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[quote=Anonymous]The opinions on this thread are completely alien to me.

I travel extensively for work. I eat lots of formal dinners in fancy restaurants with C-level executives, all over the country (and the world). In the US, formal business dinners normally come with well-chosen wines. But many people order iced tea or a Diet Coke with dinner (as well as drinking wine, beer, or a cocktail). And certainly iced tea and soda (almost always Diet Coke, it seems) are ordered at formal business lunches at fancy restaurants, even when wine, beer, and/or cocktails are also in play.

Formal dinner parties, from considerate hosts, generally involve "know your friends' tastes and choose beverages accordingly". That means, for instance, that most people in my circle of friends have Diet Coke and Coke Zero on hand and yes, they are drunk at formal dinners because many of us don't drink, even when there are wine pairings. There's usually a flavor or two of sparkling water on offering. Regular water can be gotten from a fridge dispenser. Some of us keep some folks' favorite beers at hand. And iced tea is often made for folks who want some. Maybe that makes us all (UMC college-educated professionals) unconsciously ghetto or something.

The snobbery on DCUM never ceases to amaze me.[/quote]

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