http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56640 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:06:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56640#post-163936 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:04:44 +0000 Squudge 163936@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jamesie - go with your first instinct.</p> <p>Those of us of a certain age all thought Blue Nun and Leibfraumilch was dead sophisticay when we were kids, and went to some very shit parties where someone threw up one or the other (or both mixed, chased down by Teachers 'scotch') in the azaleas.</p> <p>If you want to make it trampier, go with Veeps and White Lightning. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56640#post-163933 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:57:59 +0000 jamsieoconnor 163933@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I know absolutely nothing about wines so it was the only drink I could think of that I thought would be generally recognised by people as being awful. </p> <p>The idea is also about two weeks too late, but I thought I'd stick it up anyway for the craic. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56640#post-163913 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:48:17 +0000 Tripod 163913@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote> It has been described as "a subtle and delicate interplay of woody aromas, full-bodied colour and rich taste." However, the only person who has ever described it in such terms is the Public Relations Officer for Blue Nun</blockquote></p> <p>Cheers! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56640#post-163911 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:31:15 +0000 beau-jolly 163911@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sorry, I can't resist: Where to start?<br /> Would work better if you used Jacob's Creek or Hardy's Stamp, any SA wine at around a fiver, any supermarket own brand or indeed almost any wine with a picture of an animal on the front. The horse meat scandal is nothing compared to what these guys get up to. However its just wine not nice horsy-worsies so no-one gives a toss!<br /> The anti-freeze scandal was <em>Austrian</em> wine in the 70s. Austria has still not recovered. It was in 1986 when Methanol was added to <em>Italian</em> wine and killed 20 people. You expect this from Italy so no one gave a toss.<br /> Germany is probably the only country where food, beer and wine is unadulterated.<br /> As a brand Blue Nun lives on with a few variances including a dry French version. Like all branded wine it is shite but not anything like as shite as branded wine shipped from the other side of the world. Why would you ship it from the southern hemisphere when 70% is grown in Europe? Answer: because despite that its cheeper. Why is it cheaper? Because it is industrial alcohol. Sadly there is a whole generation who have never drunk real wine.</p> <p>Still quite funny Jamsie.</p> <p>BTW. Who was it, in June 2010, sold cheap Leibfraumich with a photocopied label of £15 Louis Jadot Pouilly Fuisse on it? Oh yeh, it was Tesco. Just slipped through their rigorous checks. FFS! Did anyone give a toss? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56640#post-163839 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:44:18 +0000 Squudge 163839@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>reminds me of the first time I threw up as a teenager</p> <p>diced stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56640#post-163838 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:36:01 +0000 jamsieoconnor 163838@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Another major brand has found itself embroiled in controversy as the investigation into horse-products in the food chain continues to deepen. </p> <p>The latest product to be associated with the scandal is Blue Nun wine, with tests carried out by Government health inspectors showing that as much as 92% of what consumers believe to be wine is, in fact, horse urine. The remaining 8% was found to be a mixture of brake fluid, meths and anti-freeze, with only trace amount of grapes and other organic and non-lethal material.</p> <p>The wine has divided opinion since first coming to popularity in the 1970s. It has been described as "a subtle and delicate interplay of woody aromas, full-bodied colour and rich taste." However, the only person who has ever described it in such terms is the Public Relations Officer for Blue Nun and everyone else who has ever tasted the product has, as a rule, described it in considerably less glowing terms, with critics reviewing it variously as "revolting", "only marginally more palatable than the water that collects in the bottom of your bin" and "as dangerous to your health as breaking into Oscar Pistorius' house." </p> <p>Despite this, the wine has proved to be one of Germany's more popular exports, following on from their less popular exports of National Socialism and attempted world domination, and has attempted to reinvent itself in recent years to improve its image, which has been flagging since the 1980s. Speaking to assembled media yesterday, Michael Schwarz, head of Blue Nun Wines, voiced his concerns about the impact this scandal will have on sales. "These are very serious allegations and we need time to investigate and consider the full implications," he said. However, despite his assurances of a fully open and transparent investigation, he refused to answer local media questions about the company's recent purchase of a prominent German racecourse, five thousand gas ovens and an industrial incinerator.</p> <p>The scandal even appears to have damaged consumer confidence in the wine in Britain, where it has remained inexplicably popular over the years. Speaking outside a Sainsbury's off-licence in Kent last night, one Blue Nun enthusiast expressed his concern about the controversy. "I think it's outrageous that you don't know what's in these things when you buy them now," he said. "Quite frankly, if you can't trust that a cheap, German supermarket wine at £3.99 is going to be 100% cat piss then what can you trust?" </p>