This must be the New Generic Beer.
Back in my day, we drank the shit out of this,
We didn’t need to have it explained to us. Well, almost all of us.
I have this friend I have known for fifty years now and at one time back in the early 80’s we were room mates over in Portland.
OMG the parties.
Because Oregon has the bottle and can deposit, we used to stack empty half racks up against a wall in the apartment and when we’d get broke, we would take them in and cash them out.
This one wall was full of empty BEER cans , 7 foot high and twelve feet long.
White cardboard cartons with big black letters that said BEER.
We must have drank a thousand gallons of that shit.
He worked a weird shift and didn’t get home until about 8 and one night an impromptu party broke out with a bunch of friends and neighbors.
Everybody is just pounding this Generic Beer, because it’s cheap.
My buddy finally comes home and I just happen to be standing by the front door with a full can in my hand when he walks in.
Hey Jerry! Here, have a beer.
He grabs it out of my hand, turns it around, looks at the label and says,
“What Is this, Beer?”
The guy will never live that down as long as I’m alive.
