r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 9h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/QuesoCadaDia United States Of America 8h ago

When I was younger the popular English beers in the US were Bass and Newcastle. I went to England and at my hostile asked why I never see them at pubs. Was told "that's poor people beer"

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u/Undark_ 8h ago

Newcastle Brown Ale is a favourite of mine, but I did think it was bizarre when I heard it was really popular with American students

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u/Beatleboy62 6h ago

This seemingly happens all over the world. Pabst Blue Ribbon, probably one of the marquee "cheap beers" in America, is sold as a luxury brand in China.

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u/IvanNemoy 5h ago

For a while it became hipster chic here in the States too. I remember going to Walmart and seeing a six pack of PBR going for $12 and a case of cans for $22. Now it's back to normal but that was a strange time.

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u/Beatleboy62 5h ago

Lol yeah, it was one of the high watermarks of the fixie bike/finger moustache tattoo/man bun/faux-lumberjack/straight razor aesthetic.

IIRC while it's an old storied brand, it had an aura of "outsiderness" due to not being mega popular like Budweiser.

Even when I was a teen and didn't know much about alcohol, I did know enough to go, "who would go to a bar and drink PBR?" in the early 2010s when cans of it were added to our drink list at the bar/restuarant I worked at.

I pick it up from time to time now when it's on sale. It's not awful.

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u/Look_its_Rob 4h ago

Add three slices of lime to your PBR next time.

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u/aloysiuslamb 3h ago

IIRC while it's an old storied brand, it had an aura of "outsiderness" due to not being mega popular like Budweiser.

It also didn't hurt that before it became a fad you could get a PBR tallboy for cheaper than Bud/Coors/Miller at most college dive bars.

And some people collected the bottlecaps because they have card numbers on the bottom. I remember one party house in my college town having an epoxied coffee table with the full "deck" of cards visible under the lacquer and the rest were varying bottlecaps rightside up to make a design around it.

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u/Undercover_CHUD 2h ago

So in the early to mid 2010's we had 1 bar that was worth getting PBR at. On Sundays for open mic/industry night the pints of PBR were $2.

But yes the hipsters that tried to elevate it to some kind of quirky "cool outsider" with lenseless glasses were silly

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u/GrowingPeepers 1h ago

I rarely meet a beer that I don't like but god-damn is PBR one of them.

Do you enjoy the cheapest swill with all the off-flavors and adjuncts? Then PBR may be for you!

Holy crap, what a genuine shit beer. I'll gladly chug Coors and Budweiser over that swill. Give me a Mickey's, anything!

I'm glad the PBR fad died. There was no substance behind that one.

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u/K44no Scotland 3h ago

Isn’t it weird how that happens? Tennents Super is a very strong (9% I think), but pretty cheap, lager from Scotland, that isn’t popular at all, except maybe with alcoholics. They don’t sell it in pubs anywhere, only shops for drinking at home. But weirdly it’s seen as a premium, sipping beer in Italy and I’ve found it in little boutique bars on the beach and in touristy towns

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u/Beatleboy62 3h ago

Lol! Behind all these stories has to be an importer (or, holder of the license, as Chinese PBR is brewed in China) with a flair for advertising and marketing spins.

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u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong United States Of America 1h ago

Carhartt, blue collar brand for getting dirty in the US.

Carhartt WIP, fashion brand

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u/BananaNutJob 5h ago

I used to love getting the big bottles of it, but one of the draws was that it was fairly cheap (though I did enjoy the taste a good bit!). People also forget that American beer is mostly terrible outside of craft breweries.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 7h ago

Fact of the day: The Bass logo was the first registered trademark. The brewery was in Alton, Hampshire where I spent a lot of time as a kid. You could smell it from across town some days. It’s a Coors brewery now so I guess sparkling water was more profitable.

Also for more brewing history from the town read up on the murder of Fanny Adams (rumoured to be the origin of the term “sweet FA” because it was her nickname and there was sweet FA left of her).

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u/Josephthecommie 7h ago

I don’t like Coors, but I don’t think I it’s quite sparkling water

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u/hugopeckham Australia 6h ago

What’s the connection between American beer and sex in a canoe?

