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Now that it is picnic season, I will soon have the opportunity to make use of some funny little items that I dragged home with me from Italy. The Acciaris introduced us to the existence of wine in little individual-serving boxes. These look just like our juice boxes, and I was so charmed that I bought quite a bunch to bring home. While I was dragging my bags through the airport and in and out of trains across the Eastern seaboard, I was pretty sure I was completely insane to have made them so heavy with something so far from gourmet.
Now, however, I am feeling just as clever as I had hoped: The wine inside is perfectly drinkable (though not, of course, in any way excellent). They cost me only €1.25 for a pack of three. Best of all, for the very reason that we are not supposed to drink alcohol in public places here, no one would ever bother to make juice boxes filled with wine, which means that I can drink them in public, because no one who would care would recognize them for what they are! It will all be very exciting and illicit, in the tamest possible way.
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