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October 5, 2008
Whiskey Samples
You know how grocery stores will, on busy afternoons and weekends, offer free samples? They usually consist of fruit or baked goods or something benign and relatively snackable that can be served on toothpicks - but today, while at the supermarket, we came across a little display table at which free samples of hard liquor were being offered. Wow! Is this a regional thing? Standing behind this table beladen with bottles of scotch and whiskey was a diminutive woman named Carol. She offered us shots of an autumnal strain of honey bourbon; I declined, because I don't eat honey - which set off a thirty minute discussion that ranged from veganism to filmmaking to the links between the two. I normally tend to shy away from discussing both my dietary and career choices, but shucks if her genuine Midwestern curiosity didn't turn me into a faucet of personal information and other fun facts (like, for example, how most wines are distilled with fish intestines). If we made the good impression we think we did, she'll be talking about us for at least the next week. Word of mouth, folks.
Posted by David Lowery at October 5, 2008 12:33 AM
Comments
Dude!! I should have come in a day early!! Free whiskey?!!
Posted by: Adam Donaghey at October 5, 2008 10:50 AM
So, what you're saying is, let me get this straight... you didn't drink the free booze?
Posted by: Clay Liford at October 5, 2008 11:15 PM