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- From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
- Subject: Re: And just what the fuck do Canuks know about beer?
- References: <BxJDL9.9vI@cs.dal.ca> <BxK1u0.78q@nic.umass.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:29:59 GMT
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- In <BxrpIp.8pq@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
-
- >In article <5841@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (All of our
- represanatives are still busy; please continue to hold) writes:
- >>And where did you get this idea that Canadians know anything about beer?
- >>
- >>They live in a cold climate and can't brew a decent ale.
- >>
- >>They get hot in the summer and can't even make a decent lager to drink.
-
- > I beg to differ.
-
- > Most American beers are available up here for the same price as
- >Canadian beer, but the Canadian beer still outsells the American stuff.
-
- As if popularity had ANYTHING to do with quality...
-
- As
- >well, when my father was in New Orleans a few years back, a guy in a bar asked
- >him where he was from. When Dad said Halifax, the guy said, "Oh yeah - that's
- >where they make Moosehead," which was a very popular beer down there (or so
- >they guy told Dad).
-
- New Orleans has many fine qualities to recommend it, but its taste in
- beverages isn't one of them... any town that would ruin a perfectly good cup of
- coffee by putting chicory in it probably isn't the Beer Mecca of America, or
- the South, or even Louisiana.
-
- --
-
- Tom Dennis | I looked into the abyss,
- dennis@alexia.uiuc.edu | and the abyss looked into me--
- tadg0614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | and we both winked.
-