Wine coolers are the bread makers of the mid-2000s. I don't drink wine, so the reason for their popularity eludes me. My wife does, but we're talking a bottle a month.
Imagine the irony when my 18-year-old daughter wins a wine cooler this week at a cosmetics event hosted by a local department store. She doesn't drink, either, and this fall she's moving into residence at a university where drinking is banned.
This free wine cooler is ugly. All black plastic, tall and narrow, with a red LED announcing the current temperature. In fact, it looks like an oversized desktop computer. I suppose I could call it our "server".
The alternative is to fill it with non-alcoholic drinks. I plugged it in, and put in a variety of pop, water, and juice bottles. Some 24 hours later, the temperature fell from 13C to 8C; I'm hoping it'll reach its lowest temperature of 4C within another week. So now I know what a wine cooler is: a really weak refrigerator.
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