Keeping a scorecard on what foods are good for you, which are bad for you and which ones bounce back and forth between the 2 can make you feel like you’re watching a ping pong match close up. “Chocolate is good for you. No, wait. It’s bad.” or “Coffee may be good for you but it may not be.” Seems they can’t make up their minds on much of anything and there’s always some new study coming out.
One item on their list has been red wine. One glass a day is supposed to be good for you. My great grandfather used to make wine in his basement and, from what I hear, enjoyed drinking it quite a lot. He lived to be 74. Ditto for Frank’s grandfather with the wine in the basement & he was 86 when he died. Seems to me there’s something to be said in favor of drinking the vino. Apparently there is a spa where they carry that one step further.
In Manhattan, there’s this spa, Delluva. Not only do they think drinking wine is good for you. They believe it’s also good on the outside of you. They have wine barrel soaks, all sorts of treatments that all involve grapes – grape seed scrubs, grape seed oil.
On the news tonight, they showed someone getting a massage with that stuff. All I could think of was, “Gee, I wonder if they let them take a shower, afterwards.” Sure looked kind of messy to me.
It’s supposed to make you younger looking. Now I’m wondering. You know those stories of people stomping grapes with their feet (like in that I Love Lucy episode)? Does that mean they all had very young looking legs & feet? If they had known about the whole ‘grape fountain of youth’ stuff, would they have crushed the grapes with their faces instead?
Chances are, if I was the one who was supposed to crush the grapes with my face, I would never find out if they would make me look more useful. Because, they would never make it past my mouth. Because I love grapes, in all their forms, and I would be eating them before they could be crushed. Being bathed in grapeseed oil and dunked in wine, though? Well, I’m just not sure about that!