On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:35:53PM -0400, Tom Wilson wrote: >On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:37, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:48:48AM -0400, Tom Wilson wrote: >> ... >> >So is that why beer is so expensive there? They have a Booze >> >Bureaucracy? I was in Kill Devil Hills in late June and paid $20 US for >> >a case of Miller Lite. I felt I was stroked. Now here in Ohio, we >> >drive to Kentucky and get Miller Lite for $12 a case. And Samuel >> >Smith's Oatmeal Stout is only $3.99 a pint. Mmmmm... >> >> I don't think you could sell Miller Lite, Bud Lite, Coors, etc. for any >> price in Oz, New Zealand, or other places where real beer, ale, and stout >> is available. The only thing people here in the Pacific NW would use >> Miller Lite for is slug bait. > >Agreed. I prefer fine English Ales myself. But I was on vacation with >the family so I had to please the, err, unenlightened beer drinkers.
I've found that even backwater bars usually have Guiness which is a good fallback. If they don't have Guiness, I drink ice tea rather than the unrecycled piss that passes for beer there. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Democracy must be sometihng more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner -- James Bovard _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
