If there was a bug floating in your wine glass... archived

It depends on the size of the bug mem. If it were just a little gnat, definitely would just pluck it out and keep drinking. If it were a cicada, the glass and all would go in the garbage.

Totally what she said...

Mary,

It looked like a little family of gnats on one side of the glass, and then, the other side had two moths going at it. Directly diagonally, a queen bee was starting a colony.

Oh wait, this is last week's unfinished glass left sitting here. Oops, better refill.

Ugh!

Plus that's hardly 'a' bug...

Could said bug swim in a straight line?

If it's a good wine, this is what I'd do -

First, pick up the bug and smack it on it's back, to make it spit out whatever it had. Can't let a good wine go to waste.

Then, enjoy the rest, since the alcohol should kill anything harmful.

At least, that's what I've always assumed ...

At first, I wasn't sure exactly what was in the wine glass because I didn't have my beer googles on. So, maybe I'll go finish that beer in the garage that I started last week. See what's happening there.

Bugs are essential to wine. A friend helped name an Italian wine "vespa" due to the number of times he was stung during the harvest.

If that's the case, I had a delicious sauvignon blanc the other night called "Mosquito".

I had a Sauvignon Ant

I said beer googles. Need a vacation.

Anyway, I decided as long as I don't actually chew them...

Gotcha mary!

OMG mem...you crack me up!!!

(I fish bugs out as long as I do not find them to be too offensive...wine is wine baby!!!)

mamafriend,

Well then, OK! I'm coming to your house for breakfast. Better put your nose googles on because this won't be pretty. Can I check for half empties in your recycling?

My grandfather was frequently faced with this dilemma because he lived in Florida,Land of Winged Flying Things. He taught me that bugs don't drink much, and sometimes add some valuable protein to the diet.
If you fish the bug out, you risk losing a precious drop or two unneccessarily.
Sip genteely through a straw.

(and with the beer goggles and a straw, you are sure to look to the bugs like an enormous Praying Mantis, and they will avoid your beverage like the plague)


Calli

I've heard of water bugs, but never wine bugs.

Posted By: essCould said bug swim in a straight line?

or what? FUI?

It ain't a party unless you've swallowed a bug in your liquor or wine!

The eleventh commandment states;
Thou shall not dispense drinkable alcohol due to any foreign object that may in it.

So drink up!

Also my mother always told me "don't worry what doesn't kill you will fatten you up! In spanish it sounds better.

It was long, about 20 years go. Scully and I were with a friend at the Riviera Cafe on 7th. Ave. Friend orders drink. Drink comes out with a cockroach doing the backstroke in it.

"Waiter, there is a roach in my drink."

Waiter picks up the drink and proceeds to walk back to the bar.

Scully: " You better order something else or the same drink will make a U-turn, minus the roach."

Friend orders different drink.

Waiter returns to table singing, "La Cucarocha."

Posted By: memmamafriend,

Well then, OK! I'm coming to your house for breakfast. Better put your nose googles on because this won't be pretty. Can I check for half empties in your recycling?

Half empties in the recycling?? It would NEVER happen over here my dear. Waste not, want not

Mem, have you gotten over the weird affect you were getting regarding how wine smells and tastes? Sounds like you are back to enjoying a good snort or two... :wink:

Peg- I was out and about and forced myself to have a few. Yes, it still smells and tastes like poison, even with selzter, lemons, etc that my friends tried to put in. Sigh. So I am sitting in my wagon again.
May have some snagria at Calli's Sunday.

Snagria. Rum, oops, I mean yum.

Happy 4th!

That's very sad.... :sad:

Happy 4th to you, too.

Oh, and if there was a bug in my drink, I'd fish it out and drink. :wink:

It would depend on how much I liked the wine! If I really liked it, I'd flick the bug out and keep drinking! After all, how much could the bug have drunk?:bigsmile:

Anyone ever stop to think how many bugs you drank by accident during an evening back yard party? And that you don't know where those bugs have been, or what kind they were?
Ugh. I had a bug fly up my nose once, and I kept thinking it was roaming around my sinus cavities for days.

They always seem to make straight for my EYES, which skeeves me out no end.

Makes me feel better about never sitting outside in the evening because the mosquitoes all think I'm some kind of great mood-altering drug.