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.

Shortcross gin

Not go that one (adds to list as everyone needs more gin) Just looked and it says floral so fentimans would be good.

Gin has been a booming market for years now.

I like prosecco but it is just a drink I don't need a meme about it. I think the gin memes are becoming just as annoying as it seems to be the new 'in' drink. Might start a range of special brew sparkly shit in retaliation....

Hula, gin was the big drink in the early 90s but when people realised how much it fucked your skin with gin blossoms it became unpopular again. Plus it was a 'posh' drink but when everybody started drinking it, then it became very common and a bit passé. Which I guess is kind of the Prosecco thing now. It used to be viewed as sophisticated, but, y'know, Wetherspoons sell it by the glass now.

I didn't know gin was making a comeback.

Bottles that sell for €1:90 in France are going for a tenner a pop on the British High Street this Xmas. Go figure.

It is tax. The same with all french wine. You must know that?
£2.67 a bottle on sparkling wine in the uk
2p a bottle in France

I buy cremant in France for sub £5 but they are always about £10 here and the price difference has been the same for the 30 years that I have been doing this. If anything the price difference decreased over the past few years before the pound collapsed.

The task on last week's episode of The Apprentice was to come up with a 'cool' new brand of gin.

Does gin really cause a red face and nose more than other alcoholic drinks?

BillSykesDog

It's the same with Belgian chocolate. Costs a bomb over here but if you go there you can buy kilograms of the stuff for a couple of Euros. My friend from French friend can't believe how much croissants cost over here as though they're some luxury item (although Aldi is changing this slowly) whereas in France you can buy like 15 from the village baker for about a Euro.

Does gin really cause a red face and nose more than other alcoholic drinks?

Mothers ruin. Opium of the people.

Is Beefeater Gin still going? When it was vogue in the 90s, that's the only brand that was nice but still quite cheap.

Is Beefeater Gin still going? When it was vogue in the 90s, that's the only brand that was nice but still quite cheap

Still going on east coast trains. Gin and diet tonic in 1st class. They had Bombay sapphire for a while when they went back into public ownership but now privatised again.

On my birthday recently, I was delighted to receive more cards than usual. Aside from friends and family, there were some from work colleagues and other acquaintances. My joy turned into errr this face! When all of these cards made reference to either prosecco, wine o'clock, or some such you're a girly drunken/mummy type business. I just thought, this is obviously THE go to narrative for 30+ yo mums. It's very much as PP said, the new 'keep calm and....' or in other words, the automatic phrase or assumption used by people who are either completely lacking in imagination, or just can't be arsed. I love a nice glass of wine as much as the next person, but I'm not chugging prosecco at every opportunity just to get through life!! FFS

Thanks re the fentimans suggestion

YY mygorgeousmilo!

Fizz seems more fun and special than wine but champagne is too pricey.

Not on FB so can't comment on that but I did get a bit fed up of constantly being told 'well at least it's wine-o-clock!' or 'oh no, poor you... wine!!' when ds was a newborn, as if wine wold solve all my problems. I wasn't drinking as I was breastfeeding (still am) and ds is a rubbish sleeper so alcohol wasn't a welcome addition to being up all night long... plus when I do drink I prefer a nice ale . I'd never assume someone else drinks and say something similar! And saying it to a new mum who can't drink is just cruel!

Although I think overall in terms of memes and stuff, just ignore and move on.

OP, you are NOT being unreasonable!!

I always feel a bit sorry for people who can only have fun with alcohol, or for whom the most interesting thing they do is drink.

Oh I've just remembered another overpriced foreign thing... Foster's! We went to Australia once to visit family, DP ordered Foster's in a bar and got weird looks.

"Do you not like that here?" DP asked
"Depends if you like the taste of stale piss" the barman replied! [Grin]

According to our friends, no Aussies drink Foster's, you can't even get it in most places.

bigredfireengine Even if tax is £2.67 a bottle here plus transport costs even at the moment we should be looking at the cheap Cremant de Loire being about a fiver a pop, not a tenner! They're selling the really low end bottom of the barrel stuff for a tenner here because the Prosecco drinking crowd look at it and think that it's some sort of classy stuff just because it has bubbles, not realising it's really the plonkiest sort of plonk that I fill my boot with every summer and fucking love.

It's the reason I can't stand 'mum' blogs. The majority of their posts seem to focus on necking gin or wine the minute the kids are in bed and you're only a real mother it you have a wine addiction. Tedious.

SausageSoda Mind you, that sums up a fair proportion of MN posters, whose answer to any woman struggling is "a glass of vino".

I must have no sense of humour because I just don't find alcohol funny in any sense. Everyone else seems to though

Nickname

I would never give alcohol as a present, just my personal opinion and not meant to offend anyone but for me that would be a terrible gift for anyone

I don't know any fundraisers to give them to either, I go to work, visit one friend who also doesn't drink alcohol, and the rest of my time is spent in my house

I never socialise to know anyone who'd like any alcohol!

I only tried prosecco recently and do like it but my drink of choice is always red as prosecco goes down far too easily.

I rarely post anything about drinking on fb, bar the odd night out photo someone tags me in. With two recovering alcoholics on mine and lots of family (we've lost three relatives to alcohol addiction recently) in my mind it's a bit insensitive.

There are a few on my fb that frequently post about drinking and I sometimes wonder if they have a bit of a problem.