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

>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

Not a jelly glass?


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