Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Actually, keg beer is fresher than bottled beer b/c it hasn't been pasteurized to kill the yeast. ... No one ever agrees with me on this point, though.

Whether one agrees with the specifics or not, I must applaud your true dedication to the cause of good beer.

Originally posted by Replaced_TexanOf course, some of the best weddings I've been to have been barbeque or Mexican buffets, served on paper plates, in parish halls or gyms or someone's back yard or the fireman's hall, with enough beer to last all night long, so I might not be snobby enough.

You sound snobby enough to me: you have just rejected the practices of 50%+ of weddings in America, at a conservative estimate. You openly prefer receptions where there is sufficent food and drink provided to guests, and where they have a good time. Shocking! Those are rare and precious things in this world where trashy (white, trailer or otherwise) brides &/or grooms decide to skimp on their guests to satisfy their own mistakenly inflated egos, and so provide 3 plates of celery to the 300 guests they've crammed into a fancy hotel to suffer together, and then engage in overt extortion to try to extract the cover-price out of said guests in the form of gifts/pay-offs, all for the sake of making "their day" sufficently grand in lieu of providing actual hospitality to their supposed loved ones.

BR(my kinda snob)C

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Draft beer gives me a headache (I think from the gas) and I agree with Former Gov't that kegs need to be given up once your school loans are no longer in forebearance. My hubby, who comes from a family that would have qualified as "trailer trash" had they been able to afford a trailer rather than building their own plumbing-free home, insists each time we have a party that we should just "get a keg." I, of course, explain each time that it just won't happen and then head down to the package store myself to ensure (a) that no keg is purchased and (b) that beer in adequate amounts and varieties is purchased. My husband also does not understand why it shouldn't be BYOB -- I am being tested, aren't I? I buy bottles unless it is a pool party in which case his buddies are trusted only with cans. His friends continue to throw BYOB parties or ones which require a sign-up sheet at work along with a fee so that the host can save you the trouble of toting in your own -- I refuse to attend these parties until the hosts grow the fuck up.

I only drink beer from bottles and believe that it is a waste of time to pour it into a mug (why pour from one piece of glass to another?).


Edited to add that under-the-bar keg beer at a bar or reception is not a problem (thought I won't drink it because of the headache thing). It is the kegs with hand pumps that I find disturbing post-college.

This is exactly why it's up to me to change society's perception of kegs. People need to know that the bottled stuff is cheap, pasteurized swill, whereas the keg is the fancy, good-tasting shit.

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
The restaurant would be sorely mistaken at my family weddings, where everyone must drink in order to get through the night in close proximity to one another. And it is NOT hard to drink through $30 so that is a preposturous upper figure in my view.

OK, up it to $45.00 a head.

But again, consider the costs involved. A full bottle of Absolut can be had by a mass purchaser at about $15-$17 a bottle (750 ml). A bottle of rail vodka is about $10.00 (750 ml).

Even if you were a champ, you're going to drink 1/2 a bottle of vodka. So, at $45.00 a head, you've expensed out $7.50 in vodka. You're left with $37.50 to be spread over mixers (cheap), limes/lemons (cheapish), glasses (virtually zero), and the salary of the bartender.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Good points. I'm not sure, but it may be cheaper to buy an entire keg and waste half of it than buy by the bottle. As long as you pay for it, the caterer should care less if it's wasted. And of course the kegs wouldn't be tapped with pump taps, but with the pressurized taps found in bars/kegerators (although I think you're kidding about the pumping)...

Although I imagine they'd mark up the $50 keg as much as they mark up the $1 bottles of heinie.

I was sort of kidding with the pumping. I'm not certain all caterers would have a CO2 tap or kegerator they could bring to the party.

That said, I'm still with you on the general sentiment.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
And as I've said before, I'd rather drink my own urine than Heinekin.

No one ever agrees with me on this point, though.

I agree. You would rather drink your own urine.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I agree. You would rather drink your own urine.

Thanks for the support!

(Yummy!)

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
Even if you were a champ, you're going to drink 1/2 a bottle of vodka.

We very obviously haven't met. Unless the reception is starting at 9:00 p.m., it would not be difficult for me to consume well over 1/2 bottle of vodka.

ABBA(superthirstychamp)Kiss

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
all for the sake of making "their day" sufficently grand in lieu of providing actual hospitality to their supposed loved ones

Both "white trash" and "it's my day" are on my list of odious and vulgar phrases.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
OK, up it to $45.00 a head.

But again, consider the costs involved. A full bottle of Absolut can be had by a mass purchaser at about $15-$17 a bottle (750 ml). A bottle of rail vodka is about $10.00 (750 ml).

You pay too much for alcohol. Those are mediocre [i[retail[/i] prices. Rail vodka should wholesale for less than half that. I would imagine Absolut does as well.

But I realize that just makes your point stronger.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
Exorcist would have been much more frightening (especially the green puke) if you were living in the early 1970s and special effects was limited to whatever you could do on paper with coloring pencils and crayons. Much more psychological.

The Exorcist is just terrifying. Has nothing to do with whether you are an atheist/agnostic/jain/buddhist/baptist/jew. It's just scary - if you don't get scared of those things, it just means that you don't get scared by those things, nothing to do with your spirituality. But maybe I am just a scaredy-cat. I also get very very scared at Rosemary's Baby, even though that has no gore whatsoever (I don't know which is scarier, her husband's flabby chest or that black cradle at the end).

gwn(five foot two and six feet four)c

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
This is exactly why it's up to me to change society's perception of kegs. People need to know that the bottled stuff is cheap, pasteurized swill, whereas the keg is the fancy, good-tasting shit.

I find nothing fancy about standing over a keg and pumping and that is what most people think of when they think of "keg" -- I have never been to a private party held at a home or out of doors where they had a keg and thought to use gas instead of a fucking hand pump. If I had a beermeister (do they still make those?) with gas and all the bells and whistles I would use kegged beer -- my father converted an old refrigerator to hold a keg with gas lines going to it and a tap mounted to the front and I would not be opposed to that either so long as it is done tastefully. I will continue to drink from the bottle though because draft beer gives me headaches no matter what.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Please discuss the Amazon link. If I click on it for access to the site and buy something on that trip, do you get credit? Do you get the credit if I just click on it?

.

If you buy something after you click on it, we get credit, if you just click on it but don't buy anything, we don't. If you put something in your shopping cart after you clicked on it, but don't buy it until a later visit (after not having clicked on it) we don't get credit.

The links under Please click to support the cite, we get a few cents every time someone clicks on the link, they don't have to buy anything.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
OK, up it to $45.00 a head.

The grandmas are few and far between that drink even close to $30 of liquor. You would think caterers would price by the age group of guests.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Hmm, where might one find such people?

Where can I send you an invite?

[SlaveNoMore]

y NotFromHere
Which reminds me of the last time I partied with a few of my out-of-town buddies. We went to a place that served no less than 16 excellent microbrews in addition to bottled beer... Poor stupid sap.

Microbeers are the cosmo/chocotini/appletini of the beer swilling set.

If you cannot order a Guinness or a real German Lager, drink real liquor and stop being a pussy.

not7y("I'll have a Fat Bastard Cherry Amber September Ale please" - F you)S

PS - So much for retiring at 500 posts