steffan ziegler (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} saint_monkey) wrote,@ 2008-07-14 18:39:00 |
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For the first time ever, Belgians buy Budweiser. Oddly, they bought ALL of it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/750
Belgian beer giant Inbev is buying out America's biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch. They say that the move won't close any breweries in the US and that Budweiser, the most popular beer made by Busch, will not be effected by the change.
I for one think that this is an outrage. Inbev must reconsider! I mean, have you ever tasted a Budweiser? It's a full frontal assault on the very concept of beer. It tastes terrible, and it has no alcohol content. It makes pbr taste like champagne by comparison. I've always thought that Bud's unoffical slogan was "If you want a beer real bad, we've got a real bad beer."
The news here played it for all it was worth. They headed out at noon to find the hardened Bud junkies in the local dives to give the obligatory anti-merger soundbyte.
Outrage over this, makes no sense. The Belgians buying your beer is like the Japanese buying your sushi, or the Russians buying your vodka, or the Canadians buying your ... whatever they make really well in Canada.
Oh yeah, in other less important news, Bush signed an executive order reversing his father's executive order banning any new off-shore drilling in US territorial waters, and the New Yorker got all Fox News on Barack Obama for some strange reason.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/750
Belgian beer giant Inbev is buying out America's biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch. They say that the move won't close any breweries in the US and that Budweiser, the most popular beer made by Busch, will not be effected by the change.
I for one think that this is an outrage. Inbev must reconsider! I mean, have you ever tasted a Budweiser? It's a full frontal assault on the very concept of beer. It tastes terrible, and it has no alcohol content. It makes pbr taste like champagne by comparison. I've always thought that Bud's unoffical slogan was "If you want a beer real bad, we've got a real bad beer."
The news here played it for all it was worth. They headed out at noon to find the hardened Bud junkies in the local dives to give the obligatory anti-merger soundbyte.
Outrage over this, makes no sense. The Belgians buying your beer is like the Japanese buying your sushi, or the Russians buying your vodka, or the Canadians buying your ... whatever they make really well in Canada.
Oh yeah, in other less important news, Bush signed an executive order reversing his father's executive order banning any new off-shore drilling in US territorial waters, and the New Yorker got all Fox News on Barack Obama for some strange reason.
