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From: cdshaw@alberta.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: stubby beer bottles/dumb liquor laws
Message-ID: <126@pembina.alberta.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 17:11:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  6 17:11:15 1986
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Reply-To: cdshaw@pembina.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
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Keywords: stubby beer bottles

In article scott@utcs.UUCP (Scott Campbell) writes:
> Keith's had gone to tall neck.

Old news, but yet another blow against Easternkind

>While we are on the topic of useless properties of the Canadian beer
>industry, I'd like to know why it is that we in Ontario are deprived of
>Maritime beer (such as Keith's which everyone at home in Nova Scotia drinks) 

Now, now Scott, some DO drink Moosehead & Oland's.

>which is much better tasting than the garbage that they brew in Ontario. 

Where does James Ready fit in here??

>Just about everyone in the world can drink Moosehead except us.
>People in the States and in England tell me what good beer we have and
>I can't even drink it without going home and bringing back a case or two.

Can you say "brewers monopoly"? The recent brew-ha-ha about corner-store
liquor sALEs in Ontario just goes to show you what dumbsh*t provincialism
and commercial pressure will do.

>There is something vitally wrong with the Canadian alcohol industry and
>particularly Ontario (where else do you have to go to separate stores to
>get wine and beer?). Something should be done.

Don't count yourself so unlucky. Here in snowy Alberta, they have one-stop
shopping for beer, wine & spirits, but get this....

	THEY DON'T TAKE EMPTIES !!!

Amazing, isn't it? You have to go to a brewery to get your deposit back.
If stores sold POP on that basis, they'd be breaking the law!!

>Scott J. M. Campbell

Chris Shaw    cdshaw@alberta
University of Alberta
CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !