• BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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    Did an AI edit the image? Why is Jimmy fallon there, why is Fry there? What do they have to do with beer or the Monty Python joke. I’m so confused

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      I took it as Fry is drinking non American beer, because American beer tastes like water.

      But really, outside of a couple large national beer chains that sell their low cost “bud, coors, Busch, natty” America has a shit ton of small breweries that make a large variety of beers that aren’t that way. There’s literally over 9,000 operating breweries in the US.

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    When I used to teach European students, they would invariably go out and buy the cheapest crap they could find like cases of pabst genuine draft and then complain how bad the American beer is.

    I think the British equivalent would be if I bought a bottle of frosty jack and used it to declare all British cider to be shitty.

    You gotta spend some money to get good American beer. Pretty much all the nationally brewed stuff is shit. There’s a lot of local stuff that’s actually good.

    I’m not sure how European beer culture works, but one of the reasons to drink shitty American beer water is that you can drink it all day without dying.

    One more useless fact: I long thought that adjuncts in shitty American beer like corn and rice were strictly cost cutting measures. There’s definitely some truth to that. But the origins apparently go back to nineteenth century brewers being unable to achieve a clear lager with the barley that was available in America. When they used the barley exclusively, they kept getting a cloudy product.

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      At least where I’m from (Portland), it’s really not hard to find good beers, ciders, and so on. There are food carts that have 20 beers on tap and an extra collection of bottled/canned options.

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        You’ve definitely got no shortage of choices out there.

        I was up in the other Portland last week (Maine) and they’ve also got a ton of good options.

        That city name must inspire people or something.

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    Has anyone here ever had sex in a canoe? I can only imagine the logistics of laying down enough life preservers to make it comfortable, and any sidewards motions should be right out unless you want to turn this into skinny dipping. I guess you could use the momentum to your advantage to get some good thrusts in, but really, has the bottom of a canoe ever smelled sexy?

    Just something to think about.

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    America has some of the best beer on Earth. Europeans really show their cultural naivete and prejudice when they say stuff like this. I used be feel mad, now I just pity them.

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      Pilsen urqell is fucking close to water as well. But so its carlsberg, Heineken, and all the other generic/same beers

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    Was the first joke on a Monty Python live show that I saw on VHS a hundred million years ago. That might have been the only joke before we stopped.