My pregnant wife bought herself the world’s smallest bottle of wine for new year’s eve.
But then she spotted this:
Prompting some ranting and raving from me. It’s awfully patronising. Every bit of pregnancy-related bumf we get goes on and on about how important it is to stop drinking. But we all know that the advice was only changed recently because the previous advice was being ignored. We’ll seek our own counsel, thanks. But I have no doubt that social services would love nothing more than to snatch the fetus from the womb and put it into “care”, if only they could.
Here is another wine bottle.
Good grief. We must recycle, keep Britain tidy, not drink if we’re pregnant and beware of sulphites, whatever they might be. But not to worry, this wine is carbon neutral.
Another bottle wants me to visit a website called drinkaware, where I’m told that alcohol will give me all kinds of diseases including cancer, and affect my mental health. Frankly, my mental health is more likely to be affected by all the constant nagging we’re subjected to.
So, how small is “The world’s smallest bottle of wine”, anyway?
I should have put something next to it for scale. It contains 18.7cl of wine. But I think these, via thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com, are smaller.
18.75cl is the usual airline size. Generous airlines use 25cl bottles, but they are in the minority.