/ck/ - Food & Cooking

You should ask your hand and dildo what they like.

6 bottles of 2 buck chuck

TJ's wine is all stuff nobody else wanted

Pinot grigio, sauvignon blanc, and chardonnay

>>4097049
It's very nice for the price. I'm no snob though.

The where do I go to get "good" wine?

>>4097062
buy cheap, taste them all, stick with your favs. cheap wine can taste good.

>>4097062
Don't listen to >>4097049

TJ's has some good wine. Whatever you like is good.

>>4097023
Please don't support trader joes. It is a shitty company that only appeals to yuppies who don't know any better.

>>4097119
What are you on about?

How young is your "girlfriend" OP?

>>4097023
2 buck chuck. 6 bottles is only 12 dollars.

She can try six different wines to find out which she likes best.

2 Buck Chuck is disgusting though.

I'm confused, why would you be buying your girlfriend wine when you aren't sure what she likes?

In any case, just get her white zin. Young women love it. I always worked when I was a grad student and brought naive freshmen girls back to my apartment to take advantage of. Girls always seem to like white zin.

>>4097241
This. I tend to forget 4chan is full of children sometimes.

OP is back from Trader Joes. She's 21 btw.

How'd I do?

>>4097285
Ask her how you did, not us! We can't taste for her.

>no white zin
>no Riesling

Those are the two that younger women are pretty much guaranteed to like. Everything else is a gamble, especially if you aren't sure of her tastes.

Best of luck, OP

>>4097285
she is going to leave you for
>>4097241

>>4097285
just looking at that picture made me grow a vagina

>>4097294
the blue bottle is a reisling. she likes the reds, but nothing too dry.

>>4097299
I'll take that as a good thing.

>>4097241
> I'm confused, why would you be buying your girlfriend wine when you aren't sure what she likes?

Agreed. Odd gift to buy 6 of if you are not familiar with it.

> White Zin

Agreed. Back in the day it was only thing I could get girls to drank. That and Boone's Farm or coolers and sangria.

I got the wife all the guys in my dept pic related (one on the right) this year. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouilly-Fuissé Usually sets me back about 150-160 per case (it 15/bottle where I live).

If you find yourself lost in the wine store and don't have any good recommendations, you can use these tips:

- most wine is ~$10 for 750ml. Shoot for the $15-20 range. Don't waste your $ on anything higher than that.

- check the alcohol content. Unless its the really good shit, most wines with high alcohol content (10% or better) will either be dry or bitter.

- if you can figure out if she prefers red/white, be sure to do that. A lot of people have strong opinions one way or the other because of flavor or one or the other gives them hangovers.

>>4097285
Thought you said she likes reds?

The Pouilly is a white btw. All my favs are reds and champagnes, but there's a few whites I like. Champagne is delicious with breakfast. I try to keep a Moet & Chandon Brut Imperial in the fridge when I can. Terrific palette cleanser especially for greasy breakfast foods and just downright refreshing after a heavy dish.

>>4097448
>with breakfast

>>4097241
Just went to a wedding 2 days ago with an open bar. It was full of college girls and gay guys. White zin was the first alcohol to run dry. It's a winner with young females.

>>4097466
>hasn't heard of champagne breakfast
>probably drinks alkaloid-rich coffee and doesn't realize it is a drug

>>4097285
>Anon all these drinks taste nasty. I wanted sweet wine
Should have went with the white zin nigga.

>>4097483
Please, I know caffeine is a drug. At least I can legally drive under the influence of caffeine. Also, I drink pop, not coffee. I don't want to spend the money it will take to make good coffee at home.

>>4097487
Now you make me want to slap anon's girl friend.

>>4097492
>Also, I drink pop,
lol child detected

>hurrr a glass of champagne before 9pm means your a drug addict! I only drink pop! Ma says pop is good for me!

>>4097023
>Keep in mind, she's young and definitely doesn't like anything dry.
buy her a big fucking tube of astroglide, get her wasted, and ream that tight ass bra

>>4097498
I need the caffeine bro. I'm addicted.

>hurrrrr, drinking with breakfast is totally fine, I don't have a problem

Denial detected.

