tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post113700472086515073..comments2023-10-10T07:12:55.445-05:00Comments on City of Tiny Lights: Booze and Tobacco: Notes From The FrontWill Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695153396800974213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9958233.post-1137427687703861682006-01-16T10:08:00.000-06:002006-01-16T10:08:00.000-06:00What the??? Missouri is banning the sale of cold ...What the??? Missouri is banning the sale of cold beer????<BR/><BR/>Kudos to the Show Me State.<BR/><BR/>What's that you say? Jenks has gone off the deep end? Jenks has suddenly turned liberal (*shudder*) and thinks that the government should micromanage to the point of telling you at what temperature your beer should be sold?<BR/><BR/>HELL NO!<BR/><BR/>Any self-respecting beer drinker knows that cold beer is bad. Very bad. Beer should be kept on the shelves, hopefully somewhere not brilliantly lit, at around 50 to 60 degrees (at or slightly cooler than room temp). It shouldn't be slung into cases at 40 degrees.<BR/><BR/>Cold liquid chills your tastebuds, thus rendering them unable to actually taste the beer. While this is how MOST people who drink beer prefer it (people who tell me that Bud Light tastes good make me wonder why they even bother), it's enough to make any beer advocate shudder (a la my response to being called a liberal).<BR/><BR/>However, the point being made here is that, no, it won't deter Cletus and Clumpus from cracking open that ice cold Bud for the ride home, or better yet, Coors Light, the "coldest" tasting beer.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, how does cold taste? Like Brandi Smith, the coldest bitch from Huntington North High School's class of 1995...not that I would know how THAT tastes. *shifty-eyed*<BR/><BR/>Back on topic...from the point of view of curbing drunk driving by outlawing cold beer is just plain silly. Otherwise, I applaud the notion of selling beer at the <I>appropriate</I> temperature. Let the unenlightened freeze their beer on their own time.<BR/><BR/>As for banning the sale of tobacco...pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease don't do that. You'll kill my state's economy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com