Re: [CH] ALERT: Chile finds at Big Lots!

Linda Reynolds (lr21@cornell.edu)
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:05:32 -0400 

Yup, it is a crap shoot and I hear what you are saying. The idea of 
going out to the car for a sample is a great idea. I love your 
friend, two buck chuck because my ex-husband and I used to do the 
exact same thing with the bargain barrel wines. We would buy a 
couple, many times a Yugoslavian wine for 2 bucks and take them home 
for our midnight BBQ sessions. If they sucked, they got dumped into 
the onion and mushroom saute for the steak. If they were good, we 
drank them. Avia comes to mind.

Haven't been able to go back to Big Lots so I have hyped all of you 
up and won't be able to report back on the value if they sell out first!
Dang work gets in the way! Hey, retirement is an income not an age so 
I am hoping the income comes first!!!!!!

At 11:05 PM 9/30/2007, KnoxBill wrote:

>big lots is a crap shoot...i've found some good stuff there and some 
>real stinko stuff...problem is, that if you buy one bottle and get 
>it home to discover it is the tastiest thing in town, by the time 
>you rush back to the store it may be sold out...conversely, if you 
>buy three of something that looks good, and find that the garbage 
>disposal refuses to process it, it is not such a good buy...
>
>so, i took a clue from a friend who is a connoisseur of fine $2 
>wines (two buck chuck)...she says there are prizes in the barrel, 
>but often you get a clunker...so she carries a corkscrew in the car, 
>buys one bottle that she thinks she will like, takes it to the car, 
>opens it, samples it and if it is good, goes back in and buys a 
>case...if it is plonk, she dumps it and goes back to try 
>another...(her car is the one with the large purple stain next to it 
>in TJ's parking lot)...
>
>when i spot something interesting at big lots, i buy a single bottle 
>and a small bag of chips...take it to the car, open it and taste 
>it...if it is good, i go back and buy three more bottles...if it's 
>really good, i buy them out...if not, i've only wasted a couple bucks...