, one wine reigned supreme on the party scene. Well, wine product. First introduced in 1961 by E. & J.
@stevendbrewer Ah, so that's what American X-ers drink instead of scrumpy!
@cstross And, just for reference, Target (pronounced "targé") is where Walmart shoppers go when they want to feel upscale. If you really want to experience the true depths of despair, go to Ocean State Job Lot, which is stocked with stuff that didn't sell anywhere else. Or was returned. https://www.oceanstatejoblot.com/
@stevendbrewer Hey, this is the UK! We have Tesco here. (WalMart tried to break into the supermarket biz, bought ASDA—the third-ranked chain—and made a big noise. A few years later they ran weeping to the anti-trust people. Then they gave up, sold most of their stake in ASDA, and got out. Retailing in the UK is hardcore!)
Simon Greenwood@cstross
Walmart did try and bring some US style practises to the UK but mostly on the management side - I heard stories of having to sing a corporate song in morning meetings, which didn't sit well in Leeds. Their lasting legacy might be the amount of Halloween crap they introduced.
@stevendbrewer
Walmart did try and bring some US style practises to the UK but mostly on the management side - I heard stories of having to sing a corporate song in morning meetings, which didn't sit well in Leeds. Their lasting legacy might be the amount of Halloween crap they introduced.
@stevendbrewer
George BI know that Walmart still have ASDA's George brand of clothes because the fuckers own the .george TLD and don't let anyone register on it.
Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦@cstross @stevendbrewer Now, Tesco came to Poland in 1995 and in 2021 it left, allegedly due to competition from Lidl and Biedronka (which, despite Polish name, currently belongs to Portuguese Jerónimo Martins). Wanna talk about hardcore market?