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Expensive Glass of Crap

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Expensive Glass of Crap	comment	Okay, so Wine Is Classy. The classiest of wine drinkers can tell you the difference between the wine of 1993 and 1995 from their favorite vineyard. And then this jokester shows up. He presents a bottle of bum wine from the corner store as a fancy wine much more expensive than it actually is. And the drinkers never catch on, enjoying the cheap wine (and probably exercising their powers of Sommelier Speak). In subversions, the drinker catches on, or in extreme cases is harmed by the substitute. This can affect any commodity that is perceived to be mainly appreciated by snobs, not just wine. The object has to be presented as a quality brand but doesn't have to be a real brand. (Note: This does not cover blind taste tests. Differences [or lack thereof] between brands goes in Brand Names Are Better.) For wine (or beer) that tastes really bad and is recognized as such, see A Tankard of Moose Urine.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_16712475	comment	In the episode of The Jetsons where Rosie first appears, George invites Mr. Spacely over for dinner at the last minute, and Rosie is able to turn leftovers into what looks like a very nice pot roast.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: The Victim of the Week is a wine critic; he's killed by a man who was bootlegging expensive wine, filling knockoff bottles with his cheaper wine. Played With in that most people couldn't taste the difference, something explicitly mentioned by the bootlegger. The wine critic, however, could, which was why he had to go.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: A non-wine example in "Grand Master." A delicacy know as fugu in Japan (vicious blowfish sushi) is being sold for $500/serving. However, the fish in question were raised in captivity and had their mouths sewn shut so they weren't dangerous at all. Danny says a serving is worth about 20 bucks. In "A Daze of Wine and Roaches," cheap wine was being passed off as expensive, though that wasn't ultimately why the vic was killed - it involved the killer trying to squash a bejeweled cockroach. In "The Real McCoy," one of titular speakeasy employees was cutting corners with counterfeit vodka. This particular instance was particularly dangerous because the vodka had methanol, not ethanol.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_2547d61f	comment	Played with in White Collar. In an early episode, Neal tells a story about how he and Kate had a very fancy bottle but not the wine to fill it, so they'd fill it with crap and pretend they were living the high life.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons In "Duffless", a tour of the Duff brewery reveals that Duff, Duff Dry, and Duff Lite all come from the same pipe. In "The Springfield Files", when Homer says he wants to try something special, Moe draws an umlaut on a Duff label and claims it's a Swedish beer. In "The Fabulous Faker Boy", Moe offers Homer a bottle of Duff Platinum, but the label falls off revealing it's actually Duff Swill.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_27b0262b	comment	In an episode of MythBusters, they test whether filtration is enough to make cheap rotgut taste like top-shelf vodka. It...isn't, but most of the team (including a certified taster) said the filtration improved the taste somewhat. (Kari played the trope the straightest, ranking the various filtrations more or less randomly, with the rotgut rated higher than the top-shelf. Jamie and the professional both rated the top-shelf above everything else. And for the record, the test was double-blind.)
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_2d5cd9f3	comment	Horse Feathers has a scene that takes place at a speakeasy and uses this trope to parody the quality of product one can expect from such an establishment. Chico gets an order for a quart of rye and a quart of rum and fills two different bottles from the same jug.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_44c3c186	comment	In A Northern Dragoness, Lord Darry goes to extreme lengths to get peacock meat for a feast he's throwing, even Elaena Targaryen mentions it's a luxury rarely afforded even at the royal table. Unfortunately, since the meat is so rare, the Darry cooks don't have the slightest idea of how to prepare it. Treating it like normal turkey, they wind up drying it into a sawdust-like consistency.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_468bebb0	comment	In a Discworld footnote in Hogfather, it's mentioned that some aristocrats operate under the delusion that labelling the types of expensive alcohol in their bottles backwards will fool servants into not drinking it. It dryly notes that the servants are rarely fooled, and assume with rather more justification that their masters won't notice if the bottles are then topped up with "eniru". A restaurant is mentioned to put "bicarbonate of soda in the white wine to make very expensive bubbles".
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: There is a sidequest where you must do a trade with an amateur sommelier who wants an expensive out of production wine. The player character finds an empty bottle of the wine in question and Hancock, the merchant you met previously, suggests replacing it with another wine as the client wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway, as he likely just wants it for bragging rights and so won't want to ruin the ability to brag of having it by actually drinking it. A string of flavor dialogue in the Gold Saucer has a bossy customer angrily order a waitress to bring their best wine. If you follow her back to the bar, you'll see her get her petty revenge as she asks the bartender for a glass of their "vilest piss".
