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Often stopping in a tasting room, you'll hear the staff person at the tasting counter rattle off nonsense about a product's ribbons, medals and other accolades. I think to myself, "Of course, your grandmother's muscadine wine won double gold at the county fair!"

Magazines and newspapers list top ten winners that drive retail and restaurant staff insane with customers carrying clippings asking if you have any on the list. If you don't, you are looked at with suspicion and a pinch of disdain. After all, how could you be such a moron to not have at least one of the top 10?

Some companies exist for the main purpose of telling you what you should drink. The scenario usually goes something like this:
1. You send in a sample.
2. Samples are judged by a panel of experts.
3. Press releases and parties celebrate the winners.

Read more about the LeNell's take on wine and spirits awards, after the jump ...

So it's 5 o'clock EST. Did you make your last widget for the day? Answer the boss's last e-mail?

If "yes," read on. If "no," you've been warned. Because it's totally possible you'll lose the next 24 hours of your life to Endless Simmer's fantastically obsessive Top 10 Top 10 Food Lists.

Yeah, you read that correctly: For better or for worse, it's all there, from The Frisky's Top 10 Songs with Sexually Suggestive Food Metaphors (props for the Cibo Matto, guys -- but no Def Leppard?) to Lifehacker's genius Top 10 Food and Drink Hacks (we can open a beer bottle using a piece of paper?!). There's even a nod to the Creepiest Mascots and Bad Boy Bourdain's best takedowns.

These types of lists make all other tasks sort of disappear. So if we've just sent you hustling to iTunes to start typing out retorts to The Frisky or hunting for a sheet of 8 1/2-by-11 and a Negro Modelo, we apologize.

But not really.

[Via Endless Simmer]