Greece Is Now In Australia Apparently !

[mikey4444]

Yesterday, I was in Morrisons and really fancied a bottle of Retsina, to go with the smoked haddock that I was going to have for my dinner.

I remember those wonderful oily Retsinas from my youth, travelling around the Greek Islands.....always served from a jug ...and cheap as chips !

So I asked the Morrisons chap in the wine aisle, and he asked where did Retsina come from. when I told him Greece, he started rummaging around in the Australian section. When I asked him why, he said...."well...isn't Greece in Australia ? "

I gave up at that stage and bought a nice Muscadet instead !

[Old_Geezer]

I like German wines too.

[1ozzy]

Every country is represented in Oz ;-)

[mikey4444]

Iozzy.....they are indeed !

Do supermarkets in Oz still that wine that comes in plastic one gallon containers Iozzy ?

[mikey4444]

OG...lol !

[1ozzy]

Flagons are a thing of the past Mikey, but "goon bags" are available.

[DTCwordfan]

mikey he has a point - there are over 150000 Greek heritage folk in Melbourne, making it the 6th largest Greek city in the world. London, if you include the Cypriots would be number 7. Montreal would just make the top 20.

[mikey4444]

Thanks 1ozzy...I now have another colourful strine word in my dictionary !

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goon%20bag

[mikey4444]

DTC...all that may be true, but I would bet my last dollar that the Morrisons man didn't know that !

[NoMercy]

Gruner Veltiner comes from Australia too. Oh no hang on....

[DTCwordfan]

(London is also the sixth largest french city (after Nantes) and may well be fifth now, as many think there are over 400k frogs over here).

[1ozzy]

Happy to have assisted with your education Mikey ;-)

[Svejk]

///Every country is represented in Oz ///

Only the ones that had transportation, shirley.

[Patsy33]

I thought Australia was in Greece??

[1ozzy]

Whatever you reckon Bruce.

[Tilly2]

The chap in Morrisons wasn't American, was he?

[Old_Geezer]

No. Australia is where they wear those leather shorts, slap each others' ***, and yodel.

(Or is that just the clubs I visit ?)

[Old_Geezer]

What a cheek !

******ing me like that

[NoMercy]

I think that used to be known as Bushwackers, OG.

[Svejk]

Poor old mikey. Every time he goes to the shops, he's surrounded by L̶a̶b̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶v̶o̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ idiots.

[1ozzy]

Think it might be the clubs you visit OG.
Sounds interesting though.