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Post by cernunnos on Jan 21, 2023 19:35:13 GMT 1
My goodness a glass snob!  |
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Post by suein56 on Jan 21, 2023 20:47:24 GMT 1
I drink my 1 or 2 glasses of an evening from an old Suze tumbler .. bought for 1€ at a vide grenier years ago It is small and slender and tho the etching of Suze is no longer visible I love it. I can hold it easily with no fear of dropping it 
Apparently mine was from a Bistrot aeons ago - looking at the pics online |
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Post by Nifty on Jan 21, 2023 20:58:55 GMT 1
Apparently so .. Quote : "In its measurements, the CCSA considers a standard drink to be a 12oz (355ml) serving of 5%-alcohol beer, a 5oz (148ml) glass of 12%-alcohol wine or a shot glass of 40% spirits." So those are more the UK size wine glasses than the French 125ml. In Spain 250ml seems more the norm in some places. |
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Post by houpla on Jan 21, 2023 22:20:57 GMT 1
My goodness a glass snob! Oh absolutely |
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Post by houpla on Jan 21, 2023 22:22:02 GMT 1
Apparently so .. Quote : "In its measurements, the CCSA considers a standard drink to be a 12oz (355ml) serving of 5%-alcohol beer, a 5oz (148ml) glass of 12%-alcohol wine or a shot glass of 40% spirits." So those are more the UK size wine glasses than the French 125ml. In Spain 250ml seems more the norm in some places. Would those be the places with a high proportion of Brits, by any chance?  |
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Post by glazedallover on Jan 21, 2023 22:23:58 GMT 1
If the week begins on Saturday I'm already halfway through the week's quota! I'm probably through to the end of February by now...... |
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Post by Nifty on Jan 22, 2023 6:14:03 GMT 1
My goodness a glass snob! Nothing but Lalique. @ Houpla I notice that expensive restaurants tend to promote the use of very large glasses; in places frequented my the hoi polloi, spirit measures tend to be at least double what I think is normal. I am gobsmacked by what some people can be persuaded to part with for a fancy ice cream served in a glass. It’s only money. |
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Post by houpla on Jan 22, 2023 7:53:20 GMT 1
The glasses might be large, but you're not allowed to pour your own wine, and a pretentious waiter is hardly going to fill the glass is he? At least, I vaguely remember that being the case. Haven't eaten in a posh resto for years! If we're going to drift onto ice creams, well, nothing will ever beat the coupes served up by the glacerie in Agay in the 80s. For someone brought up on a Wicksteed's cone or a strawberry Mivvi, it was a whole new world |
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Post by Nifty on Jan 22, 2023 8:14:47 GMT 1
I don’t think that he any pics of some of the obscene things that I have seen on the tables lately. Here a method of transforming sand into cash via the dealers with UNIQUE AND EXCEPTIONAL KNOW-HOW. www.lalique.com/en/world-of-lalique/know-how’women, flora and fauna.’ Could be my alter ego. There are lots of posh dogs to be seen at the tables here. |
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Post by gigi on Jan 22, 2023 10:30:16 GMT 1
Around here - admittedly a small rural community, the French don't seem to be very fussy about glasses. I have been invited for many aperos where the wine is just poured into any available tumbler. It's much the same round here. The municipal 'do's' use plastic or paper tumblers  There's something soooo special about drinking from a really fine glass. Even the vin de pays tastes better Well, apart from Côtes de Marmandais. Best used as drain cleaner I agree that lovely wineglasses, it always makes the wine taste even better. Here at home I have 2 delicate wineglasses with barley sugar twist stems bought from a charity shop many years ago, likely for pennies. A few weeks ago I bought 8 lovely wineglasses at a recently opened antique arcade at Wallingford for £8. All are delicate shapes and a pleasure to hold and drink from. All our wineglasses in France were bought from our favourite local café-restaurant, so they were very cheap but nice to hold. |
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Post by pcpa on Jan 22, 2023 13:13:35 GMT 1
How many glasses would be needed in your household if you did not drink alcohol and space was at a premium?
Not for looking at and admiring, not for serving a choice of drinks from the bar with company, how many glasses would you have to have?
Abstinence and a change of living circumstances made me one day realise the answer to a question I had never asked was in front of me and it was very surprising.
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Post by houpla on Jan 22, 2023 13:34:06 GMT 1
1 tumbler for fruit juice. Probably an ex-mustard container |
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Post by pcpa on Jan 22, 2023 14:58:37 GMT 1
I don't drink fruit juice.
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Post by curtis on Jan 22, 2023 15:23:00 GMT 1
A glass, for me is most important. I know it may sound strange but I feel a good wine deserves the respect of a good glass.
Even a daily drinker like Gato Negro Cabernet Sauvignon is better in the right glass.
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Post by lapourtaider on Jan 25, 2023 9:29:03 GMT 1
When we bought our camping car, we bought a set of plastic wine glasses as logic would dictate. These were swiftly replaced with proper but solid wineglasses with a foam glass holder to keep them safe. Much better.
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There's something soooo special about drinking from a really fine glass. Even the vin de pays tastes better 