The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIII
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So, collectively, Budweiser doesn't have over 60% of the market.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Those may be the best selling, but that doesn't mean they are any good.
I personally don't drink anything alcoholic and never have, but from former roommates who did I learned that those who want a decent American beer are supposed to go with something like Yuengling, Samuel Adams, or or SweetWater.
I personally don't drink anything alcoholic and never have, but from former roommates who did I learned that those who want a decent American beer are supposed to go with something like Yuengling, Samuel Adams, or or SweetWater.
I don't, and I don't say it's good. Beer as a general rule sucks. You want a good drink? Drink black label jim beam, okay? MY point was that just because you guys don't like those low cost drinks doesn't mean you can go around denying they -are- the best selling beers, and therefore most popular, beers in America.
You're arguing against a position nobody's adopted. Nobody's said that Budweiser is not an American beer, or that it's not the best-selling beer in America. What was said is that Budweiser is not the only kind of beer in America, it is not the majority beer in America, it is not the best beer in America, and it is not the best low-cost beer in America.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
American micro-brewing is really only just now (in the last 5 or 10 years) recovering from Prohibition. The big megabreweries are still dominant, but their share of the market is its smallest ever. The trend is only growing, and for the first time in nearly a century, Americans can boast that they produce and consume very good domestic beer.
It was your claim I was arguing against. It -is- synonymous with American beer. You may not like it, but there you go.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
As usual we have people who live in cold climates mocking essentially flavourless and tasteless beers.
They have their place.
They have their place.
sophie
Break My Heart
Hi, yeah, um. Don't live in a cold climate here. Drinking Budweiser is almost as bad as drinking Smirnoff Ice. Almost.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Claiming that Budweiser is synonymous with American beer would mean denying that beers from better brewers can qualify as American too.
Budweiser being a kind of American beer (which by some definitions it is not, as the company is an international corporation with apparently more foreign than domestic shareholders) that not make it a synonym for American beer.
Whether "liberal" was ever pejorative depended highly on the audience. With a smaller percentage of the population identifying as conservative it probably does not have quite the same stigma overall, but does in some circles. It is becoming a bit more common to use the term progressive instead, which is of course a much more logical contrast to conservative. Some of us, of course, have long recognized that the typical American usages of political terms are rather stupid. The term liberal is probably being repaired more by those claiming to be classical liberals.
Budweiser being a kind of American beer (which by some definitions it is not, as the company is an international corporation with apparently more foreign than domestic shareholders) that not make it a synonym for American beer.
Whether "liberal" was ever pejorative depended highly on the audience. With a smaller percentage of the population identifying as conservative it probably does not have quite the same stigma overall, but does in some circles. It is becoming a bit more common to use the term progressive instead, which is of course a much more logical contrast to conservative. Some of us, of course, have long recognized that the typical American usages of political terms are rather stupid. The term liberal is probably being repaired more by those claiming to be classical liberals.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
@Owen..........Fair enough. My overall point is that if it`s stinking hot and maybe you`ve been playing sport or something and a Bud is served icy cold to the point whereby it can barely be tasted, then it`s entirely suitable, in fact preferable.
Under those conditions I`d have me a Bud ahead of a large number of beers that under other circumstances I would clearly prefer.
Under those conditions I`d have me a Bud ahead of a large number of beers that under other circumstances I would clearly prefer.
sophie
Break My Heart
That's what Ice cold Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is for. Or Torpedo. Or Anchor Steam. Or Red Tail Ale.
Hell even Corona is preferable to Bud.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Progressive is a rhetorical term. Nothing more.
So you think that Budweiser is the only kind of American beer?
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
The same could be said of almost all political labels are these days.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Except for the earnest ones.
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