OK, I've been as critical as anyone of the ABC Board for banning the Gladiator Wine label based on an 1800's design showing a nude woman on a bicycle. But the latest magazine to mock the state over that boneheaded decision goes too far even for me!
Tasting Panel Magazine editorializes (on page 4) about the decision, including a reminder for their elite readers that Alabama is also home to "...The Talledega 500 and The National Peanut Festival". So? Are they jealous over the fact that NASCAR fans probably consume more beer than wine? And what's with the peanut hate?
Then they have the bad taste to remind America that Alabama has the second lowest High School graduation rate in America (TGFM). A low blow, and especially galling because the magazine is located in California! Like shooting fish in a barrel I'd say. Starting with "bankruptcy" and working my way through the Santa Cruz Fungus Festival and the Spam Festival and the annual Accordion Festival, Californians are way too easy to mock for them to be throwing any stones.
Ahhh... Tim.
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Besides, you should've learnt by now.
Californians are better'n you!
Not only do they feed the USA, they feed the world, have the world's 10th largest economy in the world (if it were an independent nation), have Silicon Valley, and more (not to mention high taxes, crime, idiotic laws, pollution, etc.), and they have some pretty good craft beers out west too!
*LOL*
Wine?
Snob... (making ultra high-priced hooch on cheap, migrant farm labor).
Now, in all honesty, not all Californians are like that!
There are actually some good, down-to-Earth folks to be found among those weird squeaky wheels.
NASCAR has three annual Sprint Cup races in California, the Auto Club 500 and Pepsi 500 in Fontana (San Bernardino County) and the Toyota/Save Mart 350 in Sonoma County.
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