(If those SOBs at “Cuties” trick me into buying one more bag of mislabeled tangerines like they do at the end of every clementine season then Im tempted to drive to their HQ and go postal. Im so damned tired of them ripping me off...nah, wouldnt waste vacation time on that as fun as it may be.)
Im sure that problem distributors are part of the issue. I once complained here on FR about the fact that there were no real grapes in any stores from Chicago to Marquette and hadnt been for 20 years. Almost literally over night we had every conceivable color and flavor of grape appear in the stores and those damned sour little green footballs that covered the shelves for decades had disappeared.
I thought, “Wow, thats quite a coincidence. Maybe there is somebody on FR that makes a living shipping produce around the country.” So I tried again when a previous citrus conversation came up. I was hoping that something from the Southern US would appear. I made the comment that I had only been buying things coming from Spain, Morocco, and Chile because everything from California was crap. Well, if anyone noticed that then it backfired. All the foreign stuff disappeared and now theres nothing but California garbage citrus on the shelves.
I live in Wisconsin. A person might think that there are a lot of great beer drinking opportunities here. That person would be wrong. Well, at least in my quarter of the state. There is effectively a single distributor that provides the same bad beer to every event. You might think that they would make more money actually selling beer but maybe it just takes too much effort to move that many barrels. It didnt bother me too much because I could always just go into one purveyor or another outside the event and order a beer but that effort has turned into a bad Monty Python sketch.
“Hi, what kind of beer do you have?”
“Well, a lot of people like My Left Nut. Its is a choco-mocha chestnut rosemary infused IPA.”
“Ah, no. Anything else?”
“Well, we have an Irish red doghair and sardine...”
“No. Beer. I want a beer. Do you have anything like a helles? A kolsche? An alt or maybe a bock? No? How about just a some kind of pilsner?”
“Ummm...we have Bud lite.”
“Stop it. No...Ill...just... go elsewhere.” (Yes, the Shatner pauses are important.)
Thats become more difficult too as the same place seems to be taking over distribution everywhere.
We cant blame it all on the distributors though can we? Who creates all these bad products in the first place? Is it a mental problem that just kind of takes over whole industries?
The market?...Responding to....Its those damned Millennials again! Some of the best scientific proof that the intense vaccination schedule is damaging our children is that we have an entire generation with some sort of taste bud autism.
[[those damned sour little green footballs that covered the shelves for decades had disappeared.]]
LOL- Yep- nothing worse than getting a bag of grapes home and biting into them and nearly passing out doing the sour mash tango-
[[Hi, what kind of beer do you have?”
“Well, a lot of people like My Left Nut. Its is a choco-mocha chestnut rosemary infused IPA.”
“Ah, no. Anything else?”
“Well, we have an Irish red doghair and sardine...”
“No. Beer. I want a beer. Do you have anything like a helles? A kolsche? An alt or maybe a bock? No? How about just a some kind of pilsner?”
“Ummm...we have Bud lite.”
“Stop it. No...Ill...just... go elsewhere.” (Yes, the Shatner pauses are important.)]]
LOL Sounds just like Shatner-
[[We cant blame it all on the distributors though can we?]]
I think it’s a conspiracy to create a ‘Cult Following of a really bad beer’- they crush any competing good tasting beers that should crop up from time to time-
We have a number of small town breweries- I don’t drink so no idea how they are- but at least there is variety and plenty of competition to choose from for those that do-