Posted on 03/24/2020 12:05:35 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
Buckhorn beer came out of the same vat as Hamms. Packaging was the only difference.
Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett
I blew out my flip flop
Stepped on a pop top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
Back then men just drove around with grizzly bears in the passenger seat just in case he needed to fix someone’s attitude the hard way. No better wingman in a brawl than a grizzly, I’ll tell you.
Available in Minnesota
And Wyoming. I prefer Schmidt but Hamms is great.
Back in the day, Schaefer and Blatz were the two most godawful beers on the market. Schaefer had this sulfur smell and taste, and Blatz was just so gnarly it was the only beer ever to come out of a liquor store that made me literally barf in mid-brew. The other two in that price range that were infinitely better were National Bohemian and Iron City (and they sucked, too). See if you can guess the region I was born and raised.
I bought my first car in 1965 (a VW). It had seatbelts.
ML/NJ
In 1000 years archaeologists will be digging up pop tops and identifying them as religious symbols due to how common they are found everywhere. That's the default when they don't know what something was for: 'religious artifact' or 'religious ceremony'
“Hey! Don’t be a litterbug!”
“Wull...where should I put the tab, then?”
“In the can! But just sip it! Don’t guzzle!”
That’s how I learned it!
Yes it was and you could just throw the can on the beach or out the window of your car and they could easily be avoided from stepping on them...........Then they had to ruin it all by putting a deposit on the cans, making it convenient for bums to pick them up and cash in.....LOL!
It is a bad idea. But people did it.
That was a VW ... he said Men ... LOLOL ...
A buddy made a “chainmail” shirt from pull-tabs. Then he graduated to wire-cutters and coat-hangers to make more. Used an old mannequin torso as a guide.
With Jim Zabel, IIRC.
Hamm's was the beer I thought everybody - except my dad - drank, because so many relatives and drank it, and every place we moved in Iowa was a Hamm's enclave. I couldn't believe it when they closed.
Those pop tops were everywhere, a real menace if you dared walk around barefoot outside, especially on a beach.
“I blew out my flip flop
Stepped on a pop top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
But there’s booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on”
Hey Mabel! Another Black Label!
Carlings...
mmichaels1970 wrote: “Coors was illegal East of the Mississippi. We scored big points if we found an empty Coors can.”
Coors wasn’t illegal, per se, East of the Mississippi. Back then Coors just wasn’t sold there. If it was illegal it was because state taxes hadn’t been paid.
I lived in Alabama and my parents were living in Oklahoma. Every trip home, I would buy three/four cases of Coors to bring back to Alabama. $1.25 per six pack in Oklahoma. I would get at least $5 for a six pack in Alabama. Paid my travel expenses.
Yep. We used to do that all the time with those pull-tops. We saw that as being environmentally conscious as opposed to tossing them to the ground. We didn't worry about the germs either.
Innocent days. When you could ride in a jeep with a bear in the front seat with you sipping on a beer.
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