Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Red Wine Debacle Overcome by Efficient Application of Oxy Clean

It's been brought to my attention that some people haven't heard of Oxy Clean! The shame! How do you people get by? Thing is, from time to time, Ugly Juice needs to fully endorse certain commercial products. Here's the thing about Oxy Clean. It amazingly gets red wine out of anything. I have had many a white skirt and carpet saved by this product.

Here's the uncanny chain of events that unfolded the other night: A glass of red wine is spilled on my white carpet. Friend looks up with big, concerned eyes. I smile, no worries, I have Oxy-Clean. I demonstrate this magical product, which eliminates the spot completely. Summra sits down immediately after this, and, commenting on how wonderful Oxy is, crosses her legs and in doing so spills her own glass of red wine all over her light blue linen skirt. Shoot, I say, let's go upstairs and take care of that, and, standing up, I spill a few drops of red wine from my own glass onto my own white linen pants.

Were we on Candid Camera?

(Anyhoo, as you may have guessed, Oxy took care of the whole situation.)

Incidentally, there was a lot of red wine consumed at that party. The Fat Bastard Shiraz was probably my favorite, although we opened a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck (Charles Shaw from Trader Joe's) which was decent. In fact, I could see myself drinking a lot of that.

Does anyone know if there's truth behind the rumor that a Trader Joe's is opening here in the Twin Cities?

9 Comments:

At 9:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll second the OxyClean plug. I use it to take out the heavy stains one comes across working in an Italian restaurant wearing white longsleeves.

My current favs for wine:
Murphy Goode Cab
Maculan Pino and Toi
Gundlach Bundschu Bearitage (claret)
Bonny Doon Big House Red

Tonight I'm giving Castle Rock's Pino Noir a shot.

-j

 
At 9:20 PM, Blogger Ugly Juice said...

Ooooh, thanks for the wine suggestions. We are big fans of the Big House Red (and Bonny Doon in general--especially love the Syrah)

 
At 9:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you happen to find a place to buy the Maculan Pino and Toi, let me know... We carry it at Biaggi's and I was told that you aren't gonna find it locally, and its my favorite white.

Monkey Bay's Sauv Blanc is also very nice, fruity, melons... at the tasting we decided it was the perfect breakfast wine, heh.

BTW- the Castle Rock Pino Noir is pretty good. Lotsa fruit, very short finish.

I'll keep you posted on my next wine tasting party, I think it will be a Sideways viewing as well.

-j

 
At 9:34 PM, Blogger Ugly Juice said...

We're going to a Traveling Vineyard wine-tasting party next weekend. Have you ever done that? I've been to one before, it's decent, the wine is all reasonably priced ($8-15) and you learn a lot about the wine while having fun with your friends & in your own home. I know it smacks a little of the tupperware party, but I thought it was fun.

 
At 10:41 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Friend, that Ugly Juice graciously left unnamed, who looked up with "big, concerned eyes" is in fact moi - Summra. In fact when this unfortunate event occured and red wine went sloshing everywhere on Anna's beautiful white carpet I wanted to DIE. The first thought was oh , $%&* (keepin' it G-rated)along with "great, we're never gettin' invited back here!".

But thanks to Oxy Clean, the disaster was averted and a friendship saved.

Anna - please don't flinch at all the grammar mistakes in this and all other things I post . I'm still trying to get over my complex.

-S.

 
At 12:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Trader Joe's will be here (at Excelsior & Grand in St. Louis park) in the spring of 2006, I beleive.

Try Bogle Petite Syrah (usually cheapest at Cost Plus World Market) for a big, good, & cheap red wine.

 
At 3:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The current wine sale at Byerly's is giving me justification to sneak down there and try two news ones from our buddies Bonny Doon. They have the second coolest series labels ever:

Il Circo: Uva di Troia "La Violetta"
http://www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/wine/view/49

Il Circo: Ruche "La Donna Connone"
http://www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/wine/view/91

 
At 3:40 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

WE HAD TWO BUCK CHUCK HERE AND NO ONE GAVE ME ANY?

Anna..do you even pay attention to me anymore?

 
At 7:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like you guys were pretty tipsy . . . .

 

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