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[–] Winter8593 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Will someone explain what I'm not country enough to understand

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think they're lamps made out of beer bottles (just with no lightbulbs installed yet, they'd sit in the top).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

For a minute I thought these were carbonation savers, special caps for fizzy wines that make it so they don't lose to much bubbles over night.

Which didn't catch me as very redneck

[–] clutch 5 points 8 months ago

Light beer lights.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Further context for those outside US:

The bottles are from two of the most common, cheap domestic beers, which can be found everywhere but are strongly associated with low-brow party culture of the suburbs and the holler (tailgating, barbecues, etc). Like, if you order one of these at an upscale place, it’s probably either to signal approachability / lack of pretension or because it’s the cheapest thing on the menu.

Also making do with what’s at hand, aka “redneck engineering,” is a meme in its own right.

Edit: not turning my nose up, to be clear. (Though if I’m picking up a case of cheap beer, it’ll be PBR or Schlitz if that’s still around. Maybe non-light Coors.)