Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 02, 2023

Reminded me of the Dick Vandyke movie Fitzwilly something where he schools a waiter on the hows and why’s he should serve wine.

Does that include Night Train?

I have, on rare occasions, refused a bottle of wine. Not because it was a bad wine, but because it wasn’t to my taste. But in those cases, it was usually the waiter who had recommended a certain wine and gave me a bit to taste.

Meh. There’s a whole mystique built up around wine, but it’s all bull. Drink what you like.

Arlon looks like a wine-bottle genie in panel 3….

Your compliance is greatly appreciated. Beep beep

“If I told you that you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?”

The “taste” is only to confirm the temperature. You do not get to open a whole bottle and say “that’s not what I meant” without paying for the entire bottle. However, I once returned a bottle of wine because it was no longer wine but was some type of cleaning fluid. The sommelier agreed and replaced it.

I always refuse the wine. That stuff is just too nasty to drink.

And how long have they been married?

is Janis levitating?

Heh, when in France in the early Sixties, my old man gave a thumbs down just to see what would happen. Waiter walked to the curb and poured the whole bottle into the gutter! My dad was SO embarrassed!

Wouldn’t surprise me….

On the second night of our honeymoon, my wife and I ordered a bottle of wine from the expensive Miami hotel we were staying at…and it was terrible. But both of us were too afraid at the time to send it back for something else. Two decades later, we would not make the same mistake again.

Some reds are way too sour tasting for me. I would venture a guess that those were not good years.

Wouldn’t she already know that about her husband? They’ve been together since college.

A lover of fine wine……….

I have actually sent back a bottle and it was bad…waiter did not know, got the manager, showed the manager, had him taste it got a free bottle as well as the one I’d ordered removed from the table no charge that night….

….whereas I always have.

(Not that many offer anymore.)

No Groundhog Day gag this year? I’m disappointed.

Will congress go through?

What happened to Arlo’s body in panel 3? ;^)

Like others here, I’ve refused one because it was corked.

The real trick is to roll the cork between thumb and forefinger — mealy/crumbly cork = bad bottle/wine. The server should present the cork for approval (if he/she knows their stuff..

Not to pick but this is about the 4th waiter with hat hair do. Is there such a waiter in JJ’s life.

Wine can go bad in the bottle. It’s not actually the wine going off — sometimes the cork goes bad.

https://www.thelushlife.xyz/blog/how-to-tell-if-your-wine-is-bad

My dad told me you never refuse a wine unless something’s actually wrong with it.