I'm not a fan of the Bernie Mac show. Something about the staging and lighting always made it seem very dark and claustrophobic. I don't like it. That said, the other day I caught the last half of an episode. It wasn't very good, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it, but one part blew my mind. The episode involved Bernie making friends with some guy and forcing his nephew to be friends with the guy's kid, despite the kid being a mean, boring kid. Then Bernie realizes that the guy sucks too, so he doesn't want to be friends with him. He figures that all he has to do is get the nephew to stop pretending to be friends with the kid and then he can break off the friendship with the guy on those grounds. ANYWAY, the guy comes over at the end and brings a box of wine:
Do you see that box? Do you??
BANANA WINE!!! I want that! I google'd it and found nothing. I know that productions make up products and such, but this was only used in a single shot, so why go to all that work, right? RIGHT? Can anyone help? All I could find were recipes to make my own banana wine, but I'm not ready for that kind of commitment. Please, find me some banana wine!!
Update: I posted a comment for the author of
The Boxed Wine Spot in an effort for some assistance from an expert.
2 comments:
we bought a house, we have eight extra rooms in which we could make banana wine. we could do it. once our kitchen is usable i intend on becoming a master of sangria. i will become so fat from the amount of wine i will consume. oh wait- ab lounge!
Hello from the Boxed Wine Spot! What a fun idea. However, I'm not sure that I could actually stomach this brew. Only a couple experiences of classical conditioning have taught me that the words "with natural flavors" on a box equal a massive barfing hangover in the morning. But it was a lot of fun to track down the images. It all had a very familiar look to it, and it didn't take long to find all the individual elements.
This is "shopped" using the image from the old Almaden boxes, prior to their recent re-design. The photo of the wine pouring into the foreground glass, and the fuzzy glass in the background, are cloned from the image used on the older Almaden Chard, Golden Chablis, Mountain Rhine Wine, and Mountain Chablis. They seem to have airbrushed out the medallion/seal graphic which was originally superimposed over the right side of that image.
The inspiration for the font selections, the graphic element of the brass color bar under the "Bellina" name with the white letters on it (can't read what it says), and the words "with natural flavors", comes from Franzia (also from the older box design, not the current design).
Sorry Dan, no banana wine in a box.
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