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Ohio is a foreign country
By Ron Newman on Sat, 08/14/2010 - 9:18am
While visiting my family in Columbus, we went to an Italian restaurant. The menu lists Samuel Adams under the category 'IMPORTED BEERS'.
(Menu is here. Unfortunately I can't link directly to the Dinner->Beverages->2 page because it's all in Flash.)
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That is funny.
Especially since Sam Adams has its own brewery right in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Over the Rhine
Well, the Cincinnati brewery is in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Perhaps this restaurant confused it for Germany.
even weirder in Canada
Ron
In Canada its even weirder. Because of the lack of an interstate commerce clause in the Canadian Constitution if a beer is not produced in a particular province, even if it is produced in Canada it is considered imported.
Alexander Keiths is made in Ontario and its home province of Nova Scotia. Because of this when sold in Quebec it must legally have the label imported on it.
Also funny..
For some reason, all of the "premium" beers are Michelob products. And they serve Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers. I didn't think they still made that stuff..
This T-shirt explains it all
Here.
Columbus, not Cleveland
No, Ron is from Columbus, not Cleveland. Even though the website says the T-shirt is made by a company in Columbus, the shirt ignores the capital of Ohio, so it's irrelevant to the current discussion.
I know, I know
It was a joke. Maybe not a good one ...
If we're going to make shirt
If we're going to make shirt suggestions, I like this one better.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Killian's Red
They also have Killian's Red on the import list. Killian's Red is a Coors product.
I am guessing that this restaurant's food is not that great.
Blue Moon, too!
The online menu doesn't show it, but the restaurant's printed menu also listed Blue Moon (another Coors product) under Imported Beers.
screen capture of menu.
http://i.imgur.com/M7BlH.jpg
This is an image of the page in question.
The South is a foreign country in Boston
Star Market, looking for black-eyed peas. Found them in the "World" section. Do you think the Food Lion and Piggly-Wiggly segregate Boston Baked Beans? No, they do not.
southern food...
Before moving up to Boston from Georgia, in order to put my girlfriend's southern-food loving mind at ease, I called up a Shaw's to ask if they sold grits. I was transferred to five different employees, including management before I found someone who even knew what grits were.
Scrapple.
Try finding Rapa Scrapple. :(
Maybe Star is just indulging the South's desires
After all, it did want to be its own country, remember? (I know you do because I'm always hearing something about "rising again" or some such.)
At all events, I'm fine with mixing up the peas, just as I'm fine with having been called "Yankee-boy" while visiting, and having more in common with the folks in London than those in Atlanta.
What I am not fine with, however, is the exorbitant amount of heat and humidity that has been shipped up this summer. So if you can work it out that Piggly-Wiggly, Winn-Dixie, Publix and some other chains can come up here, bottle this crap, and take it back, that'd be great. Thanks a bunch.
Yankee Boy