Hello Kitty’s Beaujolais Nouveau
Listen to wisdom of the ages/ageless….
“Let people all over the world drink delicious wine and live their dreams in happiness.“
–HELLO KITTY
First Beaujolais shipments arrive; Aeon to serve in plastic bottles
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008 – japantimes.co.jp (Kyodo) NARITA, Chiba Pref.– This year’s first shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau arrived Friday at Narita and other airports in Japan…. Aeon Co. said it will offer this year’s… “special” Beaujolais Nouveau…in 750-ml plastic bottles instead of glass, and priced at 1,780 yen, undercutting the average market price of 2,000 to 3,000 yen...more…
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November 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Drinking piss from a plastic bottle… It’s class with a capital C…
Do they offer a free Renault to go with ? it’s not like we are selling them anyway…
November 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
My japanese friend wrote to my on mixi (Japanese version of myspace):
>>They put wine in a PLASTIC bottle?ボケーっとした顔 <<
I guess it is fitting that they put plonk in plastic.
(That is, beaujolais nouveau is most famous in France as cheap and unsophisticated wine that people don’t take very seriously…sort of like Hello Kitty. This イオン product is sure to be a hit here in Japan, ha, ha.)
November 11th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
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November 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Yeah, traditionnally it’s also extra cheap table wine that is sold either on plastic bottle of 1 liter (same shape as vinegar bottles, sometimes same taste) or cubitainer which are 3-5 litter cube like brown PP plastic square bottles (did I mention they where cube like ?). Street name is “piquette”. And even beaujolais is an upgrade from them… at least provided in glass bottles. I remember when I was in high school the brasserie (coffe shop) beside us was storing the empty bottle during all the beaujaulais nouveau periode on the sidewalk (empty bottles called “cadavers”). And yes, we were accounting for quite some of them helped by some teachers. (kind of dumb kids with rich parents boot camp highschool option graduation or death, some kind of unregistered cram school in legal gray area where it was perfectly legal -or at least not illegal- to get drunk with the students). And before you ask, no it was not in some remote lost craphole in the mountain side with no electricity, water from the river and visit from the postman once a week a the same time as the travelling butcher. It was South of Paris 5 min from the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterand in China town… Humm… dog meat sandwich… The hunt for red october dubbed in mandarin… And those hot girls with 50 brothers and cousins ready to beat up your ass if you were looking at their ass for too long…
November 12th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Gee, HELLO KITTY just reminds us to, “live our dreams in happiness.(c)“
April 19th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I guess the next step will be to put it into the large dispensable boxes.