Or at least pass Medicare for all through reconciliation? Seriously, WTF. Crap, I swore I wasn't going to talk about this crap, because all week I've been a bit worried about the tone that some comments and diaries have taken. I think we all need to take a deep breath, and take a break from that shit. Tonight we are not here to talk about that. We are here to drink, eat, drink, possibly snack, and be merry. It is the holiday season after all. That's right Bill-O, I said 'holiday' not 'Christmas'. Ooh that's sure gonna chap his hide.
This particular edition of FNBB, is about the enjoyment of cheap nasty beers when we were younger, and how we'd turn our noses up at them now. When I went to college, I lived on a steady diet of Milwaukee's Best Light, otherwise known as 'The Beast'. Way back then, less than ten years ago, you could pick up a twelver for five bucks. What a time.
Later on, when I classed it up with Lite, or Bud Light, my buddies still hadn't grown out of the cheap beer stage. Their poison of choice was Natural Light, affectionately called 'Nattie' for short.
Well, for kicks, tonight, along with a twelve pack of Becks for later, I bought a couple two-by-fours of The Beast. I wanted to drink them first, to see how awful they were with my taste buds fully functioning. Verdict: pretty bad, but not worse than expected, and they were only like a buck thirty a piece.
So while you all answer the question I always ask,
What are you drinking this evening,
try to remember a time when crap beer was enjoyable, when spending eighteen bucks for twelve beers seemed insane, and when that twelve pack was simply out of your reach.
What did you do then? Well you wanted to get your buzz on, so you forced down a product that was distasteful, and though it was awful at first, a few hours in, it wasn't bad at all, and it got you where you wanted to go, albeit with a shitty taste in your mouth.
Drink up my malted barley brethren, and drink hearty, for tonight, or early AM we dine at Denny's.