FoxTrot by Bill Amend for April 25, 2021

The stuff worked better as drain-o than a beverage.

toss your “clos du Roger” away, Roger; it’s bound to be still undrinkable if it’s eating through the glass

Oh wow, that’s one heck of a call back.

Ah, yes, the wine Jason coerced Roger into making as repercussions towards Andy for not being allowed to play Diablo II.

The wine that tastes like heck

In college, my roommates and I made alcoholic cider, once. Turns out the trick is to forget you bought non-alcoholic cider until you clean up the room months later.

Its starting to eat threw the glass… Someone call 911 and request a hazmat team!

I remember the arc where he first made that stuff!

How good is your insurance?

It might be good for snakebites only.

Today’s classic Sunday strip we’re missing:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1999/08/22

Ah, memories

Look on the bright side Andy. That stuff did make pretty good drain cleaner, if I recall.

This sounds like my home made root beer, that used to explode the bottles. I gave it up when one exploded in my hand.

Wine that turns into hydroflouric acid isn’t reckoned to be too tasty in most circles.

Good wine improves with age…

I was into home brewing for a spell. Made a lot of good beer. A couple of batches, though, tasted like anti freeze. That’s when I learned about “fusils” and making sure it fermented in a temperature controlled place!

I thought it was a clever name, but according to google, “Clos Du Roger” translates to “closed from.”

Imagine what it will do to your stomach.

I think only “aqua regia” can do that.

Well…it definitely got more potent, at least. Don’t think that helped with the taste any, though.

Homemade drain cleaner?

Here, hold my beer. I’ll give it a try.

I used to help my next-door-neighbor & his family make wine every year (last time we put up 974 bottles). We would, of course, drink it while bottling, and it was great; open a bottle and not so much……..

Might make a good industrial solvent…..

Not every day we get a callback to an earlier strip.

My Brother-In-Law was a big NASCAR fan and he had some 6 packs of soda with drivers pictures on them unopen. He notice that one or two cans started to leak. He wrote the company and they said that the soda was eating it’s way through the can. They told him the only way to fix it was to drink it.

The only thing I know of that eats through glass is hydrofluoric acid. It has to be stored in certain types of plastic containers.

Sounds like a pretentious little wine, with notes of melting teeth.

I had a landlord years ago who would leave us bottles of his homemade wine. I swear you could have stripped paint with the stuff, it was vile.

My dad made wine in the basement. It smelled just like Balsamic vinegar. I never tasted it.

Reminds me of that old song “Ten Little Bottles”( of some stuff I made myself.)

The truth of the matter is that not all wines improve indefinitely, in fact most kinds don’t.

Clos du Roger: legs so strong, no bottle can contain it.

I’m guessing that Roger’s next pet project will be making his own vinegar out of old Clos du Roger.

Sounds like one of my concoctions.

Nope, no thank you, not interested, get out of here

Love your name!

Chateau d’Industrial Waste

I just realized they have some huge ears!

Apparently the name MD 20/20 was already taken.

Roger just has to find the right distribution channel for his wine: https://youtu.be/Inq4kPFdosI?t=369

Time to trash.

oh it’s ripe

I wonder how much in-universe time has passed?

My parents used to make homemade wine from winemaking kits. It was pretty good. Then my dad started growing his own grapes. Note: we live in Minnesota, and this was before the introduction of Frontenac, so the varieties were . . . somewhat limited. Our suburban terroir may have been a bit dubious as well, although the grapes were certainly tasty to eat. I helped my dad make a very small run of three and a half bottles from what we harvested that first year. Later, he and I opened the first bottle. I have a very clear memory of the two of us standing in the kitchen. He poured us each a small glass. We each swirled it, sniffed it, then took a sip, and then, without saying a single word, simultaneously poured the rest down the sink.

It was hilariously awful. ;-)

Andy’s gonna whine at this wine time.

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2000/08/14: This is the start of the arc just in case anyone was wondering.

HUNDRETH COMMENT!!!

I can see it. I got a bunch of special, colored, commemorative sodas for a college championship when I was a kid, and saved one six-pack of the cans, never drank them. Twenty years later, it ate through the aluminum and leaked all over the place.

My Dad made wine and we’ll…. we used it as wine vinegar, but, one bottle was forgotten at the back of pantry… when he opened it had matured to very good wine.

My Dad made wine and well…. we used it as wine vinegar, but, …one bottle was forgotten at the back of pantry… when he opened it had matured to very good wine.

I remember that