On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:30:21 -0400, Goomba38 >
magnanimously proffered:

>Steve Pope wrote:
>
>> It's always correct to drink a basic red wine out of a tumbler, but
>> for that I have the thick Mexican ones made from melted-down coke
>> bottles, with the blue-ish rims. And red wine in any sort of
>> cut crystal is straight out unpleasant for me.
>
>Ha. Almost every Italian family I know (or knew) drinks family red outta
>small juice glasses, lol. Something that probably once came in a box of
>laundry soap or dish soap box fifty years ago. The Murano glass is in
>the dining room, sure...but the everyday stuff came outta a soap box. Or
>perhaps a frozen shrimp cocktail from the grocery store many years ago. LOL

Got tired of people spilling wine - especially red - and having to
hand wash tall, fragile & expensive wine glasses instead of being able
to use the dishwasher. So unless it's a really REALLY special occasion
that includes our adult children (who love drinking out of the
surviving family crystal), we serve wine in nice, big glasses with
heavy, weighted bottoms (like good whisky tumblers). Doesn't mean we
still don't have the occasional spill, but at least they're now few
and far between.


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una cerveza mas por favor ...

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