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.

I think it's a bit mean to say that people who chat about drinking and have a bit of camaraderie with other wine/Prosecco/whatever drinkers. If you lead a busy lifestyle you can't be doing exciting hobbies every evening and having brilliantly entertaining stories to tell everyone. Sometimes it's nice to think that while we're at home enjoying a nice meal and a drink we enjoy, we've got friends and family out there doing the same thing in their homes. These days with Facebook etc I think the reason people enjoy sharing these 'mundane' little life pleasures is that it creates a feeling of togetherness.

Remember a lot of us are exhausted parents, I'm on some other parenting groups on Facebook as well as Mumsnet, and the one thing a lot of us have in common is that we like to unwind with a glass of wine at the end of a hard day. Same goes for coffee, chocolate, etc. There aren't that many things that a wide range of friends, family and acquaintances have in common - but liking wine is usually one of them.

Just realise that my first sentence made no sense (haven't been on the booze, honest!) I meant to say it's a bit mean to call these people dull or boring.

I don't like prosecco, I don't mind drinking it, but it does awful things to my stocmach. . Love cava and champagne though and no issues with them.

Plus I think prosecco is too sweet. The reason prosecco can be sold on tap is that it is not as fizzy as cava/champagne. In fact, lots of prosecco being switched to screw top (which you can't do with cava and champagne, as would pop off). A big showy cork is totally unnecessry in prosecco.

In fact, to be honest, I hate everything about prosecco. It's an imposter. ()

I feel like I grew out of drinking, and thinking drinking was cool when I was 20.

I do have the odd drink now and again. But I find grown adults who seem to centre their whole lives around drink very tedious.

Or the horror hangover stories. Fuck up love. I don't want to hear about how much you vomited. It is as if the measure of the fun you had last night is how awful you feel the next day. Grow up!

YANBU, it's not just prosecco either, gin is another 'favourite' of some of my Facebook friends.

One or two I'm sure have a drink problem, but they dress it up as 'look at me, aren't I interesting/cool/sociable!'.

I find it a bit sad really. You like a drink, how wonderful. So do many others but they don't feel the need to post incessantly about it. It's not like they're young and alcohol is a relatively new thing to them either, a lot of the people I'm thinking about are in their 40's. It's like some sort of mid-life crisis!

The gin woman isn't dull and boring, believe me, I have plenty of up dates of her many hobbies, weekend dashes, holidays, working in other countries..... But she is the Gin woman.

I tried prosecco years ago when I worked in an Italian restaurant as a teenager and have been choosing it for a good fifteen years over champagne. It pisses me off slightly that now it's so popular as to be thought of as a bit common!

Excessive drinking is a rising concern with regards to females. The dink companies are always looking to find and expand new markets/customer bases. To what extent does clever marketing have to do with this prosecco craze.

People who bang on about drinking are dull as people who bang on about their kids.

Makes me want to pluck my eyes out and stick them in my ears.

I think it is about making a statement about yourself that is more than just what you drink. Drinks have often been used as a badge of identity. And clever drinks marketers know this and use this.

What does 'cheeky' mean in this context anyway? Is it an 'Ooh look at me, aren't I naughty, I drink ALCOHOL' sort of thing?

Plus I think prosecco is too sweet.

I've only ever had dry prosecco (though it does vary). People seem to confuse it with Asti Spumante.

Oh God. One of my Facebook friends only ever posts about prosecco or about her sport/hobby. So boring.

What pisses me off is that if you don't join in with the "cheeky" drinking culture you're dull and boring.

Because girly conspiratorial giggle drinking makes us such fun people!

It's fucking annoying.

For a lot of people Facebook is a way of marketing the image that you want people to see about you. So its normal to use props such as certain types of drinks to help create this image. Its a little sad in my book.

I don't get all these "intoxicating/tipsy" tea parties that seem to be everywhere. If I have afternoon tea, I want the teapot to be full of tea, not bloody prosecco!!

Yet I feel like an alien because I don't like this sort of stuff.

I think it's the equivalent of chocolate shoes and handbags: 'what women like'. Women become a massive homogenous clot of fluffy brained fools. See also 'yummy mummy'.

I may well be reading too much into this but those signs pissed me off.

"People who bang on about drinking are dull as people who bang on about their kids."

What else are people supposed to chat about then? Politics? Sport? Hobbies? Some people think those things are dull too.

What does 'cheeky' mean in this context anyway?

Same as a 'cheeky Nando's'.

I enjoy driving wine, beer, Cava, and yes, Prosecco. But I'm totally with you OP. The "humour" surrounding it all is pretty tedious.

I've noticed recently that it's become harder to buy a nice greetings card. All the cards aimed at women feature hilarious jokes about wine o'clock etc. Shelves and shelves of them.

(add joke about going off for a glass of wine to recover...)

I much prefer cava and don't understand the prosecco hype at all. A gaggle of women at the nativity play were wearing matching prosechohoho jumpers after coming from, judging by their behaviour, a very prosecco filled lunch. Tedious in the extreme.

A girl I was at university with said she decided to be a goth because "it's easier than developing a personality." I think the prosecco thing is similar.

I love prosecco, btw. And all sorts of wine and beer and whisky and gin. Can't stand tequila, though. I wonder if I can forge a personality out of my hatred of tequila...

LoisWilkeson's brilliant way of putting it: 'It's just the latest thing to be wankified...'

Yep! Also this has happened with gin...

FaFoutis Yes! I agree. A couple of years ago greetings cards were all chocolate, shoes and handbags. Silly women eh.