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[capitalCORN]

I gotta figure out my in to the hipster crowd. Make that $$$

Castro is the new Che.

 

[Skellig Gra]

And I thought it was bad that PBR got so popular in NYC. That stuff is like champagne compared to Colt.

 

[mckmas8808]

Problem ain't the price.

Problem is the price, coupled with the presentation.

Next thing you know they'll include a free doo-rag and burner to go with it.

Complete the 90's racist ensemble.

What are you doing here Frozenprince? Why are you assoicating 40s in a brown bag to doo-rags and burners? And why would this be racist?

 

[Chichikov]

$15 for a 98¢ bottle of "not even really beer" beer? Yes, that's quite expensive.

You have to consider opportunity cost, margins aren't everything.
A 40 is about 3 drinks, both in terms of volume and of alcohol content (give or take), when someone drink a 40, that's 3 drinks he's not buying. Now yeah, selling it for $4 gives you a great margin, but you're still making $3 on 3 drinks, and that ain't paying the rent or the salary in LA.
And to be clear, I don't think this is okay, far from it, I think it's fucking disgusting, but the issue isn't really the price.

You know they lecture people on the pronunciation of Pho

I have a really good vietnamese friend who has a Pho place in Seattle, she have seen things man...
Whenever I go back we usually go to whatever new fusion pho place the hipsters open up on the hill, good times. They all assume she's mexican because... well, I don't fucking know, I guess because people are fucking clueless about things.

 

[BlackJace]

Steel Reserve hustle when

 

[NervousXtian]

My friends dad drank 40's... he wasn't poor.. he was just a raging alcoholic. He left the bag on too.

 

[mckmas8808]

My friends dad drank 40's... he wasn't poor.. he was just a raging alcoholic. He left the bag on too.

yeah not sure why people confuse 40s and poor people so much.

 

[capitalCORN]

yeah not sure why people confuse 40s and poor people so much.

Because it's largely poor urbans who are associated to it? What do you think the point of a beverage that's tastes furthest from respectable, sold at rock bottom prices for a 40oz is?

 

[Slayven]

Because it's largely poor urbans who are associated to it? What do you think the point of a beverage that's tastes furthest from respectable, sold at rock bottom prices for a 40oz is?

It's not that deep, like most "slumming"

 

[Adam_Vania]

And I thought it was bad that PBR got so popular in NYC. That stuff is like champagne compared to Colt.

nah, PBR is pisswater. at least Colt will eff you up.

 

[Mattlikewhoa]

If I saw Colt 45 in a friend's fridge, I would sit them down and ask if anything was going on.

I agree... That's just straight hobo juice.

 

[DUFFMCWALIN]

Literally across the street from St. Felix you can enter Big Wang's, a significantly less pretentious dive bar where $15 will get you an entire pitcher of actually good beer, or nearly 3 pitchers of the cheap shit.

That doesn't look like a dive bar at all. Dive bars need to be dimly lit with question liquid on the floor.

 

[mckmas8808]

Because it's largely poor urbans who are associated to it? What do you think the point of a beverage that's tastes furthest from respectable, sold at rock bottom prices for a 40oz is?

Now I don't drink alcohol, but I grew up in the middle class suburbs and remember seeing 40s sold in gas stations all the time in the 90s.

I have every reason to believe that people in the area was buying and drinking them there too.

 

[Frozenprince]

What are you doing here Frozenprince? Why are you assoicating 40s in a brown bag to doo-rags and burners? And why would this be racist?

Because the most common association these otherwise wealthy and profoundly out of touch erstwhile people who will order this is one of poverty and race.

If it was just paying more for a liquor that came in a bag it'd be one thing, but there is a profoundly warped racial connotation here that really kinda makes me uncomfortable.

That doesn't look like a dive bar at all. Dive bars need to be dimly lit with question liquid on the floor.

I need to step in piss/vomit at least twice for it to be a proper dive bar.

 

[capitalCORN]

Now I don't drink alcohol, but I grew up in the middle class suburbs and remember seeing 40s sold in gas stations all the time in the 90s.

I have every reason to believe that people in the area was buying and drinking them there too.

You've ever been to Malt liquor and cheese soiree?

That liquor is for passing truckers and promiscuous preteens.

 

[mckmas8808]

Because the most common association these otherwise wealthy and profoundly out of touch erstwhile people who will order this is one of poverty and race.

If it was just paying more for a liquor that came in a bag it'd be one thing, but there is a profoundly warped racial connotation here that really kinda makes me uncomfortable.



I need to step in piss/vomit at least twice for it to be a proper dive bar.

But it's not like they ham it up in the menu using "hippety-hop" 90s lingo with a picture of Snoop Dog beside the price. It honestly could be an ode to what was popular in many parts of L.A. in the 90s.

 

[Holiday]

I used to live next to a gas station that sold a 4 pack of 16-ounce Colt for about 4 bucks. The times I brought that up to the counter were not the proudest moments of my life, I have to say.

 

[capitalCORN]

But it's not like they ham it up in the menu using "hippety-hop" 90s lingo with a picture of Snoop Dog beside the price. It honestly could be an ode to what was popular in many parts of L.A. in the 90s.

You can't expect blackface all the time, but their 'ironically' making commodity out of poverty.

 

[Frozenprince]

But it's not like they ham it up in the menu using "hippety-hop" 90s lingo with a picture of Snoop Dog beside the price. It honestly could be an ode to what was popular in many parts of L.A. in the 90s.

