Champagne and white wine.
Too sweet and metallic.
I drink the mandatory sip of champagne on New Years Eve or at a wedding reception. Why was champagne such a desired beverage in the black and white movies? There must have been limited opions back then…
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Have you ever had good champagne? Most champagne is actually pretty dry (they are “brut”), and the cheap champagnes and sparkling wines like Korbel have sugar added. Try something like Moet in the 25 buck a bottle range or in the 30 buck range, veuve Cliquot orange label…or even in the cheaper wines,look for one made in france and italy, even if it is blanc de blanc, and says “brut”. My favorite champagne is roeder estate L’hermitage (it is a california vintage champagne), it tastes like the very expensive champagnes but is around 45-50 bucks around here, if you want to splurge.
or for “cheap” bubbly which is not actually champagne but rather sparkling wine (as is anything not from the champagne region of France, Spanish iterations are cava’s). Domaine Ste Michelle brut is fairly drinkable. Lots of nice options in the 30 dollar range and you can consider trying an extra dry as well.
Cheap champagne. Yuck, life is too short.
Moet stopped making White Star (and I’m culinarily devastated by it), but they do have a new one called Imperial Nectar that’s not too bad. A bit of a mead aroma to it. Not the bready, sexy deliciousness of White Star, but not too bad.
I’m not a fan of rose champagne, either. Have yet to fine one that’s not icky.
The Veuve Rose is pretty tasty as is the Roederer if I recall, but in general I am not a fan.
I used to be in the wine business many many moons ago and sold a fair amount of high end bubbly. One of the sales incentives was splits of orange label up to magnums and the occasional la grande dame.
It was my “house” champagne for years. I miss that.
Cheap sparking wine ruins a perfectly good mimosa
IMHO Moderately priced prosecco drinks better than most champagnes, and of course makes a proper Bellini.
Was given a bottle of Krug Grand Cuvee (in the fancy box) for xmas and it is just gonna sit there…
I completely agree on the Prosecco!
Unfortunately my H doesn’t care for it. The bubbles are too tiny… GRR. I’ll buy freixenet for him.
Cheesecake
Eggs
Mushrooms
Mayonnaise
Pumpkin pie
Most fruit-based pies
Liquor
Cooking
NYE 1989-90. Worst hangover of all time. Just the sight of that black bottle drives me mad.
“Was given a bottle of Krug Grand Cuvee (in the fancy box) for xmas and it is just gonna sit there…”
Invite your CC friends over. I’ll bring some food. 
YES, Hate Pumpkin and all things pumpkin!
Do not like sweet wines. Blech. Used to date a wine broker (before I met DH). We would drink vintage Roederer Cristal. (Its in a clear bottle wrapped in orange cellophane). Seriously yummy, yeasty stuff.
Well, if the Pats were not in it, I’d be in the camp of not caring. But even if they were not, I’d still watch the Superbowl for the commercials and the half-time show.
Sangria
my worst hangover of all time
The slow train from Madrid to Barcelona. Red Vinyl banquettes. No AC. Only food for purchase was dried jamon. BeeGees piped in. For eight hours
Gotta second the recommendation for Krug. I thought I hated champagne until I tasted Krug. H is a big fan and when D got married, he insisted that they have Krug for the champagne toast. The guy at venue (a restaurant) almost fell off his chair. (It wasn’t a big wedding.) Since then, whenever we go to the restaurant, we get treated very well.
I worked as an OPC one summer on the Cape during college. If you went on a tour of our timeshares, you would get “twenty silver dollars and a bottle of French champagne.” After the two hour, high pressure sales pitch, you got a paper check and a bottle of Portuguese Freixenet. It still tastes like scam to me.
We get Schramsberger (not Schramsberg) for special occasions.
Another hate: Tom Cruise. His last decent movie, to me, was Risky Business.
I might have already mentioned this seconding someone else, but the book (and movie) Gone Girl, I can’t believe anyone thought the book or the movie were good. Not saying the author is not a good writer (she is), but wow, it had to be a record how badly I reacted to it. I don’t know how a sociopathic, murderous wife and a self involved husband make for interesting reading shudder.
American football. It’s just constantly stopping, with no fluidity, as if it were designed to maximize commercials. Rugby, on the other hand…
Yes, the Superbowl. Have never watched it, have no interest. I wrote my English Regents essay on the banality of the violence inherent in football. I will watch the half-time show because, for some bizarre reason that even I can’t figure out, I really like Lady Gaga.
I hate football and would not even let my kids try it.
@marvin100: Are you my husband?