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: One daily cooking quest in Dalaran involves a dwarf asking for a cheese and wine platter, and the player delivering it to him. Because this dwarf is not as cultured as he thinks he is, he ends up getting the remnants of several half-drunk wine glasses along with a hunk of Limburger cheese, all served on an old buckler serving as a platter...and he's none the wiser.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_50464a6a	comment	Gohan no Otomo has an inversion where an elderly spinster wants to prepare a meal for her old crush, who is finally returning to the country after years (if not decades) of absence, but didn't want to show how much effort she's put into the preparation, so she asks for expensive wine in a cheap-looking container to serve him. The vendor had a good laugh over this with another regular, who remarks that he'd have done the opposite.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_5661c326	comment	In The Quest for Karla the British Secret Service uses crystal decanters to serve cheap South African port to the CIA on the grounds that they wouldn't know the difference.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_59bd6028	comment	Robbaz rails against "fine wines" for being too dry during his mead-brewing escapades.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_6afbaeb5	comment	Played with in Sideways. Late in their winery tour, Miles and Jack visit a vineyard that Miles, the experienced connoisseur, derides as "a joke" (it's implied they make a mass-market product rather than a boutique small-batch wine). Upon tasting it, Miles goes into a spiel about everything they're doing wrong in their winemaking process, such as failing to de-stem the grapes. Jack, as usual, doesn't taste anything but "wine".
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_6c6852c5	comment	Yakuza: Kiwami: In one of Majima's crazy schemes to provoke Kiryu into fighting him, he poses as a bartender and offers him a couple glasses of what he claims are top-shelf whisky, and since Kiryu knows very little about alcohol he goes along with it. He then charges Kiryu a frankly extortionate amount for the drinks, forcing Kiryu to either pay through the nose or refuse and give Majima a reason to fight him (which is, of course, what Majima wanted all along). After beating Majima, he compliments Kiryu for being able to hold his liquor while fighting, then admits that what he served was really some cheap rotgut, and that he nearly lost it when Kiryu started throwing out "classy" descriptions like he knew what he was talking about.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_88701b75	comment	The official grounds the Grand Fenwick used to declare war against the US in The Mouse That Roared was that a California vineyard had started selling a wine called Pinot Grand Enwick, a play on the Duchy's primary export, a wine called Pinot Grand Fenwick.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_8954c942	comment	In one chapter of Golgo 13, a wine maker had been in the habit of selling lesser vintages in bottles labelled as being from notable years to customers who he deemed as unworthy of drinking France's finest wines. If the customer found out, he would weasel out of it by claiming that if the allegedly fine wine tasted the same as the lesser wine, it just meant that the customer didn't have the palate to tell the difference. Then one customer decided to test the vintner's trustworthiness by having his ostensibly first rate purchase be opened and tasted by world-renowned sommeliers in public. Knowing that this would result in his scam being exposed and the reputation of his winery being ruined for all time, the vintner hires Golgo to destroy the bottle before anyone can drink from it.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_8dfbdff2	comment	In Law & Order episode "Submission", the DA office discovers that a close friend of the Victim of the Week's husband was selling cheap new wine as if it was old expensive wine, and that the murder was actually done by the friend to keep her from revealing this fact.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_9a17c5fc	comment	In the Lupin III: Part II episode, "The Sleight Before Christmas", the gang steals a bottle of wine being given as a gift from France to the US President, that was originally supposed to be a gift from Napoleon to Empress Josephine. They swapped it out for a cheap bottle of wine. After the heist, Lupin and his crew watch the president enjoy the fake bottle of wine on TV, and laugh mockingly at his palate's inability to distinguish "quality". Then they open the real bottle, and realize that they've stolen a 200 year-old bottle of vinegar.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_9a67b688	comment	The culprit of one case from Case Closed turned out to be a sommelier who killed the owner of the restaurant he worked at before he could expose the sommelier as a fraud who'd been supplying the restaurant with cheap wine falsely labeled as expensive brands in exchange for kickbacks from the cheap wine companies.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_9d3237c8	comment	Examined in Adam Ruins Everything in explaining that Wine Snobs fake their discernment of wines. A White Wine dyed Red will have a different taste to the same wine un-dyed and a cheap wine said to be an expensive one will be better than the same wine labeled as is.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_a3496fb1	comment	Yakuza: Like a Dragon: In Nanba's first Bonding Event at the Survive Bar, he confesses that he once took advantage of a night where he was alone in the bar to "sample" a bottle of extremely rare high-end "Legend Malt" whiskey behind the counter. Then he overdid it and downed the whole bottle by mistake, so he went out and topped it up with some convenience store booze. He's now worried that the bartender will notice. The followup Event reveals that the bartender never had any genuine "Legend Malt" to begin with, and had been displaying an empty bottle filled with cheap booze to make the bar look classier, while counting on its price to scare off anyone from actually trying it. And on the off chance that someone who could afford it wanted a sip, he'd hit them with a phony sob story about how he's saving it in memory of a Lost Lenore ward them off. Knowing this, Nanba stops worrying about his mistake.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_a5549ed0	comment	Referred to in The Bible, the story of the wedding at Cana; It was the custom to switch out the good wine for inferior stuff once the guests were buzzed, but Jesus turns water into the good stuff and people can tell the difference.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_af42a07f	comment	In the Serenity comic "Wash Out", fancy-ish champagne is switched for cheap rotgut at Wash's eulogy. Justified in that Wash liked the rotgut better.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_bbe33e8a	comment	A variation in Northern Exposure, where Maurice, in one of his Jerkass moves, donates oxidised fine wine to a local charity auction. It turns around on him when Holling innocently buys the wine and invites Maurice to dinner, forcing him to drink it and pretend that it's good. He's called on it by Walter Kupfer, a gruff local trapper with an unexpected background as a Wall Street trader. In another episode, Shelly accidentally breaks a bottle of fine wine Maurice plans to serve the next day. Eve manages to create a replacement using cheap wine and household ingredients, explaining that as the wife of a master chef she has developed a skill in fooling discerning palates.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_bd0d2c55	comment	Attempted in Rumpole of the Bailey (Series 4, Episode 2, "Rumpole and the Blind Tasting"), where a wine merchant attempts insurance fraud by putting cheap plonk into empty bottles of ChÃ¢teau Cheval Blanc (a real-life very expensive Bordeaux), then getting rid of the bottles in such a way that he could claim that the bottles were stolen and take a large insurance payout for the total loss of the wine. In order to cement his case, the merchant held a blind tasting and pushed a Times wine correspondent to identify the horrible plonk as the ChÃ¢teau Cheval Blanc. To cement the "theft", he places the bottles in the garage of a known South London fence. Unfortunately for the merchant, Rumpole was present at the tasting and recognized the plonk as his preferred tipple of "ChÃ¢teau Fleet Street", and the fence was a Timson—and the Timsons have Rumpole on (metaphorical) speed-dial...
