Poor winos gotta drink too.

No longer two bucks

3 or maybe even 4 buck chuck here. I drink a bottle now and again.

How's it sold? Good and cold.

I bought some 2.77 wine @ WalMart when I had to take a friend there. I figured, if it was horrible I could use it to clean parts. I've paid more for worse.

my favoite use for this stuff: buy a case of it, go out into the desert with it, and shoot it at 300yrds with rifles from ww2.

shooting full wine bottles with a .22 and they break like if you drop it; shooting a wine bottle with a full sized 8mm mauser cartridge and they explode very satisfyingly.

its my own take on "red mist"

Father_Jack: my favoite use for this stuff: buy a case of it, go out into the desert with it, and shoot it at 300yrds with rifles from ww2.

shooting full wine bottles with a .22 and they break like if you drop it; shooting a wine bottle with a full sized 8mm mauser cartridge and they explode very satisfyingly.

its my own take on "red mist"

That's alcohol abuse, drink it first, then fill the bottles with something else...of course do not drink it while shooting unless you want a Darwin award.

/never had 2 buck chuck, never been to trader joes
/it's apparently $3.79 in Ohio

Oh, it's ok to give this the spiffy tag, because this particular corner of junk culture has been blessed by farkers (who are not hipsters, they swear) as ironically cool. Hooray!

of course they don't sell it at my trader joes, because massachusetts only allows supermarket chains to sell alcohol in 3 locations state wide. Booo! Change the law!

I always find it funny that I'm willing to pay out the ass at TJ's for the better quality food, but on every trip, pick up a bottle of Two Buck Chuck. It makes my night after putting the kids to bed.

I love their prepackaged spiced soybeans, cranberry walnut tart, their fried rice (with chicken), the orange chicken (I roll it in sesame seeds afterwards for the true "gorge yourself on Chinese buffet" effect), and their mushrooms are cheap as hell and taste really good, though not as good as WholeCheck's. (amidoinitrite?)

I will pay a LOT more for my food, but still shop for 90% of my clothes at Goodwill.

Wait.... does.... does that make me a hipster? Does that make me something? AM I A STEREOTYPE?

Engh, paranoia, good thing I keep some Two Buck Chuck in my cubicle. 8:30 AM? Pshaw, it's five o'clock somewhere!

jbrooks544: of course they don't sell it at my trader joes, because massachusetts only allows supermarket chains to sell alcohol in 3 locations state wide. Booo! Change the law!

You just have to go to the one at 24-26 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138. They're great. They even have enough space to park, usually, unless it's like Saturday at 4.

3 buck chuck (MA) is farking awesome. Today I shall drink a bottle and hope for another 10 years.

I try to avoid making judgement calls most of the time, but most of the people I have heard actually say the words two-buck chuck in conversation tend to be douchebags of one manner or another.

AverageAmericanGuy: Poor winos gotta drink too.

Bets two bucks I ever spent!

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Come at me, bro.

Mack and the boys from Cannery Row sneer at your Two-Buck Chuck and add the remnants of a glass of Old Tennis Shoes into the big jug under the bar.

OhioUGrad: Father_Jack: my favoite use for this stuff: buy a case of it, go out into the desert with it, and shoot it at 300yrds with rifles from ww2.

shooting full wine bottles with a .22 and they break like if you drop it; shooting a wine bottle with a full sized 8mm mauser cartridge and they explode very satisfyingly.

its my own take on "red mist"

That's alcohol abuse, drink it first, then fill the bottles with something else...of course do not drink it while shooting unless you want a Darwin award.

/never had 2 buck chuck, never been to trader joes
/it's apparently $3.79 in Ohio

actually you got that backwards son, Two Buck Chuck Charles Shaw is "wine abuse". calling that stuff wine is an affront to all that is holy and an insult to wines everywhere. shooting it is more of a mercy killing than anything.

youve never been to a trader joes? good lord man. get out of kroeger and get into a good spot!

come to think of it, get out of ohio while youre at it. Unless you live in german village in columbus, that whole state seems to be one base or factory closure away from turning into detroit.

There is a very good reason that wine is so cheap. It is the nastiest thing I ever drank. I bought a bottle of chardonnay and a bottle of pino grigio. I poured a glass of one and took a few sips and ended up dumping it all. I opened the other and ended up doing the same thing. I really think it is only good for target practice.

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Never heard of Cisco, vaguely familiar with Wild Irish Rose. T-Bird and Night Train are the ones we always associated with the skidrow dwellers.

Lastly, there's a reason they call it Mad Dog.

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY!

Trader Joe's finally opens its first store in Florida (Naples) on Feb. 10! I've been planning the cross-state trip every since they announced the opening date. I can pretty much guarantee I'll make up the cost of gas in savings over Publix's prices and end up with better food.

