Eco Confessions: Green Moms Carnival
This month’s Green Moms Carnival topic of eco confessions wasn’t too much of a struggle for ol’ Needle. I could write enormous volumes on the ungreeness that lurks in my home & life in general. Some things aren’t the greenest because I don’t know how to find a better solution but am working on them…like some cleaning projects. Some things are due to the needs/wants of other members of the family…like my husband’s insistence on Total toothpaste. Some are due to lack of resources…like a lawn to grow my own food. The list goes on.
But some… I just gotta own.
Hi. My name is Needle and I am a French wine & cheese whore. Now don’t get me wrong…I am not quite a lush…yet. (A few more rainy days trapped in the house with my brood and we will see what happens.) But if I am going to drink wine…it needs to not taste like Kool-Aid. And if I’m going to indulge in the fat and calories of cheese, it damn well ain’t gonna be for Velveeta. I can’t really put a green spin on any of it. Many resources are involved in its creation, packaging and travel. I could find similar products more locally; Americans make wine & cheese too…but…well…it just isn’t the same. And no one has yet to die from brie or Sancerre withdrawal…that we know of. So…no excuse…just pure selfishness…delicious…. delicious selfishness.
Perhaps being a vegan, tea-totaling, locovore would, in fact, be much greener…but so would being dead. And perhaps there is some sort of Dante’s Infernoesq punitive afterlife for lack of greenness. I’ll take my chances… fully accepting that my personal hell will be filled with nothing but cans of Cheez Whiz and Fetzer chardoney.
We all have our vices! Mine is far less elegant than yours…coca-cola, preferably a fountain coke! Like you said, “being a vegan, tee-totaling, locovore would be greener…but so would being dead.” Here’s to like and our un-eco-vices. Cheers!
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I eat a lot of Italian cheese! I LOVE cheese. Not really a wine drinker though.
I think we all have our own food vices. I bet we could have done a whole carnival just on food confessions lol.
Oh, wine and cheese are problems around here too. Although I do attempt to buy only local wines, which isn’t too hard, there aren’t too many local cheeses of the kind we eat.
You can only eat so much local goat cheese. Cave aged gruyere and triple cream brie is a little more hard to come by.
Love love love wine and cheese. Drink way too much organic wine (in glass bottle with natural cork stopper and tin capsule). Cheese is another story. Since it all comes packaged in plastic, I don’t buy it to have at home. But I do confess to a “don’t ask;don’t tell” policy in restaurants, at parties, and passing the sample trays at Whole Foods or Market Hall.