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Subject: Re: "slipper" champagne flute
From: boozehound
Posted: Sun Dec 7. 2003, 04:14 UTC
Followup to: ""slipper" champagne flute"  by Helpless  (Sat Dec 6. 2003, 16:05 UTC)
> Hello.
> 
> My brother, a wonderful but hard-to-buy-for bartender, has put out 
> his christmas list. One item is: "champagne flutes, preferably the 
> old slipper-style".
> 
> What on earth??? Is this professional jargon? Can anyone describe 
> and/or provide a retailer?

there was a decent chunk of time (no time to look it up at present) where it 
was fashionable to serve champagne in "glass slippers" 

if i recall it comes from the folk tradition of drinking out of a shoe at a 
wedding, and was marketed as a wedding item....  there's one on ebay at 
present 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3162687500&category=2726

i've never actually held one, but from what i understand they're up there with 
champagne roses (or boquets, think baseless champagne flutes) in terms of nice 
for a toast and throughily useless to actually drink more than a little from.  
nice collectors item though.  if you're shopping for me too, i'm partial to 
old shakers ;)


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