White Trashy

I finally broke down, and followed C-Mac's link to the White Trash test. Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah--I beat you by two percentage points, Charlie!

But one question on there I didn't really know how to answer: "Have you ever drunk wine that came in a box?" What did they mean by "a box?" When I order a case from Millbrook, it gets shipped in a corrugated cardboard box, but I really didn't think that's what they meant. When I buy a bottle of Moet & Chandon or Veuve Cliquot for New Year's, the bottle comes in a cardboard box, but again, I didn't think that's what was meant in the question. I suspected this was even more lowbrow than a bottle of wine that doesn't have a cork, so I just answered "no." Turns out that was the correct answer.

I clicked enter, got my source code, and edited it a bit to make the width line up properly, which you now see at the top of my sidebar. I'm 17% White Trashy. I think what won me the title over C-Mac is that I'm a Libertarian and I smoke.

But I didn't hold my winning title over C-Mac for very long. I turned around and asked Steve what "wine in a box" is, and he knew exactly what it is. He told me about Franzia. In fact, he's actually consumed some. Intrigued, I had to google it, and found the snappy little picture of a 5 liter box of White Zinfandel on the Peapod website. It also comes in cabernet sauvignon, white chablis, and something nebulously labeled "blush," which could be anything, although it looks pink. My guess would be it's some sort of rot-gut rose, perhaps a notch or two above Mad Dog or Two Buck Chuck.

Well, that was quite an educational process. Wine in a box. Go figure.