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Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah

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Re: Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah

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Earlier 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…

As a native Yiddish speaker (it was my first language!) I can assure you that "Hasenpfeffer" is not a Yiddish dish, it is rabbit and most definitely _treif_. Yiddish speakers would not eat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenpfeffer Shleimiel and Shlmazal are yiddish, via Hebrew. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9... and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9...

yeah, TIL, although I suppose there must have been a reasonable number of Yiddish speakers, Isaac Asimov springs immediately to mind, who would have had no problem eating it.

I just thought it was a dish that was popular in yiddish speaking communities based specifically on the song, and stuff like the Freleng cartoons, which obviously no idea if Freleng spoke Yiddish although it seems reasonably likely that he had some familiarity.

Re: Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah

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Buried 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.

Did I hallucinate drinking it in high school around 92-94?

We drank plenty of Schlitz malt liquor 40s in the late 90s. They were pretty gross..
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