To wonder should we be having wine every evening

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I was watching Midsomer Murders last night and every meal was accompanied by wine. It's the same with other programmes - anytime anyone arrives home from work they take a bottle of wine out of the fridge; it someone is making dinner they have a glass of wine on the counter while they're chopping the onions; and every meal is accompanied by a nice bottle on the table.
DH and I would usually have a couple of glasses of wine with our dinner on a Sat evening and sometimes on Fri as well depending on what's going on with DD.
But AIBU to now be wondering if we should be chilling with wine every evening like the folks on the telly?

I met Cully once on holiday. She was very very nice.

The wine thing is a sort of lazy shorthand-middle class status indicator. The equally lazy working class equivalent is cups of tea and smoking. The aristo version is (I think) seeing them drink sherry or whisky in very old glasses. Wearing red trousers.

And the nouveau riche are usually enjoying their drink, which usually comes complete with umbrella, on a sun lounger beside the indoor pool.

Well 'they' keep saying a glass a day is good for you (not good for the purse though) but I agree with Maltesecat saying I think when you make drinking and indeed any kind of indulgence a routine thing it bleeds all the joy out of it It does for me too, I like it to be a treat so one or two evenings a week is enough for me.

Coronation Street is the worst for me, sometimes every scene shows every character necking back the booze. What happened to a good brew?

Nothing wrong with it as long as you are fully aware of the patterns .....
I have a friend who is not an alcoholic, but discovered that she was nevertheless completely alcohol dependant
Deprived of her half bottle in the evenings (never more - just chilling, with dinner) she went into meltdown.
Now TT.

That's the problem. I used to have wine every evening and it got to a stage where if I couldn't have it for whatever reason I felt edgy and in bad form and really missed it.
So now just keep it as a nice weekend treat or a social drink.

senses- I agree about corrie (and easties and emmerdale too!)

they all seem to go in the pub for lunch and then again straight after work. I haven't been a pub since march and that was a Saturday evening.

I bet the 96 grandma had a smidgen of gin , a teeny glass of wine & a tiny brandy

My aunt drinks a whisky a day but a teeny tiny amount

Big wine glasses are a relatively new thing too

It always amazes me in Corrie the way people who work with machinery seem to think nothing of having a pint or two at lunch time.
And yes, a lot of them are straight back in there after work but none of them seem to have a drink problem. The beer must be seriously watered down in The Rovers.

and in emmerdale you see cain or adam in the pub at lunch then driving about the village later. or Katie going back up to cope with all those horses.

Those big glasses are lethal. People think 'oh I only had a glass of wine with dinner and another one watching Mastercher' not realising they've probably had about six or seven units in one night.

I actually tried to buy some small old fashioned wine glasses recently for use when just having some wine with our dinner and they don't seem to be on sale anymore.

I have a mate who states that she has 'one glass of wine in the evening' which is seemingly good for you, until you realise that said glass is as big as her head!

So no need for wine every evening - you'd get a muffin top!

Masterchef even!

I normally have a couple of glasses of wine an evening - I love wine! But the last week far too hot, so have been sticking to flavoured sparkling water instead.

Arabesque, always thought it was short for something else. Thanks for that have texted dh. How freakin sad is that.

Wine Wednesday anyone?

I have also noticed it is in every programme now, in soaps, in dramas, as you say, OP.

On one level, I think its better than the cruddy pints of lager accompanied by 20 Bensons/Marlboroughs I used to drink in my misspent youth.

I think wine is an amazing drink, the drink of the Gods. And I usually have a large glass a day.

(That said, I do think I could do with going without it for a while).

I'm surprised in a way that it hasn't come up as an issue in the way glamourising smoking did. I like wine as much as the next person, but I wonder if normalising it on telly and making out that successful professional people drink copious amounts of it at home has had an effect on the public. (Or maybe I'm overthinking this!).

I agree it's a TV shorthand. Also when you watch tv and see wine plus fluffy white dressing gowns... Affair. Always.

Well, if it is part of the culture of where you live, I see no harm in a glass with supper. But if it means spending a fortune on imported stuff, I would think again.
Should add that I live in a large wine-growing area, so buy locally, direct from the grower. I don't drink wine every evening, although I did have a glass with lunch today.