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Geeze, sounds like a return to feudalism, which is only a step away from slavery again?
Humans slept outdoors for millions of years, and what actually is a little odd is people thinking they can own land they did not create, and keep others off?
End of an era as Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous, pours its last
The iconic lager has quenched the thirst of American beer drinkers for 177 years.Shiftless2
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The "Schlitz is the shits" phrase is a long-running, scatological parody of the brand's famous 1970s advertising campaign. It plays on the beer's infamous legacy of causing severe digestive issues for drinkers to mock its historic reputation. Seems that in order to cut cost the manufacturer had changed the formulation and the "new" product wasn't kind to people's intestinal tract.
And who can forget these ads?
Of course that led to an absolutely brilliant counter-ad for a somewhat obscure Texas beer named Longhorn
Cowboy saunters on screen and says "Yup. When you're out Schlitz you're out of beer. That's because you drank all the Longhorn first."
See that commercial once and everytime you see a Schlitz commercial you'll think of Longhorn - free advertisement.
And who can forget these ads?
Of course that led to an absolutely brilliant counter-ad for a somewhat obscure Texas beer named Longhorn
Cowboy saunters on screen and says "Yup. When you're out Schlitz you're out of beer. That's because you drank all the Longhorn first."
See that commercial once and everytime you see a Schlitz commercial you'll think of Longhorn - free advertisement.
Our school biology class did annual tours of the Schlitz labs in their bottling plant on 3rd St.
It was a huge complex covering several blocks.
The area went down hill and became a Black area from people moving up from the South in the 60s.
But I understand it now has been gentrified, and the old Schlitz building are expensive condos.
Milwaukee produced Schlitz, Pabst, Blatz, and Miller.
The only alternatives were Coors from Colorado and Budweiser from St. Louis.
Neither of which were very good in my opinion.
Yeah.
In New York's Southern tier we had Rheingold, sold in wide-mouth bottles. Not exotic, but adequate.
I drank Rolling Rock until Three Mile Island.
In Minnesota Hamm's was fine.
But here in central New York there's a bargain brand called Old Milwaukee. They under-price the competition, and as a result what's on the shelf is usually fresh.
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The branch of chemistry that deals with fermentation processes, as in brewing.
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Old Milwaukee is a branch of Pabst.
But I had forgotten about Hamm's.
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Theodore Hamm's Brewing Company was an American brewing company established in 1865 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Becoming the fifth largest brewery in the United States, Hamm's expanded with additional breweries that were acquired in other cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and Baltimore....}
I'd never heard of it.
We just went back to Minnesoooota to bury gramma.
Wouldn't have taken us so long, but she put up quite a struggle.
{...
DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun From the land of sky blue waters (waters), From the land of pines, lofty balsams, Comes the beer refreshing, Hamm's, the beer refreshing. DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun Brewed where nature works her wonders, Aged for many moons, gently mellowed, Hamm's the beer refreshing, Hamm's the beer refreshing. Hamm's. |
Lyrics to the Hamm's Beer Advertising Song
as reconstructed by Jeffrey Sward
Attributed to Ernie Garven (1914 - 2004)
Campbell-Mithun Advertising Agency (1952)
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