>>4097495
Nah its faulty logic to assume that everyone has to care about everything you do to the same extent that you do. If a girl thinks white zin is the best shit ever it effects everyone around all of 0%. Now if she was to say white zin is the best alcohol ever than you may disagree but fighting with someone who gives about 2 shits about what you are talking about is about as futile as you can get.

>>4097505
>drinking a glass of wine before a culturally acceptable time is terrible and the same as getting drunk

Cool stuff bro.

>>4097505
But people can drink in the morning and not be addicts. There is a such things as drinks with less than 10% alcohol.

>>4097510
I'm just engaging him with the same level of argument he has given me.

>>4097510
And such a thing as being able to have one drink and leave it at that.

Some people drink for the taste, and having a single small alcoholic drink is simply for the taste and not for the insignificant effect it will have on you.

Kids don't understand this.

>>4097505

Dude have you seriously never heard of mimosas?

Champagne in the morning is not an uncommon thing at all.

>>4097515
You got all "OMG CHAMPAGNE AT BREAKFAST" and he called you out on it. Relax, you are a child and do not understand things.

Best dessert wine? Not OP but I am planning a new years eve dinner and need some help. Preferably under 200 dollars a bottle. Will be serving 4 and it will be baklava with chocolate.

>>4097495

Why slap the girlfriend?

Girls love white zin. It's common sense. A bottle of white zin is all it takes to get laid by a college freshman chick. It's easymode. You can't fault a girl for liking white zin.

>>4097521
No I didn't. All I said was > champagne with breakfast

He then felt the need to berate my personal morning drink of choice and I proceeded to respond with the same level of intelligence he displayed.

>>4097466

Don't get much do you?

> Hurr durr it's so hard to find a white wine that pairs with Fruit Loops

Stop eating all your meals at McD's when you/if you travel.

Most of the breakfast buffets I've been to in EU had champagne. They also had spiced/smoked lunchmeats, cheeses, and even some fish.. usually smoked salmon or the like. I always eat those, as I find the scrambled eggs to just taste weird there (bland).

Pic related: and what's this? Olives, cold cuts, spicey mustard, ravioli... Even a jar of unattended money back there. Don't see much of that in murrika.

For breakfast my buddies and I crack an egg into a mug of beer, have a shot of whiskey then go to work for 12 hours. No one gets buzzed from such a small amount of alcohol. It relaxes you, warms you up on cold mornings and gets your mind intune for the long day ahead. We're longshoremen.

>>4097538
>...don't see that in America...

We have a thing called black people. That's why.

>>4097537
Grow up.

>>4097545

/pol/ is that way....

Oh wait, you're right. Go into any pretentious coffee house where black people fear to tread and you'll see unattended tip jars filled with cash all the time.

>>4097538
You fuckers do have a much better breakfast selection.
>>4097546
I'm not the one who initiated the conflict.

>>4097562

Yah ya did sport, when you implied there was something strange about champagne with breakfast.

Moscato.

Bitches love moscato.

>>4097567
I mainly thought it was a strange selection of beverage, not because of it's alcohol content. This conflict has become absolutely ridiculous and I apologize for the initial misunderstanding that led to it old sport.

>>4097556
There's six bucks in that jar - hardly "filled with cash" you over emoting child.

>>4097577
Also, I did get a little butt mad about one reply in.

>>4097580

Well at least you learned something, broski.

Quite a few restaurants do champagne breakfasts or champagne brunch, you should try one sometime. it goes well with fruit, egg dishes, or light meats.

I brought up the champagne shit, sorry bout that.

There's a nice "travelpedia" site worth checking out that covers a lot of the weird hangups us murrikans have. Every country has them. On that site each country has a section called "Respect" that lists all the things that will get you a poke in nose or ass. In the USA one, it mentions drinking booze before 5pm is taboo. Never thought much about it, but everyone I know who does that would hide that fact. Not the same with beer/wine, especially for lunch. They mention some other interesting crap... Don't ever stand closer than an arm's length from strangers... And the only people it is acceptable to make fun of are fatties and whiteys. True dat honkey mofos. Ah and the weirdest one... Everybody asking you how you are doing, but if you actually respond to the question we say "ahhh fuck off with that, I got my own problems".

