You don't have to drink beer to understand it, even the part about "who owns a beer distributorship." Owning a beer distributorship means lotsa income, because lotsa people drink lotsa beer.
Do you know how most American beer is similar to a boat? Both are very close to water.
Anchor Steam, Sierra Nevada, Mendocino, Rogue, Gordon Biersch, even Sam Adams - we've got an ocean outside the door and a brewery right in town and I don't even know anybody who drinks Bud or the watery stuff unless it's a watery import like Corona or Heineken. :-) Is it a Mid-West thing?
In some ways, it's a parochial thing and in other ways, it's a cheap thing.
I spent 26 years in the St. Louis area, where Annheuser-Busch products are everywhere. Busch is really cheap, and the fact that it's beer and it's cheap rules the day for some. Budweiser is called the "King of Beers", but that doesn't make it good.
Here in Oklahoma, the only thing that's available and fairly good are the better varieties of Guinness, and they're available only in "liquor stores". Our laws are damned silly, methinks. Any beer stronger than 3.2 must be sold in a "liquor store", where nothing can be refrigerated, and the laws and regs governing distributors are so irritating that brewers such as New Belgium Brewing won't even consider distributing here.
I drink beer very seldom, and when I do, I drink very little (really, 12 oz. is more than I want). But I enjoy the taste of really good beer (think of Germany here), so I grab a small stock of Fat Tire any time I go out of state where it's available.
I hardly ever drink at all. I've had someone tell me I am probably mildly allergic to ethanol, as nearly anything will give me a hangover headache faster than it will give me a buzz. Therefore, if I'm gonna drink something with alcohol in it, it'll damn well be something I LIKE the flavor of, and expense be damned.
For beers, that means Sam Adams, Franciskaner Weissbier, Spaten Oktoberfest. There are probably others, but as I said, I haven't drunk enough beer to *find* much that I like. I like the flavor of Guinness, but something in it gives me a screaming headache almost immediately. One swallow was enough to convince me.
Wow! Beer-laws like Oklahoma has need a total, National re-call. If somebody just ran on that issue alone they could beat Barak or Hillary easily, uniting Americans instead of dividing them.
Oklahoma seems to have never really repealed Prohibition, but just made a few loopholes. OTOH, I spent six years at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. Deaf Smith county in Texas was just east of us, and Prohibition was still in full effect there. (To the general effect that if you knew the ropes, you could buy liquor on Sunday [an old down-South joke], and that the sheriff's department seemed to support itself off of fines on airman that didn't know the ropes.)
"Oklahoma seems to have never really repealed Prohibition, but just made a few loopholes."
That's a fair statement. Oklahoma finally made "liquor by the drink" legal in bars and restaurants in September of 1984, but it was by popular vote on a county-by-county basis, and even today, about half the counties in the state are dry.
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You don't have to drink beer to understand it, even the part about "who owns a beer distributorship." Owning a beer distributorship means lotsa income, because lotsa people drink lotsa beer.
Do you know how most American beer is similar to a boat? Both are very close to water.
DJ,granted, but it's Aye better than no beer at all.
Works for me, guess I am going with the tea drinker. oh, not in the race, maybe I won't vote - it doesn't matter does it?
DJ,
That's the clean version of the joke :-)
Mastiff:
I know it's the clean version. I've forwarded the better version lotsa times.
Randy:
Verily methinks thou dost not live in Oklahoma, wherein the sacred Blue Laws so favored by the righteous are still a plague o'er the land.
Oh, for a cold Fat Tire again ...
"Do you know how most American beer is similar to a boat? Both are very close to water."
I believe the joke goes,
"What do American beer and sex have in common? Both are fucking close to water."
Um, that's, "What do American beer and sex in a boat have in common?"
Um, that's, "What do American beer and sex in a boat have in common?"
Oh, suuuure: correct my correction, will ya?
I forgot that part. Oops.
Anchor Steam, Sierra Nevada, Mendocino, Rogue, Gordon Biersch, even Sam Adams - we've got an ocean outside the door and a brewery right in town and I don't even know anybody who drinks Bud or the watery stuff unless it's a watery import like Corona or Heineken. :-) Is it a Mid-West thing?
"Is it a Mid-West thing?"
In some ways, it's a parochial thing and in other ways, it's a cheap thing.
I spent 26 years in the St. Louis area, where Annheuser-Busch products are everywhere. Busch is really cheap, and the fact that it's beer and it's cheap rules the day for some. Budweiser is called the "King of Beers", but that doesn't make it good.
Here in Oklahoma, the only thing that's available and fairly good are the better varieties of Guinness, and they're available only in "liquor stores". Our laws are damned silly, methinks. Any beer stronger than 3.2 must be sold in a "liquor store", where nothing can be refrigerated, and the laws and regs governing distributors are so irritating that brewers such as New Belgium Brewing won't even consider distributing here.
I drink beer very seldom, and when I do, I drink very little (really, 12 oz. is more than I want). But I enjoy the taste of really good beer (think of Germany here), so I grab a small stock of Fat Tire any time I go out of state where it's available.
I hardly ever drink at all. I've had someone tell me I am probably mildly allergic to ethanol, as nearly anything will give me a hangover headache faster than it will give me a buzz. Therefore, if I'm gonna drink something with alcohol in it, it'll damn well be something I LIKE the flavor of, and expense be damned.
For beers, that means Sam Adams, Franciskaner Weissbier, Spaten Oktoberfest. There are probably others, but as I said, I haven't drunk enough beer to *find* much that I like. I like the flavor of Guinness, but something in it gives me a screaming headache almost immediately. One swallow was enough to convince me.
Wow! Beer-laws like Oklahoma has need a total, National re-call. If somebody just ran on that issue alone they could beat Barak or Hillary easily, uniting Americans instead of dividing them.
It's moot here. This be a 'publican state, through and through. If I'm not mistaken, Oklahoma was the only completely red state in the 2004 election.
Oklahoma seems to have never really repealed Prohibition, but just made a few loopholes. OTOH, I spent six years at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. Deaf Smith county in Texas was just east of us, and Prohibition was still in full effect there. (To the general effect that if you knew the ropes, you could buy liquor on Sunday [an old down-South joke], and that the sheriff's department seemed to support itself off of fines on airman that didn't know the ropes.)
"Oklahoma seems to have never really repealed Prohibition, but just made a few loopholes."
That's a fair statement. Oklahoma finally made "liquor by the drink" legal in bars and restaurants in September of 1984, but it was by popular vote on a county-by-county basis, and even today, about half the counties in the state are dry.
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