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Wino Car

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A few weeks ago I bought a pint of scuppernongs from a woman selling them by the side of the road. Scuppernongs are wild grapes that have been tamed and cultivated and are called muscadines now.
Scuppernongs, Muscadines--all the same thing. They are bronze colored, about the size of a gum ball and have a very tough skin. When you bite into one, it is sweet, and has a thick pulpy mouth feel, with hard seeds imbedded in the pulp about the size and look of ticks.

So the seller is handing them to me through the car window, and I'm holding open a plastic bag for the little container, when some of them fell to the floorboard of the car. We picked up all we could find, but I had seen some of them fall into that no man's land between the car seats. You'd think it's be easy to see a muscadine. We looked, thinking we'd gotten them all.

Well, I began to notice a few days ago that when I opened my car door, I got a distinct smell of wineiness. Those lost muscadines inside that hot car had fermented and started to exude wine. I could picture being stopped by the cops for something, and rolling down the car window and having a wino smell hit him in the nose.

I looked with a flashlight as best I could to locate them and couldn't find 'em. I went to the Red Arrow car wash and had them use those big vacuums to find them and suck them up. They moved the car seats forward and backward along their tracks--sounds of "shloops" and "shlurps" with the vacuuming and they got everything out--just two muscadines had caused all that smell.

Next year, as an experiment, I'm gonna buy some muscadines and let them ferment in a jar and see if they'll make wine in a controlled environment. Bet it would be good!

susil

posted on Sept 26, 2010 8:06 AM ()

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How Funny, Sue.
comment by elderjane on Sept 29, 2010 6:28 PM ()
Oh no! A cop car in my rear view mirror makes me nervous--I've learned to brake and slow down when I see one hiding in the bushes down the road. Last time I did that, a cop shook his finger at me as I passed. I used to could cry my way out of a ticket when I was in uniform and prettier than I am now, but it doesn't work anymore, so I have to be gooder.
comment by susil on Sept 27, 2010 9:49 PM ()
One time I came steaming down the hill, way over the speed limit after putting some pokey tourists in my rear view mirror, and the sheriff's deputy gave me one of those admonishing finger shakes, but he was either waiting for more rewarding speeders or he understood why I had to get around them when I could.
reply by troutbend on Sept 28, 2010 9:11 AM ()
Scuppernongs, eh? What a shame you didn't get stopped. Then this post would have had that extra component -- you having to explain yourself to a pair of suspicious cops.
comment by tealstar on Sept 26, 2010 6:44 PM ()
Even talking about cops makes me so nervousthat I put your reply above
reply by susil on Sept 27, 2010 9:51 PM ()
In our car there might be the odd Cheeto in those parts, remnant of road trips. Now that thought makes me wish we'd had more road trips to remember.
comment by troutbend on Sept 26, 2010 10:07 AM ()
Besides the shloops and shlurps sounds, I heard change, a lost ballpoint pen and other clinks and god knows what else suctioned out through those big vacuums. They didn't try to save anything--it all got sucked out.
(Probably some Cheetos too--I love those things.)
reply by susil on Sept 27, 2010 9:44 PM ()
But Ossifer, I haven't had a drop.
comment by nittineedles on Sept 26, 2010 9:37 AM ()
Gee, they might not have believed I hadn't had a drop and made me take a breath test or something!
reply by susil on Sept 27, 2010 9:40 PM ()

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