WalMart Wine

[kevsand]

Just got this news in an email:

Wal-Mart Wine

Wal-Mart has announced that they will soon be offering customers a new discount item: Wal-Mart's own brand of wine. The world's largest retail chain is teaming up with Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery of California, to produce the spirits at an affordable price, in the $2-5 range. Wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a bottle of Wal-Mart brand into their shopping carts, but "there is a market for cheap wine," said Kathy Micken, director of marketing. She continued, "But the right name is important." Customer surveys were conducted to determine the most attractive name for the Wal-Mart brand. The top surveyed names in popularity are:

10. Chateau Parc de Traileur

9. White Trashfindel

8. Big Red Gulp

7. World Championship Riesling

6. NASCARbernet

5. Chef Boyardeaux

4. Peanut Noir

3. I Can't Believe It's Not Vinegar!

2. Grape Expectations

And the number 1 name for Wal-Mart Wine...

1. Nasti Spumante

The beauty of Wal-Mart wine is that it can be served with either white
meat (Possum), or red meat (Squirrel).

[Initech]

1. Wasnt this a David Letterman top 10 list?

[kevsand]

3. Maybe.

I hadn't seen it until now, but I haven't watched Letterman for close to a decade...

[SeattleGirl]

2. OMG!!!

Just the thing for my alter-ego, Wanda The White Trash Trailer Park Queen!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[RebelOne]

15. Excuse me, but I live in a trailer park.

I wish you would not associate those who live in mobile homes with white trash. I have a good job, a nice car and a pretty decent salary. I chose to live in a trailer because it is paid off and I only have a lot payment of $300 per month. So please choose your words more carefully.

[SeattleGirl]

16. Hey RebelOne, it was a joke on me, not a dis on you

or anyone who lives in a trailer park. Sorry if I offended you. :hug:

[cfield]

18. My husband and I live in a trailer

which is in a trailer park. We know that we aren't white trash but that doesn't stop us from referring to ourselves as such. I have a pretty great job, my husband works part time while going to school, we both own newer vehicles (2001) as well as having an old 72 Chevy that never gets driven except to keep it running for the day we sell it. We have no credit card debt and only a couple grand in student loans that should be no problem to pay off when he graduates. We don't live in the fanciest place, but we are far from 'white trash'.

That being said, anytime we refer to the house or ourselves, we refer to the "white-trash-trailer" we live in, and ourselves as being "white-trailer-trash". It's a joke. A stereotype maybe, but we don't see it as derogatory so much as true.
We can't afford to buy name brand everything. I get my jeans/work slacks/khakis at JC Penny or Kohls and most of my shirts anywhere I can find them for a decent price (read as anything under 10 bucks a shirt for a plain colored polo type). My husband's clothes come from K-mart/Walmart (don't start on me for shopping there, sometimes one has no other option) unless he gets 'fancy' stuff for Christmas/birthday. Need shoes? Run to Payless Shoes. Even if we did have more money, I doubt we'd change much except to get more of our clothes from places other than Wally World. If that makes me white trash, then so be it. At least I'm able to admit that.
Now, if someone called me white trash in a derogatory tone, I'd be offended, but if someone called me that to offend me, it wouldn't be anyone who knows me so they wouldn't know if I lived in a trailer or not.
I guess I just have a pretty thick skin on matters like this.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Hey cfield

Your POV on this is also where I'm coming from. I don't live in a trailer, but right now, I don't have a lot of money, so I buy what I can afford, where I can afford it. I did grow up pretty poor, spent part of it in the south (which is what part of my joke on myself is about), and lived on government surplus food for quite some time. I have been looked down upon many times in my life because I am not rich, so my alter-ego is my way of laughing at the whole thing, and just being okay with things. Shoot, I am a renter, and there are many homeowners who turn their noses up at renters, who sterotype us as being irresponsible, who trash their houses, etc., which couldn't be further from the truth for me. Rent or own, my house is my home, and I take care of it. My philosophy for folks who look down on people like me: Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

[cfield]

20. You got it SeattleGirl!

We use it as a joke because we would live better if we could, but at the same time, we aren't unhappy now. There are some things we do and laugh about because we know we only do them because of where we're at (like setting the trash on the porch, then realizing 2 days later that we've been walking past it not remembering to put it in the dumpster) that we'd never do in a 'nice' house. We've also got speakers strung up outside so we can listen to the radio while we're having our white-trash bbqs with our friends during the summers. Granted it's not trashy to have speakers outside (my husband's millionaire G-pa has a 500,000 dollar house with speakers built into the ceiling of every room, including the porch outside) but some of the wires have fallen and just drape from the boards. So it looks ghetto, but who cares. If someone thinks less of me for that, it's their problem. Sure it would only take a minute to reattach them so they don't hang, but it's a part of our ongoing joke about being trashy. Something we get to make fun of ourselves for every time we're outside and see them there.


We also live in Kansas, and can admit that Kansans are some of the dumbest people in the U.S. It doesn't offend me to hear the rest of America talk about the messed up values/religions in Kansas, because I know first hand how messed up this state is!

[SeattleGirl]

21. Damn, wish I were closer to Kansas!

I'd love to come to one of the white trash bbq's -- I'd even bring TWO bottles of WalMart wine!

:rofl:

[cfield]

23. You know we'd love to have you!

nt

[maveric]

4. You forgot "Peeunite"

[kevsand]

5. Peeunite on ice...

...nice.

[tuvor]

6. Ooh, a white trash joke. Funny stuff.

[kevsand]

7. Puns exist for their own sake.

Word play is not bound by class or political correctness.

[tuvor]

9. Ah, you appreciated the wordplay, and nothing more. I see.

If you say so.

[kevsand]

10. It's a zen thing...

[davsand]

8. Shabby Blanc?

I didn't see that one on the list...


Laura

[Canuckistanian]

11. LOL, that's hilarious

I think I had some of that Nasti Spumante at my prom, and I've never been the same since.
:freak:

[amerikat]

12. Sampaign/Sampain...or Sweat Shop White/Red

I'm no wine expert but I would buy a bottle of wine for $1.99....oh boy price cut $1.58..oh wow $1.47. Nah I'm not buying wine(or anything else) from Walmart

[MrScorpio]

13. That was some funny shit

Bravo!

[davsand]

14. A quick kick for the day crew.

It made me lmao last night when I saw it...


:kick:



Laura

[KamaAina]

17. It's really just plain water

they're such good little fundies, they expect you to change it into wine after you take it home! :evilgrin:

[DrDan]

22. cut-rate Gallo

cheap as I am, I don't believe that would be on my shopping list