Word: chardonnays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cultural class warfare. Whether accurately or otherwise, the Republicans have portrayed the Democrats as the party of a cultural elite-ivory-tower intellectuals and inside-the-Beltway bureaucrats totally alienated from the concerns of ordinary Americans. The redirection of populist resentment from top-hatted Wall Street businessmen to Chardonnay-sipping Washington pointy-heads has been nothing short of brilliant...
...What the hell," says Jack Cakebread of Napa's prizewinning Cakebread Cellars. "Agriculture has always been that way. But it's a bummer. I just planted 350 prune trees that host the wasps that prey on the sharpshooter." He pauses to sip from a glass of his 1991 reserve Chardonnay and laughs. "Now if I can just figure out how to make prune wine...
...White House. After cocktails in the Red Room, the 24 or so participants, including Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, sat down at a horseshoe-shaped table for elegantly served courses of mushroom soup, venison and wild rice, accompanied by Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Since it was a seminar as well as a dinner, guest experts talked while the others ate, giving prepared comments on the future of NATO, postelection politics in Russia and the economic stagnation across Europe...
...result is a movie that really means to be funny. The new Attack spoofs '90s notions of male insecurity and female empowerment. The plot follows the old line: Nancy (Daryl Hannah) is married to a bonehead (Daniel Baldwin), who prefers cavorting in motels with beauticians named Honey to sipping Chardonnay at home with his wife. For years he has chipped away at Nancy's self-esteem. She's 5 ft. 10 in., but inside she feels about the size of a Barbie doll. All that changes when Nancy emerges from an auspicious UFO encounter a full 50 ft. tall...
What does the above quote describe? A fine Chardonnay, gourmet preserves, perhaps the new flavors of Skittles? No, this gushing adulation can be found in the Summer 1993 issue of The Coffee Connection News, in praise of a coffee known as "Dota Blend." The News goes on at great length about "fruitiness," "body" and "character" of various blends of beans assembled from assorted poverty-stricken Third World nations for our gustatory pleasure...