But it’s not the only reason to quit the fizzBritons, famously, love prosecco: we drank 40 million litres of it last year, which was Boris Johnson’s rather circuitous rationale for why it would all be fine, fine, fine after we left the EU. River Island have a prosecco slogan T-shirt – “I’ll be there in a prosecco” – and they’re not the only ones. Prosecco has that inexplicable, unmarketable status as the drink you drink when it would be inappropriate to drink a proper drink, a bit like Pimm’s without the vitamins. Prosecco hangovers have a particular quality, like having your eyeballs removed and replaced by pear drops. I saw a stag party walking past the pub last night, carrying a pick’n’mix of booze, including prosecco.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2017 14:26 UTC