Comic Strips n' Sippy Cups

Today's post is about a tiny, cute li'l portable cup of wine and a tiny, cute li'l comic strip drawn by yours truly! But don't be fooled by cuteness....only ONE of these things gets good review today, and I'm betting I'm not about to trash talk my art . . . ~

The Drink: Copa DeVino wine-in-a-cup, Riesling. 
The Place: South Loop area, Chicago IL
The Art: The Hasty Pastry weekly comic strip.

Click read more below for the Riesling reaction~

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This plastic cup of Riesling, complete with replaceable cap and peel-back foil, looks ultra cute and fun.  Kind of like that manic pixie dream girl at the bar that every guy has his eyes on.  But drinking this wine was like taking that girl home and finding out she's wearing a padded bra, she's still obsessed with her ex, and when you kiss her you can taste her lunch -- from last week.  What was cute and promising on the outside ended up a giant disappointment, namely due to the fact that this wine tasted exactly like plastic.  Copa presents this is a convenient, pre-cupped wine, so I drank it that way, but the adhesive that holds down the foil stank and tainted the flavor of the already plasticy wine.  Maybe pouring it into a glass would have helped, but nothing could cover the weak, spiked grape juice flavor and flat sweetness that had none of the crispness a white should have.  I sipped my way through half the glass, then chugged the rest out of desperation to have the experience over.  For $4, this wine was already vastly over priced, but the horrible flavor experience destroyed any novelty the cup and convenience might have given it.  My previous post on Wine Cube Brand already set me up with some pre-packaged wine expectations, but I would highly recommend Wine Cube, where the sight of these Copa Cups brings a toxic flavor to my mouth.     

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So maybe you're thinking, how could this girl get anything done after such a let down?  Well, I didn't do diddlysquat.  I gave up for the night and curled up with a book, so the art feature today is on my reoccurring comic strip~!

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Printed in the Columbia Chronicle newspaper and distributed throughout Chicago's South loop, The Hasty Pastry is a strip based off my full length comic project by the same name ( The Hasty Pastry Online ).

The Hasty Pastry is a story about a 19 year old girl, Cat, and her French Bulldog confusingly named Pugsly.  They work together at a Chicagoland bakery, The Hasty Pastry, where Cat yerns for a managerial promotion and Pugsly makes it his mission to eat all the pastries he can.  Dealing with crazy customers, colorful fellow employees, and frustrating bosses, takes up most of Cat's time. 

In the printed strips, the reader gets a small snapshot of Cat and Pugly's lives, interacting with customer, coworkers, and characters that reappear in the full storyline.  Printed at 1.6" x 9.7" , these small, four panel stories are released weekly in the Monday print of the newspaper, but can be read online shortly thereafter HERE~ 







While it keeps things interesting to have a negative review every once in a while, here's hoping Friday's drink won't be so disappointing.  I'm the one who has to drink it, after all c;

-Ali
The Wet Stain

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