TOPIC:

"BiddyEarly":13s1hmkc wrote: I was at a party recently where a guy came out to the BBQ area moaning that they were out of Heineken, then picked a bottle of Blonde Biddy out of the cooler, and said, "I suppose these foreign beers are alright are they?"![/quote:13s1hmkc]
<!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> (Sorry, can't find the sympathy smiley.)

Please tell me you'll be selling your wares in Galway.

&amp;quot;BiddyEarly&amp;quot;:eazj8kax wrote: Well, if you want disheartening.....
I was at a party recently where a guy came out to the BBQ area moaning that they were out of Heineken, then picked a bottle of Blonde Biddy out of the cooler, and said, "I suppose these foreign beers are alright are they?"![/quote:eazj8kax]
Sure everyone knows Heineken is Irish, sure isn't it made in Cork? <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: -->
Whats almost worse is that a) he was stealing some elses beer and b) he obviously didn't see the series of ads where the experienced party goers hides the heineken in the guts of the chicken, and under all the other beers in the bucket of ice....

&amp;quot;BiddyEarly&amp;quot;:kv9g17ur wrote: Well, if you want disheartening.....
I was at a party recently where a guy came out to the BBQ area moaning that they were out of Heineken, then picked a bottle of Blonde Biddy out of the cooler, and said, "I suppose these foreign beers are alright are they?"![/quote:kv9g17ur]

Maybe he meant this foreign tasting beer i.e. Blonde Biddy has taste

&amp;quot;kenmc&amp;quot;:33t19yk6 wrote: Sure everyone knows Heineken is Irish, sure isn't it made in Cork? <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: -->
Whats almost worse is that a) he was stealing some elses beer and b) he obviously didn't see the series of ads where the experienced party goers hides the heineken in the guts of the chicken, and under all the other beers in the bucket of ice....[/quote:33t19yk6]
Lol! " Tell me quando, quando, quando... " <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->

It's just distrust of the unknown. Some people like to try new things, others are afraid of trying new things, in case they don't like them.

For example, when I was in college I made a pot of Spaghetti Bolognese for myself and my girlfriend. As I had made more than we needed, I offered a plate to a friend who happened to be there, at the time. He refused, as he had never eaten it before and didn't like the look of pasta. I was speechless. The idea of a penniless student refusing a free plate of spag bol...

It's worse with beer. The big boys spend a fortune on advertising, to make people think of their beers as friendly, accessible beverages, that everyone enjoys. That's why people think of micro-brews as foreign. What they actually mean is unfamiliar, because in order of a beer to be considered safe and familiar, you must have been exposed to thousands of reassuring adverts for it.

&amp;quot;sbillings&amp;quot;:2fsrbo3x wrote: I offered a plate to a friend who happened to be there, at the time. He refused, as he had never eaten it before and didn't like the look of pasta.[/quote:2fsrbo3x]Mad. At the weekends did your friend get the bus back home to 1961?

'Course, the other side of that is a Turkish friend of a friend who held a dinner party and served his special family-recipe dessert. When people asked what was in it he told them it was chicken-based, and was then surprised at the sudden negative reactions.