Just a rant. I know you'll understand. WHY do people bring over the cheapest, worst stuff they can find? Here's what happened. Friend Jen asks to show a DVD at my house of this class being taught here. Sure, no problem. Friend Jen says, I'll bring a bottle of wine as a thank you for letting these people in your house. GREAT! I could use some wine. DH has been gone this week and the kids are getting antsy crazy. So, what does she bring??? Not some yummy Spanish wine, not a nice Italian Pinot Grigio, both available at our little shopette on base or at the bodegas in town. Nope, she brings (and my sincere apologies if you truly do enjoy this; it's just not something I really enjoy) Arbor Mist Raspberry Zinfindel 2.5% alcohol (not actually sure about the AC but sure seemed that way). You know, that's fine (barely) if you don't know the person well. But she and I have drank together and discussed the wonders of wine and bread! Okay, she is a cheap person though at her DH's rank she has no real excuse. Thanks for letting me vent. Even the vineyard that makes the what I call Target brand boxed wine (as I've only seen it sold there) was better than this stuff. (I loved that Target wine, the Pinot G.) Have a great Thirsty Thursday! Maybe if the wine was better I wouldn't have had to correct my spelling!

You have reasonable grounds to end the friendship. Arbor Mist Raspberry Zinfindel 2.5% alcohol. Not sure that this even qualifies as wine.

You have reasonable grounds to end the friendship. Arbor Mist Raspberry Zinfindel 2.5% alcohol. Not sure that this even qualifies as wine.

Gah, that's not even wine...it's like a wine punch or something. Gah, yeck. I'm sure it's mostly surgar and fruit juice with a "splash" of wine. It's the kind of crap HS girls drink to try and feel cool, but even a wine cooler would be less poser than that.

I am not a wine drinker but that's only one step above MD 20/20 isn't it?

know what's worse than someone bringing arbor mist to your house. having your wife's cousin bring it to a party put in your freezer (why????) and forget about it so it freezes and breaks leaving broken glass on chunks of frozen pink alcohol all over the food in my my freezer some of it though didn't freeze and pooled at the bottom of the freezer where it became a pond of frozen sticky crappy alcohol

Several steps below, IMHO. I would rather drink MD 20/20 than that arbor mist crap. At least the MD actually has alcohol in it. 18% to be exact, but lately there's been a 13% variety. Which is still better than 2.5% if I'm remembering my math.

Good point. And it's probably cheaper. More booze, less $$...better deal to me. Plus the MD isn't trying to be anything...it doesn't put on any airs. It's just MD. And it comes in fun colors like blue and green! Heck, Boone's Farm is probably better than Arbor Mist.

MD always gave me terrible gut rot. I think that's why I only had it 2-3 times in my late teens before I said "screw that crap."

Speaking of, what is that banana stuff that dentists use? It's nasty, but it does make the novocain injections a bit less excruciating.