''The beer that made Milt Famy walk us''
https://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/miltfamyjoke.htm
Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah
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#32Not to be forgotten, Steely Dan's unreleased jingle for Schlitz: https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/listen-to-steely-dans-long...
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did I hallucinate drinking it in high school around 92-94?
No, it was around but it was probably just Stroh's in the can at that point. I drank a ton of it at a dollar a can in the early 00's (RIP J&J's Pizza, Denton, TX). This would have been after the PBR buy out and it was probably whatever the Stroh's formula was. I drank a bunch of these PBR owned zombie brands over the last 20 years, Black Label, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, etc [1] and I've always wondered when…
Wow. Never thought I'd see J&J's come up on HN, but as soon as I saw the title, I was intrigued for exactly this reason. I was there too in the early 00's. Small world.
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#34Buried at the end of the article is the real story. "Schlitz" hasn't existed since the early 70's. They cut costs and ruined the formula and brand. In 2008 it was "revived" and a new beer took the name. Now someone else is brewing a completely different reconstructed formula for "the last batch" and throwing the name on it, again. And im sure itll happen again and again after that.
> They cut costs and ruined the formula and brand.
"they" did not cut costs! "they" was actually one single guy, who inherited an empire, and put his mark on it.. which killed it.. Robert Uihlein Jr
This is listed among some collections of "biggest mistakes in the history of US Business" IIR
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#35Is Schlitz the beer company that Laverne and Shirley work for before moving to LA?
They worked at the Shotz brewery, an obvious Schlitz standin. Hasenpfeffer is a yiddish dish, here is a video familiar to some older generations of someone who wants to eat some Hasenpfeffer https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdXm-cb2cjQ Why is it Hasenpfeffer Incorporated in the jump rope rhyme they are singing as they skip down the street? Probably because at least one of the characters is supposed to be Jewish, can't rem…
no, Hasenpfeffer is not exclusively a yiddish dish AFAIK
Re: Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah
#36''The beer that made Milt Famy walk us'' https://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/miltfamyjoke.htm
"When you're out of Bud, tough Schlitz"
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it was around but it was probably just Stroh's in the can at that point. I drank a ton of it at a dollar a can in the early 00's (RIP J&J's Pizza, Denton, TX). This would have been after the PBR buy out and it was probably whatever the Stroh's formula was. I drank a bunch of these PBR owned zombie brands over the last 20 years, Black Label, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, etc [1] and I've always wondered when…
Wow. Never thought I'd see J&J's come up on HN, but as soon as I saw the title, I was intrigued for exactly this reason. I was there too in the early 00's. Small world.
> Small world.
Indeed. I lived there for 4-5 years and left right before they started tearing down Fry Street. At that time I could see Bill Callahan at Rubber Gloves for 5 dollars, then head to the square and get my fill. Leave my car and walk home. Wake up and do it again, but instead see The Black Angels in someones house. Saw many great shows at Dan's Silverleaf and saw a number of terrible art exhibitions from the students. I had moved to the east coast by the time they burned down the Flying Tomato and it seemed like a fitting end given what I saw of the place the last time I had visited in early 2007.
I'm very fond of that place at that time. I used to commute straight into the metroplex and back out to Denton. I'd get home and park my car and have most everything a dude in his early 20s needed in walking distance.
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#38At my house, my dad always drank Schmidt’s Gay. Before the divorce, that is.
He never liked "Schlitz". (Germans might understand why. And yes, that joke risks sounding misogynistic.)
I brought a case with me to Germany for a house party. It was a hit. I even got my mini mart to start carrying it, made me chuckle to see other dipshits buying it.
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#39Is Schlitz the beer company that Laverne and Shirley work for before moving to LA?
They worked at the Shotz brewery, an obvious Schlitz standin. Hasenpfeffer is a yiddish dish, here is a video familiar to some older generations of someone who wants to eat some Hasenpfeffer https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdXm-cb2cjQ Why is it Hasenpfeffer Incorporated in the jump rope rhyme they are singing as they skip down the street? Probably because at least one of the characters is supposed to be Jewish, can't rem…
Hasenpfeffer is a German dish; per Leviticus rabbits aren't kosher.
Also see Fritz Freleng's work in 1962's "Shishkabugs": https://youtu.be/SK-cmtYrVuo?si=s4sI84cbb25J9K7F
Re: Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
They worked at the Shotz brewery, an obvious Schlitz standin. Hasenpfeffer is a yiddish dish, here is a video familiar to some older generations of someone who wants to eat some Hasenpfeffer https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdXm-cb2cjQ Why is it Hasenpfeffer Incorporated in the jump rope rhyme they are singing as they skip down the street? Probably because at least one of the characters is supposed to be Jewish, can't rem…
Hasenpfeffer is a German dish; per Leviticus rabbits aren't kosher. Also see Fritz Freleng's work in 1962's "Shishkabugs": https://youtu.be/SK-cmtYrVuo?si=s4sI84cbb25J9K7F
huh, ok I was under the impression it was yiddish, obviously a lot of yiddish comes from the German, which is why it made me think hasenpfeffer is yiddish and of course the rest of the song, so I just figured; well I guess that's what happens when you're 11 years old and don't think to double check.