While shopping at Sam's Club this evening, I came across the following item:
I guess it had to happen. What started with "sugar free" sweeteners (remember saccharin?), moved on to decaffeinated coffee (remember Sanka?), and then passed through alcohol-free beer and tofurkey while stopping off at sparkling grape juice has now brought us to "wine-free ... err ... wine". Great, wonderful, fantastic, I can hardly contain my excitement: we've got the basic components of "synthahol" down ... just backwards (or sideways, or something).
Medical science has started to accept the fact that there are good things to be gained from drinking red wine. It was only a matter of time before an enterprising businessman turned it into a marketable item (what with all the pomegranate, goji, and acai elixirs now on the market. I'll buy that ... to a point.
Yet another example of how we allow ourselves to experience things (or parts of things) without having to actually experience the things in reality. Stupid. Oh, yeah, it'll probably make money ... but that doesn't make it smart.
Oh, and bonus points to who can tell me where the title quote came from.
