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From: schnitzl@hplabsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: More Kronenbourg foolishness
Message-ID: <2376@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 11:54:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 13 11:54:15 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Jul-84 09:46:14 EDT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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A while back I posted a comment on Kronenbourg's series of silly
commercials which sort of hang around a "better, not bitter" slogan
(observing at the time that beer is SUPPOSED to be bitter).

They've got a couple more interesting things.  The commercials are done by
someone affecting an English accent.  One of them has a comment about
abominable English beer, comparing it to swamp water.  De gustibus non est
disputandum, but I wonder how CAMRA feels about laying that sort of epithet
on a beer just because it's cask (naturally) conditioned?

Then there's the interesting end to the commercial, where the affected
English accent stumbles over the new-world name "Connecticut" quite
believably, but murders the totally English name "Greenwich" (it comes out
as Green-witch).

I know, it's mind-rot for the masses, but I wish they'd be a little careful
about beer.  Is nothing sacred???
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