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    1 day ago

    Red wine with cola is a popular drink in Spain!

    And every supermarket in Germany has a shelf of beer mixed with sweet soda. Beer+cola is really good IMO, but you need to mix it 2:1 instead of 1:1 like most of the pre-bottled ones. AND they’re drinking cappuccino in the afternoon!

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      23 hours ago

      Every country mixes their main alcohol with coke. Even french people know what Kalimotxo is, thanks to the Basque.

      In any case, I think the image shows watered down wine, not Kalimotxo.

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          23 hours ago

          And guess what’s ice. When the ice melts the wine gets… Watered down. That’s why you frost the wine in other ways, you could use iced wine cubes lol.

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            21 hours ago

            Watered down wine has been popular since antiquity, if not earlier. Though I do kind of agree with the Italians that ice is not the way to do it, at least for red wine. Using stillwater makes it much easier to control the dilution.

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            22 hours ago

            It hurts on multiple levels, sure you water it down but also a red wine rarely needs to be cooled down in such manner anyway.

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              22 hours ago

              I ensure you that keeping the bottle surrounded by iced water like they do in most high end Spaniard restaurants will cool it down just as much or more. Some varieties of red wine are expected to be taken colder.

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                22 hours ago

                I’m well aware. I’m also well aware you will be hard pressed to find any wine that’s to be server at cocktail level of cold.

                Hence the triggering.

                • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  22 hours ago

                  Oh, it’s not served at that temperature, it’s just that when it’s 30c outside you kinda do need to put that much ice in the bucket to counteract the weather.

                  In any case, yeah, the depiction is triggering.

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah, but mixing wine with cola is clearly worse than mixing it with water, from the perspective of food purists. Also I’d be surprised if wine+cola was popular in Italy.

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        24 hours ago

        Exactly. Depends on how bitter the beer is and personal taste, but it’s definitely more beer than 1:1.