A few words of advice for our American friends.

The Czech Budweiser Budwar, available in the UK is a very pleasant continental lager beer, and as the offy next to the curry-house used to sell it I have enjoyed it as an accompaniment to many take-aways.
In contrast the US derived Budweiser is imo unpleasant gnat's piss.

I'm not anti- US but in this case US Budweiser should be kept where it belongs.

BTW the other day on TV I discovered what "eggs over-easy" meant and that's the way I like them and my mum used to cook them! I have to admit it is easier than saying 'just turned for about thirty seconds when the white is cooked but leaving the yolk soft', when asked how you like your fried egg.

Although your default assumption might be that us USA'ns are provincial untraveled louts, it turns out that this Guy has actually visited the UK in person, and done so more than once. The beer was warm.

To be fair, that was in the 70's so you folks may have become slightly more civilized since then? Perhaps the positive influence of USA culture has asserted itself sufficiently that your beer is now served somewhat cooler than it was 40 years ago.

Who likes Budweiser anyway. Give me a good imported beer any day. Coors beer is pretty good.

This company hold a 20% share of the U.K. market, with major brewing plants in Yorkshire (Tadcaster) and Staffordshire (Burton-on-Trent) (Next door to Marmite so they can be rid of the excess yeast) .

Funny old world, The British beers we boast of now owned by overseas interests !

People drinking cold beer do so, because they do not like the taste of beer. The same goes for people, who puts ice cubes in whisky. Cold red wine is a crime. There are strange people all over the world, who drinks iced tea or coffee. As long they are not violent, let them do as they like.

Is this the time to remind people of the old Monty Python joke:

"We find your American beer like making love in a canoe."

??

"It's fucking close to water!"

As memory serves, we had two brawls over this kind of harassment---one in 1776 and the other in 1812. If we have to come over there to get you to knock it off, it won't be pretty. When the Enterprise comes steaming up the Thames (rhymes with "James" says me) you better start practicing driving on the right side of the road. I mean, nobody who eats something called "spotted dick" should ever be allowed to dictate this stuff----much less football. Go Ducks.

Nothing wrong with spotted dick eaten with thick yellow custard!! You don't know what your missing, Rollin!! Those old fashioned puddings are one thing I have a weakness for. Doesn't do my waistline any good though!

Rollin's post (which sums up everything nicely) aside, methinks this discussion has devolved into a pissing contest over whose beer is better/colder/warmer or, in the opinion of one, tastes like "unpleasant gnat's piss." (Which begs the question: would it be ok if it tasted like PLEASANT gnat's piss?). And isn't that what all beer - warm, cold, tastes great/less filling, and yes, even one which tastes like gnat's piss, whether pleasant or unpleasant - does: make those of us who drink it engage in pissing contests? because, as a wise man (not me, obviously) once said, "you don't buy beer - you rent it."

And yes, while we in the US sometimes do engage in the practice of using words and phrases like "you know" and "like" as fillers, I wonder: if we stopped using them, would those of you from the UK stop saying "cheerio" and "I say" (sometimes followed by "old chap") though crooked teeth?

I say (old chap?) we should put this whole matter to a vote: Those of us who believe in driving on the right side of the road, drinking cold beer, pronouncing Thames like "James," and never adding a "u" after an "o" in words (except thouse(!) in which it obviously belongs, (like, uh, "obviously") all should vote to overthrow the apparent movement to Anglicize us to the point where every spanking story we write must have the phrase "six o' the best" in it. Those who believe in driving on the WRONG (i.e. left) side of the road can vote otherwise.

Please do not let the fact that there are over 5000 US members and about 1500 members from England dissuade you from recognizing that this will be a fair and balanced vote.

USS Enterprise HELL! That would be unsportsmanlike overkill. We've kept the USS Constitution in commission all these years just in case we need to go back and kick some UK ass.




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