A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from May 28, 2023
“Life is too short to drink the house wine”

House wine is an inexpensive drinking wine served in restaurants.
 
“Life’s too short to drink the house wine” was posted on the newsgroup alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united.scum-haters on October 18, 2000. “Life’s too short to drink the house wine” (said by Lady Loretta Parisi at the first annual brunch of the Red Hat Society of Greater Hartford) was printed in the Hartford (CT) Courant on June 16, 2002. “Life is too short to drink the house wine.—Helen Thomas” was printed in the Teche News (St. Martinville, LA) on August 7, 2002. American reporter and author Helen Thomas (1920-2013) is often credited with the saying, but it’s uncertain when she first said it.
   
“Life is too short to drink cheap wine” is a related saying. “House wine should be on the house” and “The best house wine is on the house” are other house wine sayings.
   
   
Wikipedia: House wine
House wine generally refers to an inexpensive drinking wine served in restaurants. Restaurant menus often omit detailed descriptions of a house wine’s country of origin, winery or grape varietal, listing it simply as “house red” or “house white”, depending on the wine’s style. Some restaurants offer more specific categories of house wines, such as a “house chardonnay”, or a “house merlot”.
     
Google Groups: alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united.scum-haters
Who is the fastest over 100m ?
M&M
Oct 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM
(...)
Life’s too short to drink the house wine
       
Newspapers.com
16 June 2002, Hartford (CT) Courant, “Rituals” by Shana Sureck, pg. H3, col. 1:
“Life’s too short to drink the house wine.”
(Lady Loretta Parisi at the first annual brunch of the Red Hat Society of Greater Hartford.—ed.)
 
Newspapers.com
7 August 2002, Teche News (St. Martinville, LA), pg. 4, col. 4:
Clair comme le jour: Life is too short to drink the house wine.—Helen Thomas
 
Gogole Groups: rec.scuba
tipping the dive instructor
Capt Jim Wyatt
Apr 26, 2003, 7:45:35 AM
(...)
Life is too short to drink the “House Wine”.
 
Twitter
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@unmarketing
RT @BigLeagueWIFFLE:
@unmarketing Goodmorning Life is too short to drink the house wine
7:17 AM · Apr 9, 2010
     
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Life is too short to drink the house wine- Helen Thomas #truth
3:15 PM · Feb 25, 2013
 
Google Groups: alt.quotations
76 quotes about alcohol
Kevin G. Barkes
May 1, 2014, 12:19:04 AM
(...)
Life is too short to drink the house wine.
-Helen Thomas
     
Twitter
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“Life’s too short to drink the house wine” yesss Rosie
11:21 PM · Oct 30, 2017
   
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LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO DRINK THE HOUSE WINE - ROSIE PEREZ
1:05 AM · Oct 31, 2017 from Manhattan, NY
   
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“Life’s too short to drink the house wine”
- Rosie Perez on Desus & Mero
11:09 PM · Nov 1, 2017
   
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“Life’s too short to drink the house wine.” - Rosie Perez’s rainbow #AuRevoirDesusAndMero
4:35 PM · Jun 29, 2018
 
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@KeoughTracie
Life is too short to drink the house wine!
9:55 AM · Apr 25, 2023

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