to be mystified at people obsessed by prosecco?

[CockacidalManiac]

Fully expecting to get a kicking for this.
On Facebook, in shops. People who seem to have their entire sense of humour based around wine.
Every post on Facebook is some crappy meme about wine o' clock, prosecco or a 'cheeky' glass of wine.

Probably Nickname only I'm still too scared to go near the stuff many many years later after The Chardonnay hangover from hell.

glue if it makes you feel any better, one of my children has what is now considered a very pretentious hipster name but he's bloody 13, it wasn't hipster when he was born, just unusual. I like hygge, just not the way its been marketed here in the UK as another way to get us buying overpriced tat

Anyone else remember Mateus Rose and Lambrusco?

We once bought a bottle of Beaujolais nouveau and it ended up at the back of the cupboard under the stairs, and forgotten about. After around 8 years, we found it and though we'd have to pour it down the sink as it is supposed to be drunk within a few months.

Well... we opened it and decided to taste it before we poured it away, thinking it would be rank. It wasn't. It had matured into a fantastic, smooth red and was awesome.

Hate the stuff
Can't understand it AT ALL!

I like some Prosecco. It's often nicer than Cava, I think.

I know someone whose entire sense of humour revolves around the facts that he is A: tall. B: has a beard.

Some people are just a bit like that. Bloody tedious though.

Its not as bad as some other things people base their personalities around. At least i do also like prosecco. Id prefer to see and hear prosecco based anecdotes and posts over car or sport based things. I think youve got to pick your battles in life and yes, prosecco personality is bland, but at least its not right down the end of the spectrum of awfulness.

But a fan if prosecco at all - really don't get it. Much prefer a good cava.

YANBU - it's bonkers! The amount of Prosecco merch is alarming - someone is buying this shit, why?

Pisses me off. For some reason, I can drink fizzy crap (be it prosecco, cava, champagne) all night and not vomit. 3 of anything else and I vomit.

It all seems to have shot up in price, because it's 'cool'. I suppose I should be thankful that more places serve it by the glass now, but I'm seeing fewer places serving Freixenheit (or frickshit as we call it) and similar - it's always bloody prosecco and it's always over priced.

I drink a shit tonne of prosecco.i don't talk about it all the time though.

I don't get it either. Much prefer the drier character of cava (cheaper too), or champagne proper for special occasions.

I don't get it either. Much prefer the drier character of cava (cheaper too), or champagne proper for special occasions.

If only people knew that Prosecco is basically expensive Buckfast, the drink of neds all over Scotland!

If only people knew that Prosecco is basically expensive Buckfast, the drink of neds all over Scotland

You think that prosecco, a white sparkling wine made with mainly glera grapes which has been made in the same place for over 500 years, is the same thing as Buckfast tonic, which isn't even a wine since it is made with unfermented red grapes mixed with ethanol and caffiene?

Have you already been drinking Buckfast today? Or are you just clueless?

Er, Buckfast is thick brown gloop. I suspect you don't actually know what prosecco is.

Chardonnay is amazing - the champagne grape. Anyone not drinking it for ABC/footballers' wives type reasons is missing out.

The whole thing of adults boasting about drinking - and yes that includes you PILs (in their 80s) - is pathetic. Prosecco is just the latest 'trendy' drink to be boasted about by thick people who are thrilled they can say a foreign word ...

I'm with you OP. I don't drink, and while I understand that many people do enjoy a glass of wine in the evening, personally I do get bored of all the "wine!" and "wine o' clock" comments (although I wouldn't say so out loud).

It's a bit like if everyone kept talking about a life-long series of X Factor/Dr Who/Bake Off but you never watch it. You don't object to other people watching it, but the recurring in-jokes will never be of interest.

It's not just that though, it's the fact that if you don't drink, people always comment and imply you are being either "good" or boring/square. "Oh, you're not drinking! Why not?!" Or conversations about how they went to someone's house "and there was no alcohol, so we didn't enjoy it"

Sorry, I meant to say Blue Nun! No idea why I typed Buckfast. Bloody brain fart.

Blue nun never used to be sparkling but I got some in a secret santa recently and it was!

I agree about the Prosecco 'jokes' being tedious (though I do enjoy a non-cheeky, polite even glass of it from time to time). Don't despair though, gin appears to be being pushed to the forefront now so all those memes will disappear to be replaced by 'happy Ginmass' etc.

It's nothing like blue nun either. And did you not mean to type "the drink of neds all over Scotland" either? Because that's not blue nun.

Actually, Blue Nun is being drunk by Chavs/Neds because it is now incredibly cheap, like Lambrini, so it's a popular tipple at house parties.

And like I said, Blue Nun is fizzy. Or at least the bottle I had last week was, which may have been a certain flavour/brand of Blue Nun and not the normal one.

I've never seen a ned drinking Blue Nun. They must be very retro neds.

It's back in vogue, or at least it is round here. Blue Nun, Scrumpy Jack and Lambrini (all available at your local Iceland, who don't check ID...) are the ones that always seem to be at house parties of older teens round here. I imagine it's similar in other places.

*Frosty Jack's, not Scrumpy Jack (which is actually quite nice).