I saw an interesting documentary once on craft and microbreweries. One of the brewers being interviewed said (paraphrased): “It’s kind of fashionable to run down the huge companies like Anheuser-Busch, but secretly we all wish we had their consistency and quality control; you can count on one Budweiser to taste exactly like every other one no matter where you are, and we just can’t do that.”
His point was: his beer was great at the brewery… except when it wasn’t, and he occasionally had to discard batches that went “off”… but if he tried to ship it to someplace 500 miles away, it just wasn’t the same.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, because I’ve tried lots of beers: Conglomo-brand mass-produced, craft beers, microbrews, English stuff at an English pub in England … and I think they’re all vile (though the more it looks like pumpernickel, the less I seem to hate it). I can sort of tolerate Guinness, so I can easily imagine that anyone who likes the others would hate it because it has less of that essence of vileness that they love.
That’s the first thing I wondered also. I initially thought she was at school, but the sun is awfully low in the sky for that. Either that’s a picnic breakfast or Meg is, as someone else suggested, with Grandpa.
@Ashburn: Eris is more massive than Pluto, but is now thought to be about the same size, just denser.
@Zedman: learning quantum mechanics kind of kills notions like that. The Solar system is vaguely similar to the mental picture most people have of atoms, but it’s NOTHING like a real atom.
Purity Of Essense. General Jack D. Ripper is obsessed by it in the movie Dr. Strangelove. He’s convinced that fluoridation is a communist plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids, and drinks only rainwater. Oh, and grain alcohol.
I saw an interesting documentary once on craft and microbreweries. One of the brewers being interviewed said (paraphrased): “It’s kind of fashionable to run down the huge companies like Anheuser-Busch, but secretly we all wish we had their consistency and quality control; you can count on one Budweiser to taste exactly like every other one no matter where you are, and we just can’t do that.”
His point was: his beer was great at the brewery… except when it wasn’t, and he occasionally had to discard batches that went “off”… but if he tried to ship it to someplace 500 miles away, it just wasn’t the same.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, because I’ve tried lots of beers: Conglomo-brand mass-produced, craft beers, microbrews, English stuff at an English pub in England … and I think they’re all vile (though the more it looks like pumpernickel, the less I seem to hate it). I can sort of tolerate Guinness, so I can easily imagine that anyone who likes the others would hate it because it has less of that essence of vileness that they love.