[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 13 hours ago

Authentic horseco piss or the imitation shit

[–] renzev 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

[–] qaz 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is completely absurd, why would they want to make the straws last longer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Because then you'd really have to suck to enjoy capitalist cost cutting lemonade.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

where's the lemonade stand that has a side hustle of nuclear/chemical waste disposal?

[–] RevolverSly 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The piss and pink hair make reference to Belle Delphine's bath water sale, right?

[–] Mr_Fish 17 points 19 hours ago

It had just been long enough that I forgot about that shit. Now you had to go and remind me.

I return the favor.

THE GAME

[–] DarkCloud 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's not dilluted so much as, this cheap cancer inducing chemical can flavor it strongly for not much money... But we know it's associated with cancer... Good thing we own the FDA too.

.... and then they make a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

There should be a third panel with text from this HB comment:

Even more reality:

Capitalist 1: I launched a fascist coup in el salvador to gain easier access for tropical fruits

Capitalist 2: I cut away all my lemonade production to invest in AI

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The piss one would probably sell alot actually...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

As shown by the fact that people buy beer made in the US

[–] kn33 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spoken like someone that's never had U.S. beer that isn't one of the mass produced ones like Miller, Bud, etc.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 17 points 1 day ago

The craft brew movement was great right up until it got a bit too successful. Now a bunch of the indies have been gobbled up. Anheuser-Busch InBev has bought up Goose Island, Elysian, Devils Backbone, and Karbach, just to name a few of note.

Sapporo famously bought up century-old Anchor Brewery during COVID, tried to convert their steam-beer brewing equipment into Japanese style production, failed, and ended up shuttering the plant.

Then you've got the Sam Adams and Coors success stories, which ultimately ended up becoming more of the same big labels. If you've ever actually been to Boston or Denver, you can still get the more traditionally made beers and they're miles ahead of the generic crap distributed nationally.

[–] BetaBlake -3 points 1 day ago

Oh American beer is piss, haven't heard that tired joke before. You should try different beer that isn't Coors or miller sometime

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're drinking beer from hops that aren't from the US (or New Zealand but that's a way smaller market) then there's a very good chance your beer is average at best (unless it's a stout, wheat beer, bitter, sour etc. rather than a lager or pale ale, but those two are most likely)

[–] FooBarrington 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Weird, all the Americans I've drank German beer (from German hops) with called it far better than what they were used to

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because they don’t know anything about beer and it’s basically a meme at this point that boomers came up with (rooted in truth in their defense) because we spent decades rebuilding our beer scene after prohibition and, more importantly, Carter’s legalization of homebrewing.

Germany - like most european countries - is amazing at making old world/regional styles. You don’t go to the US to get a Czech Pilsner or a proper Marzen. You get stouts, hazy IPA’s, etc. Germany even relaxed its laws on what qualifies as a proper-made [insert style] about a decade ago to be more competitive with the US craft beer movement.

This is like complaining that some country doesn’t have amazing champagne like the champagne region in France or a New Yorker whining about how they can’t get a quality New York pizza in Idaho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weird, all the Germans I've drank Belgian beer with called it far better than what they were used to

/jk, couldn't resist trying to assert the beer superiority of my tiny country :)

[–] FooBarrington 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't had much Belgian beer, but the ones I had were great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try to avoid the popular exports (Leffe for example), there are a lot of breweries that make generally better beers :)
Plus if you got some recommendations for German beers I'm all ears

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip, I'll try to keep a look out!

Most of my experience is with the southern regions, my favorite being Tegernseer Hell - I think I've seen that in Belgium, though that might have been at one of those "sells every kind of beer" kiosks in Brussels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks. I generally buy my beers from such shops, because regular stores don't sell that many types. I'll check if they have some next time.