Father_Jack: OhioUGrad: Father_Jack: my favoite use for this stuff: buy a case of it, go out into the desert with it, and shoot it at 300yrds with rifles from ww2.

shooting full wine bottles with a .22 and they break like if you drop it; shooting a wine bottle with a full sized 8mm mauser cartridge and they explode very satisfyingly.

its my own take on "red mist"

That's alcohol abuse, drink it first, then fill the bottles with something else...of course do not drink it while shooting unless you want a Darwin award.

/never had 2 buck chuck, never been to trader joes
/it's apparently $3.79 in Ohio

actually you got that backwards son, Two Buck Chuck Charles Shaw is "wine abuse". calling that stuff wine is an affront to all that is holy and an insult to wines everywhere. shooting it is more of a mercy killing than anything.

youve never been to a trader joes? good lord man. get out of kroeger and get into a good spot!

come to think of it, get out of ohio while youre at it. Unless you live in german village in columbus, that whole state seems to be one base or factory closure away from turning into detroit.

Haha, I know plenty of college students who do not drink "wine" for taste...I thought that was a given on Fark (then again I am still fairly new here).

I was actually unaware there was a Trader Joes around Columbus (apparently there are 2) but hell there is nothing wrong with Kroger (they carry local food, and donate a lot to charity) and Andersons.

I don't think Ohio is that bad...of course depends on where you live in the state and how bad Kasich makes it, but there are too many companies based in Columbus for Ohio (insurance, food, healthcare, etc...) to go the way of Michigan (we just beat them at everything)

Life is like a two buck chuck, you never know what you're going to catch.

If you can catch the Nouveau when Chuck puts it out at the end/beginning of the year it's actually on par with some bottles of French Beaujolais Nouveau that I paid $13.99 for. I'll take the Chuck.

Most of the others are decent wines. Not GREAT, but good enough for something light to serve with dinner once in a while. But then I don't expect greatness for $2.79 plus tax...

OhioUGrad: Father_Jack: OhioUGrad: Father_Jack: my favoite use for this stuff: buy a case of it, go out into the desert with it, and shoot it at 300yrds with rifles from ww2.

shooting full wine bottles with a .22 and they break like if you drop it; shooting a wine bottle with a full sized 8mm mauser cartridge and they explode very satisfyingly.

its my own take on "red mist"

That's alcohol abuse, drink it first, then fill the bottles with something else...of course do not drink it while shooting unless you want a Darwin award.

/never had 2 buck chuck, never been to trader joes
/it's apparently $3.79 in Ohio

actually you got that backwards son, Two Buck Chuck Charles Shaw is "wine abuse". calling that stuff wine is an affront to all that is holy and an insult to wines everywhere. shooting it is more of a mercy killing than anything.

youve never been to a trader joes? good lord man. get out of kroeger and get into a good spot!

come to think of it, get out of ohio while youre at it. Unless you live in german village in columbus, that whole state seems to be one base or factory closure away from turning into detroit.

Haha, I know plenty of college students who do not drink "wine" for taste...I thought that was a given on Fark (then again I am still fairly new here).

I was actually unaware there was a Trader Joes around Columbus (apparently there are 2) but hell there is nothing wrong with Kroger (they carry local food, and donate a lot to charity) and Andersons.

I don't think Ohio is that bad...of course depends on where you live in the state and how bad Kasich makes it, but there are too many companies based in Columbus for Ohio (insurance, food, healthcare, etc...) to go the way of Michigan (we just beat them at everything)

well, i am no longer a college student, nor even a graduate student. so i do indeed drink wine for the taste! If i just wanna get trashed ill drink a buncha beers.

yeah i figured thered be at least one in columbus, if even dayton has one. columbus seems to be on most benchmarks a more tolerable place than dayton.

actually, i meant meijer when i wrote kroeger. when i first started going to ohio to visit (which i thankfully dont have to do any more woot!), i couldnt believe how ghetto all their stuff was. it was impossible to find any chicken breasts that werent injected with broth and water, no cheese that was even worthy of the name... it was a stadium sized supermarket filled with garbage.

then again, the best supermarket in the world is in ohio near cinci, "jungle jims" or something, its surreal. and one of the few places in ohio you can buy Augustiner Braeu from Munich.

To your final "ohio's not that bad comment"... i think that's what people say when theyve decided theyre just resigned to something in their environment sucking. They no its ass, and theres no way to do anything about it, so they just go numb and get used to it. Friends in bad neighborhoods "oh the crimes not that bad..." when i lived in Los angeles, "oh, the traffic'^s not not that bad..." now living in switzerland "oh the winters not that bad..." and life in ohio? well its not that bad..."

but it is. it all is.

Crim sucks in bad neighborhoods, the traffic sucks in LA, winters suck in zurich and yes, ohio sucks too. :)

/but seriously go to jungle gyms outside cinci its incredible

It's only been around for 10 years? And all this time, I thought I'd never heard of it in college because I had good booze taste. Now I realize it's because I'm old.

