Comments on: Damned with Faint Praise

By: orangehairboy

orangehairboy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:47:07 +0000

Mark, beer IS delicious, and they DO have beer-flavored ice cream, e.g. at Scoops in L.A.

By: prodigalsonnybono

prodigalsonnybono — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:43:42 +0000

Glade Plug-Ins – They have an ODOR!

By: Tessa

Tessa — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:31:16 +0000

I saw this commercial the other day too and had the same thought. “Drinkable” seems to me to connote that a product is just tolerable enough to drink. Either that or it’s a retardedly self-evident statement considering that all drinks are “drinkable” by necessity.

Thanks Bud Light for alerting me that you can be physically imbibed. Now if only a food brand would tout their “edibleness,” then I could avoid starving to death!

By: gerard

gerard — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:15:31 +0000

I’ve had PBR, Schlitz, Schmidt, Hamms (from the land of skyblue waters!), Pig’s Eye, Bud Light, Rheingold, Scheaffer and many other crappy US beers. Conclusion: they taste poor to awful, there’s a bad aftertaste about halfway into the second bottle, and a bonghit would have been a lot better to start with. But there are no hash bars in America. I do like some of the dark, malty and hoppy microbrews. One could almost say they are delicious (in the way smelly cheeses are).

By: brian

brian — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:20:05 +0000

Busch Light is totally one of the few beers that can claim that mantle. I guess my thing is, if you’re gonna drink a semi-crappy American beer, at least find something out of the ordinary. Like Pig’s Eye, or any of the awesome old brands that Pabst bought up in the Midwest — Old Style, Schlitz, and such.

Or, y’know. A better beer in general is also an option.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:04:25 +0000

I like the little Freudian slip in the parenthetical phrase there. Is this how your computer has learned to auto-complete the letters “Bu”?

FWIW, Busch Light is even worse than Bud Light.

By: Crispy on the outside, tender on the inside « Sting of Reason

Crispy on the outside, tender on the inside « Sting of Reason — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:26:55 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:22:26 +0000

Personally, I’d be glad to give a thorough pounding to anybody who uses the word “delicious” in a commercial. Very seldom does a food merit “delicious,” and that goes for most of the food I really like. But seriously? Crackers are not delicious. Soup, often good, rarely delicious. In general, if it’s advertised on TV, it doesn’t qualify.

And as far as beer goes, I’m convinced that nobody really thinks it tastes good anyway. If they did, wouldn’t there be beer flavored ice cream and beer candy? If you got your all-important buzz, what do you have to complain about?

“Delicious” is a word lazy ad writers use when they’re stuck for copy and late for cocktails.

By: David Grenier

David Grenier — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:03:15 +0000

I thought beer was pretty much sold on “there are hotter chicks in our commercials.”