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!
Administrator@cstross @stevendbrewer Very close, at least in use! But even the worse scrumpy is made with more love than Boone's Farm.
Boone's Farm is basically Kool-aid mixed with a small amount of pure ethanol. Absolutely no love in it at all.
@mdm @stevendbrewer Whereas scrumpy is made with love and also scrumpy isn't ready to drink until the rat who drowned in the vat has fully dissolved.