Maybe it's truly just a Wisconsin thing, like the brandy old fashioned?

It's regional! Upper Midwestern I think— although weirdly I don't remember it being a thing in my corner of western Michigan (or in my family). It's very Wisconsin coded + Minnesota and bits of Illinois (like supper clubs, which I'd never heard of but my mom had growing up in the Upper Peninsula)

sorry to be clear they're saying, "please stop [calling wines that aren't bone dry 'hydrated fascia']"

Everybody at the wine bar is saying this

Also he screenshots the Odyssey

Also my princess is Patroclus

Not a real bartender but: El Dorado 3 Year? JM Rhum white?

Actually that does make you wonder if the writer is the one with the G&T call and the jeans

I say this as an almost 40 year-old wearing Muji pants with bar mat stains on the knee from trying to fix a dishwasher who is also ranking Mamdani first

As someone who works in alcohol for a living, can confirm 1) they're totally fine (not at the very top of my N/A best-of, but far from the bottom) 2) very distant to the reasons why the world is broken

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