Some of the middle eastern ones are lengthy... I recommend taking a course or two before traveling there, you won't even make it out of the airport.

http://wikitravel.org/en/United_States_of_America#Respect

Pic related to the money jar. Where I grew up we had these things. All the fast food places locked their doors at dusk. Only way to get food was to pull up to this contraption. Way it works, if they lift the plexiglass window on their side, it closed the one on your side. That way the homeys don't pop a cap in yo ass. You put your money in the box, then closes, opening up a minute late with your food. I guess that would similar to the german tip jar :p

>>4097572
Moscato and riesling is the only wine I can enjoy, everything else is far too bitter/dry.

And yes, guy here.

>>4097599
I will.

I'll probably have to make that brunch myself though....can't think of a single breakfast place near me that offers anything that isn't heavy.

>>4097538

>sign written in foreign heathen babblespeak
>jar contains glorious American dollars

Something doesn't add up...

....also I'm being facetious, before any eurobros get angry. I'm still confused why there's US currency there though.

>>4097606
We like our personal space and don't want to hear your problems. That's basically it.

When a friend asks how I'm doing though, I like to respond, "default answer." Anything other than "good" as a response is weird, so that's the default.

>>4097606
>In the USA one, it mentions drinking booze before 5pm is taboo.

Oddly enough I've only noticed that to be true among working and middle classes for the most part.

Hang out with rich folks and you could drink martinis at sunrise and nobody would bat an eye. I used to do exactly that when I dated a girl with loaded parents and it usually resulted in her parents chuckling and making drinks for themselves as well

>>4097629
Also explains the stereotype of the CEO or high ranking management of a company having some fancy scotch or whatever in their office.

>>4097609

> ....also I'm being facetious, before any eurobros get angry. I'm still confused why there's US currency there though.

Guaging by what is offered on that table that looks to be a pretty decent 150+ euro a night hotel. When I've traveled I rarely saw europoor plopping down that kind of money to rent a bed for the night. Seems like its mostly murrican there.

And haha I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually supposed to be a beer jar, but a few of my silly murrikan commrades instantly saw "tip jar" and could not resist throwing their money in there.

>>4097541
haha what the fuck

>>4097629
> Oddly enough I've only noticed that to be true among working and middle classes for the most part.

Ah good point. A lot of the poorer folk don't "enjoy a beer", they get tore up from the floor up while cheering on Nascar.

At my office we have champagne breakfast everytime some good news surfaces. Everybody has a couple glasses. Our employee handbook just sayd you can't be "intoxicated" on the premises or at a companby function. Since that's a legal doc, I would assume intoxicated would be defined as the .08 or .1 BAC like the state does.

Check this shit out. We have a branch office in Denmark and they do it different. They close the office early every Friday and have an open wine/schnapps bar (companied paid, both time and booze). If you want liquor have to bring your own. They could agree one a few liquors to stock, so they just quit buying it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264520/Carlsberg-staff-strike-beer-ban-Denmark.html

> Carlsberg brewery workers strike in Denmark after bosses tell staff they can only drink at lunchtime

>>4097541
>no one gets buzzed from such a small amount of alcohol

Small people do. My mom would need a nap after that breakfast.

>>4097699
Speaking as an American, I wish that was the case here. Most work places here would flip their shit if you drank AT ALL during the work day.

>>4097647
I'd definitely wager that you were correct.

>>4097703
Longshoremen don't.

>>4097712
Assuming you're that longshoreman with this post.

It only feels like you are warming up, but you actually lose some body heat because you are ingesting a cold liquid.

Not that it matters, but I like being factual.

>>4097729
Yes, I am well aware of the effects of alcohol and tobacco on your distal vasculature. Adn yes, you are correct, it doesn't matter.

>>4097707

It really just depends on your job. I drink at work and nobody cares

>>4097023
How about instead of 6 fucking bottles fo wine you get her some expensive champagne or something? Idiot.

test

>>4099718
mornin' oval