Ingenious marketing. I like the glasses but don’t know what to use them for, surely not for drinks.
They first used this Champagne-style bottle back in 1903. I found this:
A few more French ones:
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I will tell you who you are, if you tell what you eat
Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai qui tu es.
You are what you eat -
You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs
On ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs.
You can’t be successful without making a few sacrifices.
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When something is good, or you’re being sarcastic about it being good, it’s “peachy.”
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And “toasty” when we are cozy and comfortable.
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Re melons
‘Eat it alone or leave it alone’
Austrians and Swiss love to hate Germany and everything in it, including the cuisine. Well, I like Germany and everything in it, including the cuisine. I also feel the same about Austria and Switzerland.
A country whose cuisine is unfairly disparaged, are wine-producing competent, and the food is as varied as the geography and dialects. They have this saying:
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Add music and I’ll join you in that belief.
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Don’t know where it comes from originally, but:
Your goose is cooked now
Meaning you’re in for it now, or you’ve gotten yourself into a bad situation
Easy as pie
To go bananas
Apple of my eye
Spill the beans
Butter someone up
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But the wine in your picture is French!
@bcc: I use that photo because it has both food and wine that’s best consumed together. Next photo has only German wine, when I do drink white wine…
Another German saying (not a poetic translation by yours truly but it’s literally what the saying means):
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@Presunto, I think German food gets a bad rap. I’ve had bad (the fault of the cook only) and good, and I love good German food. Quite underrated and under appreciated in this part of the world, IMO.
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Another one:
Worth your salt
Bier auf Wein, lass das sein; Wein auf Bier, das rate ich dir.
Yes, I translated the saying from that.
But, has anyone tested this theory? Some people did and concluded the order of alcohol didn’t matter. Drink too much and have a hangover the next day all the same.
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I agree.
Reminded me of
Beer on whiskey
Mighty risky
Whiskey on beer
Never fear
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Yeah, same thing and it rhymes like the German version (BBC posts it 2 replies above).
It doesn’t. You body does not have a magical way to distinguish beer-alcohol from wine-alcohol. In my (vast) experience, sugary drinks (like negronis), salty drinks (like bloody marys), and red wine are more likely to give me a hangover, because they tend to be dehydrating.
A similar saying is “Never mix the grain and the grape,” which some of my friends treat as gospel.
I actually made up a second version of the saying:
Wein auf Bier, das rate ich dir;
Bier auf Wein ist auch sehr fein.
