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I Wouldn’t Exactly Call It a Harbinger of Doom…
… but I’ll be damned if I know what else to call it. Supply chain shortages just hit me where I live.
I just bought a brand of bourbon other than my usual, because I’m out of my usual and my liquor store is out of glass bottles of the stuff I drink. They have it in plastic bottles. What man drinks his bourbon out of a plastic bottle?
OK, I don’t drink it out of the bottle. But you get the point.
No, it’s not a catastrophe, but you can see catastrophe from here.
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Aren’t you lucky. Not many? I would say most of us.
Where do you live, @chrisoler? My avocado tree will soon begin giving forth the world’s best avocados. We can’t keep up (we’re in SoCal, near Pasadena)
This thread made me thirsty. I’m calling cocktail hour 36 minutes early …
Plastics?
Curious what you usual is, and what you like about it. Get a Waterford Crystal Decanter, and pour your plastic bottle into it.
I suspect that if I poured Jim Beam into a Waterford Crystal Decanter it would spit it back out…
In fact, my usual is Jim Beam. I like it just fine: it’s smooth enough, cheap enough, and has a slightly lower alcohol content (80 proof) than, for example, what I bought today to replace it (Evan Williams, 100 proof).
I’m not a connoisseur of any food or beverage. I tried a bunch of bourbons, this one hit a sweet spot in terms of price and drinkability, and so that’s what I buy.
I’ve never been a drinker, have really only had beer, wine, and bourbon, and now drink only bourbon. I drink one glass, four or five ounces, a night, practically every night. I drink at home, alone, and only after 9pm, while I’m reading or writing. I never drink when I’m out.
Oh, and I drink it neat. Because I’m not an animal.
This is ours:
I bet you don’t even by wine by the box.
Moving right along – what does your local bootlegger use? Glass or plastic?
Earthenware.
Exactly. If the Koreans can bury their Kimchi in it, why shouldn’t we drink our bourbon from it? Overcome & Adapt.
Or wine out of screw-too bottles.
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You see an amazing number of RVs with Oregon plates.
Do they still make Boone’s Farm?
Pleaae stop the feuding. There’s plenty of room in this world for Talisker and Maker’s Mark.
It just doesn’t seem right that they vote for those taxes and then evade them.
Glad to be living where I do. Local whiskey, from local ingredients. (The only exception is their peated bourbon. They do get the peat from Scotland. Everything else is grown/raised/found around here.)
Also, WRT to the post title, “I Wouldn’t Exactly Call it a Harbinger of Doom,” and the post’s ending words, “but you can see catastrophe from here,” my inner pedant is urging me to point out to you that that is exactly why it’s called a “harbinger.” So the situation described in the post, vis-a-vis the title, is, exactly, a harbinger of catastrophe/doom.
There is some wonderful small-vintner boxed wine in France. My French son-in-law is a wine connoisseur and took us to a small vintner near Lyon who makes boxes some wonderful product.
Bota Box wine is really yummy. I like the Chardonnay, but they’ve got several others. You can find it at CVS & Walmart for $15 a box, which is 4 bottles. Great stuff!
I wrote about the bourbon shortage in Ohio here. My last trip to the liquor store, I have to move up to buying a 1.75 ml bottle of my favorite rather than my normal 1L. Oh the humanity!
I rest my case!
I thought they were trying to get rid of plastic because it’s not biodegradable? I’ve never heard of alcohol in plastic bottles! I thought the screw top replacing real corks on wine bottles was bad!
Hilarious! Every doomsday post should be accompanied with a funny video – new Ricochet requirement! (or at least a picture of Bob –@kentforrester
Ricochet needs to add an “astonished button” because Like doesn’t cut it here. That is terrible Anne! How long in business??
We’re in transition right now in a rental while we build, and had to purchase a few furniture pieces that we were lacking. Our old house had a lot of built in’s which were great. The price of furniture was high for not very good quality. We found some very good pieces in some beach cottage type places – that were reasonable. The vendors said they were having trouble getting inventory and were getting concerned.
I had a very well made pine table that we’ve had for decades, used on a porch, refinished by my friend. It came out beautifully. We were mulling over to recover our 3 club chairs or by new. Hard to find people to recover, and they said they are shocked to find cheap plywood and particle board frames on brand names when they tear off old fabric. After looking at new, we opted to recover. Things are really getting nutty.
Who can’t help thinking of 1929………bartering booze is coming next……
Chipotle was out of lettuce on Saturday! We had to wait for the new brisket but it was worth it.
I’m lost here. What’s so terrible–other than aesthetics—with booze in plastic?
Even though at the first wine merchants would tell us that screw tops are actually better than corks, I still look first of all for cork.