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In life, you have to stand up for what you believe in. You’ve been given the right to protest and to exercise your freedom of speech. We were all born with inalienable rights that we’d be foolish to give up. So when I came across the headline “This Man Is Suing an Airline For Serving Him Sparkling Wine Instead of Champagne,” I nearly spit out my grass-fed butter coffee because the actions of this airline are – simply put – inexcusable.
Per Town & Country:
Daniel Macduff was traveling to Cuba on a Sunwing flight that advertised complimentary on-board champagne, the BBC reports. When Macduff boarded his flight, he didn’t receive the bubbly he expected. Instead, he got a cheaper sparkling wine. Horrified, he dialed his lawyer.
“It’s not about the pettiness of champagne versus sparkling wine,” said Macduff’s lawyer Sébastien Paquette. “It’s the consumer message behind it.”
The lawsuit adds that Sunwing’s marketing materials included references to Champagne, as in the real thing produced in the Champagne region of France (AKA our favorite type of bubbly with magical health benefits).
You know what? I get it. I get it.
If I go to a restaurant and order Belgian Platinum Baerii Sturgeon caviar and the waiter comes back with an inferior a California White Sturgeon? Uh, yeah, I’m going to be asking to speak to a manager. Sure, the peon intern who puts together those little brochures tucked into the airline seats? I bet his palate is trash and he was just trying to steal some credit hours by subbing “champagne” for “prosecco” or “sparkling wine.” I bet he wouldn’t know the difference between a Wagyu steak tartare and a pile of ground chuck. Embarrassing.
Thankfully, 1,600 other wronged individuals have piled onto this class action lawsuit as well. I’ve never even heard of “Sunwing Airlines” but I may try to insert myself in there as well just because I’d rather die standing up for what I believe in than live my entire life on my knees drinking sparkling wine from inland California rather than France.
Do you want to live in a world where you’re served New York Hog Creek oysters instead of Lady Chatterleys from Prince Edward Island? Where companies try to sell you 100 percent cashmere when it’s actually a blend? Where every scented candle is a Yankee rather than a hand-poured Diptyque or Cire Trudon? I want to throw up just thinking about it.
Never sacrifice your taste for the benefit of others. Your aesthetic is too important and you can literally feel people pointing and laughing when they see your Instagram story filled with off-color bubbly that’s clearly not Veuve. .
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Will
Will (Twitter / Instagram) is the host of The Sunday Scaries Podcast.
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I’ll be number 1 to join that class action
I saw this article and thought “I get it” too. I need this guy to win this case.
I really hope this guy wins the case so I can go after some brunch places that have been ripping me off. According to Merriam-Webster, a mimosa consists of champagne and orange juice.
I once overhead a bartender tell another (apparently new) bartender to make the mimosas 3/4 champagne because the booze they use is cheaper than the oj. Alcoholic me wasn’t upset.
1/4th OJ is still a lot of OJ. The orange juice is there for color only.
Since the US didn’t ratify the Treat of Versailles but instead signed a separate peace agreement with Germany the US was able to produce champagne even though it’s not from the Champagne region in France. Recently the US reached an agreement with France but several wineries were allowed to keep labeling their sparkling wine as champagne.
I want to believe this is sarcasm but with Will being the author, I’m really not so sure.
I bet in the Venn diagram of “people in this class-action suit” and “people who have had real champagne from France” there is no overlap on the two circles.
Can confirm.
As a resident of Prince Edward Island, thank you for supporting our Oysters, they are world class
as i’ve always said, pei or gtfo
I think denouncing the airline on social media is more appropriate than suing over the discrepancy in sparkling vine origin. You can get actual Champagne for like 30 bucks (definitely not the best bottles of course), so it’s not as if they screwed him out of hundreds of dollars.
It’s the principle of the thing!
Some pro bono hours would be a good look around the office and if there was ever a cause worth dedicating those to, this is it.
This is unreal
I’m ok with this. The wine and champagne on my airplanes are terrible.