If a waiter marks your date as a WW, you know you’re in for a special bottle of wine. The wine whales, as they’re called, take their name from the Vegas whale: those folks who play big at the tables, to the tune of hundreds of thousands or even millions. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Wine Whale”
Got a little bit of restaurant slang for you, Grant.
A WW?
Ooh, pfft.
What?
This water drinker?
I don’t know.
I don’t know.
No, just the opposite.
It’s a wine whale.
W-I-N-E.
Do you know what this is?
I do.
This is the person who will keep buying and buying and buying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or the guy who’s out to impress the gal, and so you know that he’s going to.
He’s going to buy the $100 bottle of wine.
Yeah, and apparently restaurants are now making this notation in their little records to serve their customers better.
And the whale part has something in common with whales in Vegas and other gambling spots.
A whale is somebody who spends a lot of money in these places.
Oh, no kidding.
A whale is the guy who gets comped the room and the car service and all that kind of stuff.
Huh.
Yeah, because they were spending a lot of dough.
Oh, I didn’t know that.
And here’s a question for you.
If swimming is such good exercise, how do you explain whales?
Think about it.
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