in the US, we call alcohol free wine: grape juice.


"Plug" <gluggaglug@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi folks,
>
> Having been dry now for many months - I've stopped counting, good sign? -
I
> am still appalled/disappointed/annoyed that so few places offer a decent
> alternative to wine and beer. Do the same problems exist in the States,
> Australia and South Africa? (I'm thinking of recent posters) Sparkling
> water is usually very nasty or ridiculously over priced; coke and lemonade
> are either of the hose pipe variety or served out the back from a large
> plastic bottle that has invariably gone flat. We have recently been
flooded
> with J2O in the UK - a Britvic drink that is actually quite nice -
although
> a litttle sweet - but I can only take so much of it. I have never been
> offered alcohol free wine whilst eating out - although it is easy to get
to
> drink at home. The best places for interesting drinks are veggie
> restaurants but I don't get to go to those very often. Any ideas? Should
> we form some sort of Soft Drink Alliance pressure group? I'm sure some of
> you will come up with a suitable acronym
>
> Deb/Bubba
>
>
>