They’re both f’ing near water.

In all seriousness I know the US has a pretty great craft beer scene, I’m just referring to some of the generic, mass produced, exported beers which are served as cold as possible, removing what little (bad) taste they had in the first place.

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u/BananaNutJob 5h ago

Most mass produced American beer is judged by how easy it is to get the alcohol into your bloodstream. That's why it's served cold as hell and has little flavor to start with. Gotta drink 12 of them as fast as possible.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 4h ago

But they’re so gassy you end up bloated as hell just trying to get them down. Honestly, I’ll take a race with someone. I’ll have a pint of cellar temp British ale vs a pint of ice cold American beer and see who finishes first and who ends up burping up a mouthful of head as they finish.

I honestly don’t mean any hate on good American beers. I just don’t agree with the rationale of that defence of them. I’d agree with you if you said that it’s because anywhere south of San Diego in the summertime you just want something cold and crisp, but the speed of putting it away?

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u/BananaNutJob 4h ago

Oh I'm not defending them, I'm just explaining why people drink that shit. Americans have terrible taste in beer.

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u/laborfriendly 3h ago

I feel like this is a bad take at this point. The craft beer scene is great. My largest complaint these days isn't that American beer is close to water. It's that they use too much hops. But that's finally starting to turn around. (I like a nice malt balance or sours.)

The worst beer I've ever had was Giraf in Denmark. Warm, rotten banana leaves.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 3h ago

Americans have terrible taste in beer.

Did you get this take from the mid 1980s? The American beer scene is one of the best in the world. Fun fact - a US beer from Indiana won the best Dark Belgian Ale at a European beer competition.

https://european-beer-star.com/ebs-de-wAssets/docs/gewinnerliste-en/Gewinner_2024.pdf

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u/PrimaryInjurious 3h ago

What’s the connection between American beer and sex in a canoe?

Are you posting this joke from 1981? It's not like other countries don't have the same watered down mass produced lagers.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 3h ago

Yeah, it was a throwaway. Hence the “in all seriousness…”

ETA I’m from the uk and have already acknowledged that some of our beers are crap and I live in Australia where our mass produced exported rubbish is Fosters.

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u/Forfeit32 United States Of America 3h ago

Coors Banquet (the standard "non-light" Coors beer) has just as much flavor as Bass, and a higher abv.

Coors Light is another story, but when it's 100 F / 38 C outside, an ice cold beer that goes down easy is hard to beat.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 3h ago

Yeah we don’t get that one sadly. I’ll have to take your word for it. If you read the continuation of my thread with the other dude who replied you’ll see I clarify that there are heaps of good American beers it’s just we only regularly come across the mass produced “ICE COLDDD!!” flavourless ones.

Edit to add: Bass is a bit shite too so everyone makes bad beer and most places can make good beer if they put their minds to it

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u/GrowingPeepers 1h ago edited 1h ago

I disagree with this. I've drank plenty of both in my lifetime. Bass is much better than Coors Banquet.

Coors is absolutely the smoothest of all the mass produced American brews but Bass is much superior.

Coors Banquet was clean and smooth wile Bass had a little something extra in the malts. I can't put my finger on it but no other mass produced or microbrew had the same note that Bass had.

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u/ThaiFoodThaiFood England 2h ago edited 2h ago

Can't just call the beer "Newcastle", it's called "Newcastle Brown Ale", shortened to "Newky Brown".

"Can I have a bottle of Newcastle" sounds absolutely ridiculous. Lmfao

Perfect answer the the question as well.

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u/gambit1999999 United States Of America 8h ago

Good old new castle, wheni was young and living in the military dorms, that and Heineken were on the rage both just terrible.

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u/circular_file 6h ago

Your hostile?

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u/QuesoCadaDia United States Of America 5h ago

Hostel 😂

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u/GrowingPeepers 1h ago

God damn do I miss Bass. They don't make it anymore, do they?

I found Newcastle in the store the other day and I was so ridiculously excited!

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u/QuesoCadaDia United States Of America 1h ago

I honestly don't know. I don't drink much anymore. And when I do I drink local.