As someone who grew up lower class, hipsters commodifying the "struggle" as some ironic post facto "haha aren't we funny and ironic for turning this into something wealthy people do haha" thing just makes my skin crawl.

Given the audience that purchases things like this, I'm not inclined to grant them the benefit of the doubt that this is supposed to be mundane.

 

[xxracerxx]

A bar in Boise has done this for years, just not at that price.

 

[Pejo]

For $15 it better be Billy Dee Williams himself serving it to me.

"It works every time!"

Lol this is stupid, but the real stupidity lies with the people buying it.

I don't find this any worse than hipsters that claim PBR is the best "value" beer.

Spoiler

They're wrong by the way, it's Old German

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Colt 45 is hobo beer you can get at any gas station for like 2 bucks.

 

[Frozenprince]

I'm just gonna assume this is something you have hanging on your wall.

 

[Slayven]

15 dollars Donald Glover better be serving it

 

[mckmas8808]

You can't expect blackface all the time, but their 'ironically' making commodity out of poverty.

As someone who grew up lower class, hipsters commodifying the "struggle" as some ironic post facto "haha aren't we funny and ironic for turning this into something wealthy people do haha" thing just makes my skin crawl.

Given the audience that purchases things like this, I'm not inclined to grant them the benefit of the doubt that this is supposed to be mundane.

I can see that side too. And you two are probably more right than I am on this.

What was Billy Dee alluding to when he said "It works everytime"?

 

[Frozenprince]

What was Billy Dee alluding to when he said "It works everytime"?

 

[Pejo]

I can see that side too. And you two are probably more right than I am on this.



What was Billy Dee alluding to when he said "It works everytime"?

The Millennium Falcon, obviously.

 

[Joe Spangle]

Im not familiar with this beverage and so i thought a Colt 45 was some sort of gun and the idea of a bar selling a gun in a brown paper bag......

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

I wonder if they let black people into this bar or do they keep them out so the hipsters can make fun of the blacks without being so PC.

 

[capitalCORN]

Im not familiar with this beverage and so i thought a Colt 45 was some sort of gun and the idea of a bar selling a gun in a brown paper bag......

That's probably done too, just off the menu. Somewhere in the world.

 

[hoserx]

I can see that side too. And you two are probably more right than I am on this.



What was Billy Dee alluding to when he said "It works everytime"?

You know what Billy Dee was alluding to.

 

[Trey]

Blue moon for 7 dollars, lmao

 

[XiaNaphryz]

15 dollars Donald Glover better be serving it

You'll get current Billy Dee and like it!

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Or this too

 

[Just_myles]

Where is this place? Malt liquor is like 2 bucks. 10 cents for the bag. This a troll?

I take it the Star Wars fans they mean Billy Dee Williams malt liquor commercials they used to air during soul train. Amirite?

 

[Frozenprince]

You'll get current Billy Dee and like it!

Damn dude looks good for 80.

 

[mckmas8808]

You know what Billy Dee was alluding to.

Crazy to look back at so much Rape Culture advertising back in the day.

Or this too

This is great commentary on those Billy Dee Colt 45 ads. Sucks that it only aired once.

 

[Rest]

Today I learned that those Billy Dee Williams ads for Colt 45 were real. I always thought they were something from some movie, a parody of some real ad.

 

[ghostofsparta]

I honestly wish more places served some malt liquor especially Mickeys. But selling it in a brown paper bag? Give me a damn glass, this aint the hood.

 

[LionPride]

Today I learned that those Billy Dee Williams ads for Colt 45 were real. I always thought they were something from some movie, a parody of some real ad.

Really?

 

[KHlover]

Came in expecting a bar selling pistols.



Disappointed.

^

 

[whatsinaname]

Huh, what's with the fresca ribbing? I am actually drinking one right now...

You know they lecture people on the pronunciation of Pho

Don't you mean Phở?

 

[Pupperbabysassy]

This thread made me watch St Ides ads with gangsta rappers from the 90's.

 

[Matty77]

Huh, what's with the fresca ribbing? I am actually drinking one right now...



Don't you mean Phở?

There's always one, same as the Zima drinkers...

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Today I learned that those Billy Dee Williams ads for Colt 45 were real. I always thought they were something from some movie, a parody of some real ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6J7QtwEyN8

 

[GreatestHits]

Is it cool if I puke all over the place after chugging like I can in the alley? I mean it comes in a paper bag right?

On a slightly more serious note, 40s are for getting.... shit-faced really fast... I don't think that's a subjective thing... why you would promote this.. well I mean look at shit like PBR turn into a self-marketing phenomenon... i guess you gotta fish for the next dumb fad if you're feeling a disturbance in the force and whatnot

 

[FallingEdge]

This happens in Denver as well. Old E for 12 bux.

 

[riotous]

This thread made me watch St Ides ads with gangsta rappers from the 90's.

Schltz had some good ones.

Late at night Snoop Dogg rapping "Schlitz malt liquor, get your bitch wet quicker and your jimmy thicker" on BET.

 

[GhostWriter24]

I still don't understand the outrage ITT. If people want a $15 Colt45, why are you screaming at clouds and resenting it?

 

[Rest]

Really?

Yeah. I wasn't even really sure Colt 45 was real, I've never seen it in person. I always saw bottles of Olde English.