On 26 Mar 2008 05:56:53 GMT, Sean Houtman <grommit383@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Mike <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:M31Gj.12131$6J3.7339@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> Walter Traprock wrote:
>>
>>> Glad they are loooking after our health! Liquor bottles were
>>> long ago 'health-sized' in the USA. Just think, a pint used to
>>> be a pint! and a half pint then was so much more than a
>>> half pint now.
>>
>> Damn straight. I only buy liquor by the quart, dammit, a perfect
measure
>> if ever there was one. In 1980, I could name at least five wines that
>> cost less than $2.00 per quart. Yes, quart, as in four cups, the only
>> measure God intended us to use, or he would have made a liter weigh two
>> pounds, but he didn't.
>>
>> Go ahead, give it a try. Name five wines that sold for less than $2.00
>> per quart in 1980.
>>
>> -- Mike --
>
>I think it was about 1980 that my parents bought their first bottle of
>"Vinho Branco de Mesa" an im****t from Brazil that came in a gallon glass
>bottle enclosed by wicker. I think it was about 3 dollars. It was rather
>vile, and by the time they bought out the store, it was down to a dollar
a
>gallon. If I recall correctly, the last purchase was about 30 dollars.
>
>Sean
In 1972 and 1973, Boones Farm Apple Hill. BF Strawberry Hill. Some
Other Company's Spanada. God they were vile. But none of us were
drinking age, so our choices were limited by our minimum wage jobs and
whomever we could find to sell us wine. Now that I look back on it,
we started our drinking career at the wino end. It's surprising that
only a third of us ended up with drinking problems.
Recently I found a bottle of Apple Hill in the grocery, still for
under $2.00. Even nostalgia wouldn't get me to try that catpiss
again.
Jon M
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