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_c1a76652	comment	In Black Books, Manny and Bernard housesit for a friend and accidentally drink a ridiculously expensive and rare bottle of wine he was going to present as a gift to the pope. They concoct their own (mixing cheap wine with a rather Literal-Minded assortment of the things a guidebook says it should taste like) and put it in the bottle, reasoning that "all wine tastes the same". Their brew kills the pope and the friend is arrested for it.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_c73f511c	comment	Boardwalk Empire: The pilot episode shows the bootlegging operation of Mickey Doyle (and later Chalky White), who takes real liquor smuggled in from abroad, then dilutes it with various chemicals to stretch out their supply and fake the appearance (including counterfeit labels) of quality liquor. It doesn't really fool many people, but does cause the demand (and price) for genuine liquor to soar. The logistics of running this operation form an ongoing subplot throughout the entire series, with occasional focuses on the specific steps required to pull it off (e.g. making sure the fake labels you're producing for the new bottles are close enough to the originals to fool a casual glance).
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_cac1f772	comment	The original CSI also did this, incidentally in an episode that was a crossover with CSI: NY and somewhat similar to the episode described above. A wine collector got mad because cheap wine was put into bottles supposedly of a vintage worth thousands. The scammer ends up dead in a wine barrel.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_cc510e3f	comment	This has happened at least twice on Bar Rescue and itâ€™s another one of Jon Tafferâ€™s Berserk Button â€˜s, as well as one of his experts who rightfully show disgust whenever a bar owner feels they have to rip off their customers and â€œmarry their liquor bottlesâ€� as the process is called.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_d6778009	comment	Cabin Pressure Angry at a passenger for being rude to her, Carolyn Shappey swaps out the expensive wine that he requests she serve him with the same boxed crap that they serve everyone on the airline, justifying herself with the excuse that everyone's palate is shot at their altitude (Truth in Television; this is, in fact, "the deal with airline food"). In "Edinburgh", it eventually transpires that Douglas replaced Mr. Birling's very expensive single malt whisky with some cheap stuff called "McHamish's Tartan Reserve" ... and sort of inverted because he put the single malt in the Tartan Reserve bottle and Mr. Birling drank that as well. But by that point he was in no state to tell the difference.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_dd8198f3	comment	One episode of Las Vegas sees them find a collection of rare wine buried in the hotel for decades, valued at $30,000 a bottle. Ed Deline is ecstatic since he fancies himself something of a wine connoisseur, but once they crack open a bottle the actual connoisseur notes that it doesn't taste the right way. They eventually discover that the wine was genuine, but the construction crew they hired to excavate it swapped it out with modern stuff so they could sell it themselves.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_e6267766	comment	A Star Wars Legends novel Tales of the Bounty Hunters has Boba Fett pursuing war criminal Kardue'sai'malloc by virtue of tracking his orders of a particular whiskey-like alcohol called Merenzane Gold. Malloc is furious at this revelation because in all his years as a fugitive he only had one actual glass of Merenzane Gold. The rest were local crap, imitators that merely looked like Merenzane Gold (Or, as he explained, "were looked at hard by a man who heard of Merenzane!"). He's angrier that this is how Fett tracked him down than he is at the fact of being captured.
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Expensive Glass of Crap / int_f0a86c12	comment	In a flashback in How I Met Your Mother, Lily breaks an expensive bottle of Glen McKenna and replaces it by sticking the label on a cheap bottle of scotch. When Robin points out that the color and flavor isn't quite the same, they use ketchup, hot sauce, and hand sanitizer to match the original. Later, Ted sneaks a taste before bringing it to Barney, he can't tell the difference.
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