If you've never drunk a glass of wine in your life, you will not make a fool of yourself by ordering a glass and drinking it as if it were any other beverage. There are no ceremonies that must be practiced. You lift the glass to your lips, drink some in, and swallow. Neither is it essential to match the wine to the food. Extremely spicy foods and high-alcohol wines accentuate each other's edges too much.
Artichokes make all wines taste metallic.
But you could even ignore all these guidelines and still not have a flavor in your mouth as bad as, say, the rancid fast food French fries you probably eat more often than you'd admit. So don't worry about the food-wine pairing thing. You'll find a lot of interesting possibilities if you decide to dig into it. But just because you don't want to buy a thousand-dollar Nikon doesn't mean you should hesitate to take snapshots with a disposable camera. Long books and millions of column inches in magazines have been written about which wines to buy, how to serve them, how to age wines, and all that.