(March 2, 2024 at 12:18 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, there's a superstition in Argentina that mixing wine with watermelons will kill you somehow. Or maybe just give you tummy trouble.
But the thing that makes me really think about it:
1) Filmmaker Gaspar Noe was born in Argentina, but had to move for Dirty War-related reasons.
2) His film Climax hinges on an LSD-spiked Sangria making everybody go apeshit, killing a minimum of three people (four if you count the pregnant girl's fetus getting kicked to death).
3) Sangria is basically just wine mixed with fresh fruits (that may or may not include watermelon, but red-tinted lights notwithstanding, I suspect the one in this film might have had it.)
I think this detail might merit more investigation.
Since most sangrias are made with red wine, I think that would account for the colour.
I don’t think I’ve ever had sangria made with watermelon. Maybe that’s why I’m not dead.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson