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lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  not that i can even drink wine

  Because of your drinking problem?

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no because the sulphides combine with my medication to give me turbo-hangovers after a quarter of a glass.

    but the airplane explanation is funnier so yeah, it’s that

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      So is it only wine that messes you up? It’d be interesting to know if you get any negative reactions from Breznak for example next time you’re at Systembolaget (if you even drink, I dunno)

      No one ever believes me; they genuinely seem to think I get hungover even if I drink just a single beer. Then I can drink them under the table with any kind of spirits, and have no hangover the next day.

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    • logi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then you might bring your own sulphide free wine and pay the corkage fee.

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      • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I also thought that I was really intolerant of sulfites, as most red wine gives me a headache directly, but it doesn’t seem to be just that…

        One way I noticed this was that my boss’s favorite beer is Breznak, and so when he gave me a can as my first drink after-work, I got immediately headached, despite that it should have pretty low levels of sulfites. And then I made the connection a couple weeks later when the same thing happened. So the third time he wanted to hang after work, I took some macro lagers with me (Norrlands Guld), and I drank several without problems.

        I can even drink a ton of vodka and not have a headache the next day… but if you give me a half glass of red wine or many different kinds of beer, I immediately get the worst headaches. I wish I knew why.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        i feel like that’s more of an allergy thing than a preference thing though.

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• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you think about it, there are hundreds of thousands of combinations of wine labels and vintages from thousands of producers. Some people who collect the wine and store it at home will want to enjoy the wine they have with a professionally prepared meal, and will bring that wine to a restaurant, and enjoy the entire service aspect of it (pouring into nice glasses, etc.).

  It doesn’t make much sense for ordinary bottles of wine. So the people who do this usually bring special, hard to find, significantly aged, or sentimental bottles. And because the restaurant still provides the service of opening and pouring the wine into nice glasses that they’ll clean, there’s usually a per bottle charge added to the bill.

  So it’s not super common, just also not super rare, either.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    but why would you bring that kind of wine to an edinburgh curry house (which is where i first saw it mentioned)

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    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Sometimes you can bring a cheap bottle of wine and even with the corkage fee it ends up being less than the cheapest bottle of wine at the restaurant.

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It’s just a really easy thing for restaurants to do. Even if it’s not listed many will do this.

      I have only ever encountered it in the context of wine though. I wonder what would have if I brought a bottle of whiskey.

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    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Maybe the wine at the curry house was shit and they knew it so they brought their own.

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    • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      If you were a wino and that was your favorite restaurant, why wouldn’t you?

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• Keilik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes people will bring a bottle from a particular year (year they got married on a big anniversary date) or will have some other particular sentimental reasoning for this, so it’s not very often.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sure but if it doesn’t happen very often there’s no real reason to charge for it?

    maybe it’s differing alcohol cultures, idk. according to some bullshit map i saw years ago i live in the “vodka belt”, so maybe i’m too drunk off of ambient fumes to get it.

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    • Keilik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes but the up-charge on wine is absolutely obscene and can frequently be more than what they earn on the food. Additionally, the places that can get away with this are the kind of places where arguing about what would be a relatively small charge on the bill would be so incredibly awkward that you wouldn’t dare.

      So it’s extortion basically, but fancy.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        so the reason i haven’t seen it is probably the alcohol tax that adds 50€/liter of pure ethanol to every beverage. it’s just not useful here.

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If there was no charge then everyone would bring their own, and they would have to start charging more for the food to make up for the loss.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        not if they just say no.

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• Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some municipalities do not grant liquor licenses to restaurants so BYOB is the loophole.

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• Hal@piefed.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where I live bring your own places to would be cheap end restaurants not ones that pair the right wine with food.

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• Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Many cigar lounges will do the same if you want to smoke cigars you got elsewhere at their lounge.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s even weirder, because as far as i understand it, the things that pair well with cigars are in general not things you need to have at specific places.

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    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not really about the pairing, if these places allow liquor they usually have a nice selection or is byob. Many cigar shops only carry certain brands, and many cigars aren’t meant to be smoked when you buy them, but to be aged.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        man the rest of the world really needs to adopt kalsarikännit already

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