Australia Sends SCO on Walkabout

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:35:53PM -0400, Tom Wilson wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:37, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:48:48AM -0400, Tom Wilson wrote:
>> ...
>> >So is that why beer is so expensive there?  They have a Booze
>> >Bureaucracy?  I was in Kill Devil Hills in late June and paid $20 US for
>> >a case of Miller Lite.  I felt I was stroked.  Now here in Ohio, we
>> >drive to Kentucky and get Miller Lite for $12 a case.  And Samuel
>> >Smith's Oatmeal Stout is only $3.99 a pint.  Mmmmm...
>> 
>> I don't think you could sell Miller Lite, Bud Lite, Coors, etc.  for any
>> price in Oz, New Zealand, or other places where real beer, ale, and stout
>> is available.  The only thing people here in the Pacific NW would use
>> Miller Lite for is slug bait.
>
>Agreed.  I prefer fine English Ales myself.  But I was on vacation with
>the family so I had to please the, err, unenlightened beer drinkers.

I've found that even backwater bars usually have Guiness which is a good
fallback.  If they don't have Guiness, I drink ice tea rather than the
unrecycled piss that passes for beer there.

Bill
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