"Vincent Vega" in ...
>
>> [Gratuitously unattributed nested quotation follows -- MH]
>>
>> IMO, we post-WWII Americans were
>> raised on Coca-Cola, Moon Pies, and Wonder Bread and we
>> like soft and sweet. I'm speaking in the "collective we" BTW.
>> While Europeans view wine as a food group and part of a meal,
>> Americans tend to drink it as a beverage and they want smooth,
>> soft and rich.
>
> I wouldnt say that we like less acidity because of Coca-Cola and
> Moon Pies. It is probably more because we have become accustomed
> to CA wines that have a nearly perfect growing season and grapes (as
> I have been taught) tend to rippen further than the European wines
> you were discussing. These are less acidic so this is what the American
> wine culture and taste is accustomed to. Relating our culture to moon
> pies is kinda insulting. Our climate grows "smooth, soft and rich" wines
> and that is what we have grown accustomed to enjoy.


I don't know whence this adamantly fatuous "We" comes, I have been hearing
it now for some years (thus "we" in the US didn't drink wine before 1983 and
"we" assume that a latterly faddish wine critic "speaks for the consumer" --
Stalin spoke, I remind you, for "the people" and was a great hero to many in
the US too [Note 1]; even, in a US TV-listings publication, an article on
"Beverly Hills 90210" extols "the episodes WE grew up with," God almighty
therefore help "us"). While acknowledging the first (here unattributed,
don't worry I looked it up for myself) poster's disclaimer I do disclaim
membership in the cheery involuntary collective endlessly presumed here. I
wish YOU people (the collective "YOU") might get a clue and speak simply for
YOUrselves.

(In unfashionable unglamorous actuality, some in the post-war US were
desperately preserving and preparing and writing about slow food, immigrant
and native food traditions, and flavor, while new ambitious pundits pimping
for convenience-food firms and back-stabbing honest knowledgeable voices
arose and now posthumously are celebrated by "us" as innovators of US
cooking. Stalin would be impressed. For documentation see the Hesses'
_Taste of America_ if YOU for some reason have managed to ignore it for the
last 29 years.

I thank YOU! (There, *I* feel better.)

--
Note 1: "Hence socialism is converted from a dream of a better future for
humanity into a science." -- J. V. Stalin, _Dialectical and Historical
Materialism,_ International Publishers, New York, 1940. (Not from online.
From the original. Dammit.)