Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 23, 2021

While it is never good to waste good wine – have I missed an IRL story that this comic relates to?

Um. Not in my experience.

Wine with a human touch.

Was he to short to stomp the grapes?

Pairs well with Fava beans.

Sorta like last week’s Foxtrot, where Roger tried making homemade wind, but stomping on the grapes dissolved his Desenex. He wound up pouring it down the sink, which unclogged the garbage disposal.

When they mention a wine having “body,” I do hope this is not what they are referring to.

I guess you could label this batch “Grim Reaper Wine”. ;D

There’s an old story that seems to apply here. Goes something like this:

“Mrs O’Shaughnessy, I’m afraid I have bad news. Your husband fell into a vat of beer down at the brewery and drowned.”

“Oh, my. But I guess I can take some comfort in the fact that he went quickly without any suffering.”

“I wouldn’t say that. He got out three times to go to the bathroom.”

That’s funny, Europeans say something similar about Californian wine

As long as it is under the acceptable amount of foreign matter in the vat, it should pass inspection.

Is this what they mean when they say the a wine has a “great body”??

how is this a funny comic ?

Shouldn’t the door read “Sortie” and the workers be wearing berets?

I wouldn’t doubt this!

I bought a copy of “Rhineland Wineland” when I moved to Germany in 1960. It was regarded as THE authoritative exposition on German wines. Yet it never explained what “export only” meant. That seemed a little disturbing.

Reminds me of a part in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” which discussed the working conditions of Chicago meat processing plants back in the early 1900s, Sinclair basically allude to how some workers seemed to have disappeared at the factories. The intent of Sinclair’s novel was to expose the worker right’s abuses and how this led to a socialist worker’s movement but the public (including Teddy Roosevelt) were mainly concerned with he poor quality of canned foods produced by these factories which was sold and fed to the public as well as the US Army which got “Carry a Big Stick” Teddy involved with trying to reform a corrupt system. Newsflash: workers in meat packing plants are still mistreated:

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/08/chicken-processor-tyson-foods-guardian-investigation-workers-environment-working-conditions-arkansas-monopoly/

Shame on you Miller, there are more superb winemakers in the US than there are bad ones in France.

I have sampled (OK more than sampled) the wines of North Carolina and Washington State. We make some very fine wines here.

The California stuff is OK too :)

Europe does the same with their horses. Generally speaking, Americans are impressed by the bigger price tag assuming the the bigger the price the better the product. Not always true. One needs to know their product and exactly what it looks like aside from the price. I know professional trainers that can’t tell the difference between the $80 horse and the $800K one until the price is disclosed. "Buyer beware "will never get old.

This illustrates the inherent danger, in having a gangplank run out over a wine tank. It should be avoided.

It’s simply food quality standards in the EU are higher than in the U.S. This wouldn’t pass in the EU, but would be okay in the States. Don’t believe me? Check out how much rat droppings are allowed in pasta.

Wonder if Wiley might have turned up foreign matter in his aperitif. This one is a little left-field-ish.

Th best wines in the world come from the west coast of the US, New Zealand, and Australia.

I used to belong to a Sake club and one time a group of sake lovers from Japan visited (I was living in Las Vegas). They brought fresh sake along and every bottle was better than anything I’d even had in the USA.

Guess I’ll stick to my Carlo Rossi Paisano.

Somebody yell “Fire!” -(Smothers Brothers)

The difference between European and American beer: you may kill yourself by drinking too much of the first. To achieve that with the latter you need to drown yourself.

Am I the only one to feel that this was not only a not-funny comic, but smacks of racism? I was taken aback and if this strip continues such jokes, I shall mark it as not to be sent to me further.

Eh. We Americans wouldn’t notice.

Must be French

start drinking whiskey.

I don’t know if that’s true for wine, but it is true for Olive Oil.

Americans will consume anything if it costs enough or has an “exotic” name

I was on the ferry crossing from France to England, and a bunch of Brits were returning from France, each with his own hand truck loaded with cases of French beer. I had not expected to see that.

It seems ironic that in our personal lives we tend treat guests better than our home families — we tidy and clean the house, make special foods, wear nicer clothes, stash clutter in boxes in the closet (that our guests won’t be opening), lecture our kids on behavior, etc. when people (including distant family) come to visit. But in business, it’s ‘buyer beware.’

…and make sure to put it in boxes.

There is a sculpture of a person being crushed in a wine press on one of the approaches to Napa – or at least there was many, many years ago before I realized that Old World wines were better tasting and better value than New World offerings (In fact I still have the t-shirt with the image with the caption ‘Killer Wines’). Maybe this is where Wiley got the idea.

Now successfully retired after forty years of professional winemaking, I can confidently tell you that such things DO happen, and the results are often fatal. A person cannot swim in wine; wine’s lighter than water because of the alcohol and thus doesn’t provide the needed buoyancy. Consequently, one would sink like a stone in a vat like that of wine.

Another reason to stick to white wine.

The only way that wine could be more French is if the guy had a cigarette in his mouth and a beret on his head when he fell in.

I’ll take a European wine over an American wine any day.

That was Thomas the vintner, a crucial ingredient.

They will sell no wine before its Tom.

This is also AT&T’s standard for their products and customer service.

As a rule health and safety standards are much higher in manufacturing in Europe.

He’s not dead. He just doesn’t want to come out yet!

Emere, Bibendum Mori (to Buy, to Drink, to Die)

How serendipitous is this? Just watched an episode of Brokenwood where throwing murder victims into wine vats was a plot devise.

Once I discovered the wineries of Marlborough, New Zealand, I gave up on everything else.

Take on old Smother Brothers joke.I yelled “Fire” when I fell in to the vat of wine.Why did you yell “Fire” when you fell into the wine?No one would come if I yelled “WINE”

We still have an FDA.

The Yanks like their wine with a bit of body …

Not at all surprised … ;)

Oh … and grab his hat for the next guy.