It's really not too bad.

I remember a news show (60 Minutes? Can't remember) doing a blind taste test with some upper end Napa Valley sommeliers. Blind, they couldn't tell the difference; once they were told what they were drinking, they recanted and said they knew as soon as it hit their palate. That's when I knew that TBC was truly better than most other expensive wines. I snickered at the snobs - the horror on their faces were priceless when they were told they were drinking the lowly Charles Shaw.

Y'all do realize that the grapes they use are ones that have the tiniest of blemishes compared to the same grapes from the same harvests for a $40-$60 wine, right? That there's really nothing much wrong with the wine in general?

On a related note, several years ago, I offered TBC at a family dinner/shindig. My ridiculously pretentious MIL thought it was the best thing ever and was swilling it like a hobo (as was my snobby lawyer SIL). When we got around to chatting about wines, I asked if she liked it; she said it was perfectly lovely and drinkable and all sorts of superlatives.

Having waited so long to take her down a peg, I looked her in the eye and said, "Charles Shaw is Two Buck Chuck." Oh, the horror! Suddenly she thought it was disgusting. She was so transparent. I tried so hard not to laugh out loud.

//yeah yeah CSS
/should get to TJ's soon...

And when I say "ridiculously pretentious MIL" I mean "think Hyacinth Bucket."

ah hell no.

To me, it's cheaper than beer and isn't half bad. I'll have a glass or two while playing Left 4 Dead.

This.

also depends on the varietal. I'm not at all a fan of their merlot, but their cab, syrah, and chard are perfectly ok.

Have I had better? Of course. Have I had better for $3? Nope. All I expect from a $3 bottle is that it not be offensive :)

Father_Jack: my favoite use for this stuff: buy a case of it, go out into the desert with it, and shoot it at 300yrds with rifles from ww2.

shooting full wine bottles with a .22 and they break like if you drop it; shooting a wine bottle with a full sized 8mm mauser cartridge and they explode very satisfyingly.

its my own take on "red mist"

I hope you're cleaning up all that broken glass. Slob shooters that leave trash all over the desert belong in the Special Hell.

I'm a cheap drunk and think TBC ($2.79 in Georgia) is a fine change of pace from beer. Can you do better? Of course. But you'll pay 10X price.

Several bottles of Two buck Chuck are great for making a huge bowl of sangria.

Hey all you wine snobs, "Two buck Chuck" has been rated higher than some 20 dollar a bottle wines in numerous competitions.

llfennell: I'm willing to pay out the ass at TJ's for the better quality food

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Works great for deglazing the pan

Two Buck Chuck gets a bad rap. It certainly isn't horrible stuff.

I live in CA's central coast and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a vine around here. I've been working my way through all the wineries and tasting rooms in the area and a couple things have made themselves clear. 1) Price is not an indication of quality. 2) The posh-ness of the tasting room is no indication of quality.

I'm certainly not a wine snob but I do recognize what tickles my taste buds. I've been to too many very posh tasting rooms that have absolutely crap for wine. Alas that's the wine tourism influence here. The big money invests in garish appointments while the family vineyards invest in their wine.

To say Charles is any worse than some of the big labels is a bit uninformed. They get their grapes from the same fields. Chuck doesn't have to support a large vineyard or a fancy tasting room or a family of leeches and they don't have to price their wine too high to maintain some BS perception of value.

That said, it certainly isn't replacing some of my favorite local cabs for entertaining but for day to day table wine you can't beat the price. I especially like some of their whites in the summer with an ice cube or two.

It'll be interesting to see how the winemakers make out this year between the late and early frosts last season. Some vineyards lost nearly 50% of their grapes. Chuck might not be getting anything from this region this year.

I like Aldi's wine (Winking Owl)

jed000: Hey all you wine snobs, "Two buck Chuck" has been rated higher than some 20 dollar a bottle wines in numerous competitions.

"Two--Buck Chuck" comes from no specific vineyard, but is made with grapes which are cast off because they are too sweet, too sour, etc. On average, the negatives cancel easch other out, and the end result is very good value for the money.

It is a buyers' market for wine these days, because the science of winemaking has advanced so much in recent years, Iron Curtain countries are flooding the market in search of foreign currency, and places like Australia and Texas, never known to be producers before, are cranking it out by the freight train load.

I would personally not ever pay a premium price for wine; the quality gain does not justify the added cost.

It's $3 Chuck in Watfington State.

We can't even do cheap wine right.

jbrooks544: of course they don't sell it at my trader joes, because massachusetts only allows supermarket chains to sell alcohol in 3 locations state wide. Booo! Change the law!

That's why TJ will be closing its Massachusetts store and moving 1 mile north into New Hampshire.