Some of my favourites are from l'Hermitage, la Caracole or la Brasserie de la Seine. But there are so many breweries and choices that I could drink a different one every day for the whole year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's why I said average at best - average beer is going to taste way better than bad beer and also perfectly acceptable, I don't mean it in a negative way, just that in the standard 3-7% golden beer fermented with only yeast category, Cascadian & New Zealand hops provide the best and widest array of tastes regardless of what you're after, as that's where the soil is best and where the breeding is generally done

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are there actual, scientific studies on this topic? Because it's hard for me to take your word for it when all my lived experience has been the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So there's obviously a split between objective fact and opinion and conjecture, but:

Outbreaks of powdery mildew in the early 20th century meant it became somewhat infeasible to grow most aromatic and flavoursome hops, leading to research and breeding programmes to produce disease resistant hops with other desired characteristics
Most of the mildew-resistant hops were wild and from the US and Canada
Hop breeding and research started in the UK but ended in the 2000s
Oregon State University has been breeding hops for almost 100 years
The USDA also has their hop research center in Oregon
The US is responsible for 40% of hop production, of which over 98% is in Oregon, Washington and Idaho
Cascade hops, from the USDA research center in Oregon, started the craft beer movement due to the combination of high flavour and disease tolerance
German hop research started in 1926, but only had any real success after the 1980s

So essentially, the US has just got very lucky when it comes to hop production with good soils and disease resistance, while German beermaking was set back leading other styles to become and remain popular, such as very lightly hopped wheat beers, sour beers where the acidity comes from the fermentation instead of hops, and more recently Belgian style beers that are stronger abv so the stronger alcohol taste substitutes for some of the strength of the hops

There probably are also studies, but they tend to look into mechanisms/variations whereas this is more of a series of coinciding factors which don't really need much research to make sense

[–] FooBarrington 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation, I didn't know about a lot of that! But the jump from all of that information to "beer with hop outside US/NZ is only average" is too large and too subjective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I get it's a big jump, but I've been clear I'm restricting it to the most popular types of beer and explained why US bred and grown hops had the good fortune to be the most aromatic disease resistant hops, so I still don't think it's unreasonable

Again, none of this applies for styles beyond 3-7% golden beer fermented with yeast only, and even then there's a few exceptions for certain styles where the aromatics are different (eg bitter, which is less about the aromatic hops and more about the earthy notes of the bittering hops), but for the most popular lagers and pale ales I think it holds

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The issue is that just based on the history you've mentioned I can't say much about the status today. What developments have happened over the last two decades with more advanced methods? How much of the research is shared between countries, how much of the plants etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hops are highly sensitive to the soil acidity and minerals in terms of the compounds the plants produce, so sharing plants is largely infeasible, plus because it's the US many of them are trademarked so there's no sharing for that reason

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Surely fertilizer and other additions can be used to adjust this, or genetic editing can be used to incorporate some stuff?

Okay, but almost everything is trademarked, doesn't mean it can't be bought/sold?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

That's a lot of expense compared to just importing US-grown hops, as there's a lot of soil to adjust

And yeah, trademarks on plants are no joke, there's a bunch of restrictions on buying/selling them etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Do they do factory tours?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

As long as you called it Trump Piss.

[–] nialv7 16 points 1 day ago

that "original" is translated from somewhere as well. did this meme go full circle?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, there's some HFCS bullshit, but mostly storebought lemonade seems to be just lemon juice and cane sugar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Because of food safety regulations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Food safety regulations don't ban dilution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't wanna get into a fight over this, but they do regulate dilution. At least where I'm from.

It can only be called "juice" if it has got at least x% of juice in it. If it's made from concentrate, it says so on the front.

Companies mustn't lie about the percentage of juice content and all ingredients are listed on the back in order of content.

In the UK, there's a sugar tax, so that's another form of regulation.

Customers may decide whether they want to buy 25% or 100% juice, but this competition only works because of the rules I listed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I couldn't help myself...

Edit - probably should have left "Reality:" in. See revised meme below.

[–] renzev 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To all the people downvoting: plastering the political compass in contexts where it makes no fucking sense is a kind of ironic humor meant to highlight the reductive nature of judging political ideology by two axes. It's a shitpost, and a top-tier one at that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

- Immanuel Kant, Critic of the political compass shitposts

[–] Frozengyro 18 points 1 day ago

I think it's more like

Red: State owned brewery is best

Blue: I diluted mine for more profit

Green: mine is just piss (horny)

Yellow: mine is just piss (no sanitation laws)

Memes

Rules:

THE GAME