back when i worked at a supermarket..
i was an expert in playing 'product lucky dip'. when ever ANYONE asks you what 'xxx' goes with 'xxx', just guess! when i started (age 17) i worked in the bws (beers wines and spirits) isle, which is a killer for this kinda thing, as lots of people come in ready to cook a special meal and want a good wine to go with it. particularly men. particularly on valentines/mothers day. anyways, if someone asked me what wine went with venison (or similar) i would look at them, estimate how much they wanna spend (£3-4 for yer average chav, up to 8 for a young professional, anything for anyone over 35) and pick a bottle in that price range. then make something up about it complimenting something. mostly it was entirely random, but on a mission the week before valentines day, i managed to clear out all 11 remaining bottles (i'd broken one) of some random expensive wine that we'd had in stock for about 3 years (not a single one purchased in that time). god knows what most of them tasted like, but very occasionally i'd get someone saying 'you reccomended 'xx' to me last week and it was delicious, what should i have with xxxxx' - it seems that even with 500 odd different types of wine, i'd occasionally get it right :)

appologies for the length of the dimple in teh bottle of a wine bottle. while it doesnt make the wine more expensive, apparently more expensive wines *do* have it. why someone doesnt just make some chavtastic wine for £3, stick a big dimple in it and charge double i'll never know..
(5lab, Wed 29 Jun 2005, 12:36, Reply)