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Raleel said:
I should go find myself a bit of bloat with coconut milk. What do we call coconut milk instead of milk? It comes in a container, so maybe elixir? It’s made of the flesh mixed with hot water, so maybe a stew? Quick, someone think of a pretentious rpg word for this
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Coconut concoction, of course!
 
I just have to point out that oat milk is a vile abomination that needs to be eradicated! The aftertaste is the work of someone worse than Satan.

Almond milk and coconut milk are known to be infinitely superior. While Cashew milk is the true king when it comes to these creamy nut squeezings.
 
NinjaWeasel said:
I just have to point out that oat milk is a vile abomination that needs to be eradicated! The aftertaste is the work of someone worse than Satan.

Almond milk and coconut milk are known to be infinitely superior. While Cashew milk is the true king when it comes to these creamy nut squeezings.
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That's gold. Solid gold I tell ya!! The rest of it is a blasphemous pack of lies of course, but in the balance you win.
 
NinjaWeasel said:
I just have to point out that oat milk is a vile abomination that needs to be eradicated! The aftertaste is the work of someone worse than Satan.

Almond milk and coconut milk are known to be infinitely superior. While Cashew milk is the true king when it comes to these creamy nut squeezings.
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We really need an ick emoji while we're on the emoji-train.
 
If you add in black coffee as the third point on the triangle, this was my staple diet through my 20s. Nowadays I don't smoke. Nearly as much. But black coffee and booze, man, if ever there was proof that the universe is made out of love, they're pretty high on the list.

 
Agemegos said:
In the day of state-based brewing markets (several of them effectively monopolies) it was "Why do Queenslanders drink XXXX?"
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That sentiment certainly holds just as true with Tooheys for NSW and VB for Victoria as well !!!

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(It does actually have some merit for XXXX Bitter and Gold, but XXXX Dry isn't too bad)
 
Mankcam said:
That sentiment certainly holds just as true with Tooheys for NSW and VB for Victoria as well !!!

:grin:

(It does actually have some merit for XXXX Bitter and Gold, but XXXX Dry isn't too bad)
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There were some great XXXX ads in the UK when I was a young 'un, with the Crocodile Dundee bloke. It was a golden age of booze advertising. Never met anyone who's drank the beer though.
 
JAMUMU said:
There were some great XXXX ads in the UK when I was a young 'un, with the Crocodile Dundee bloke. It was a golden age of booze advertising. Never met anyone who's drank the beer though.
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You"ll meet far more aussies drinking XXXX in Australia than you ever find drinking Fosters, although the majority will be Queenslanders

(There's quite a wide range of low, regular, and premimum beers in Australia. Despite that, there's still a friendly rivalry between the states of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria over each different state's classic regular 'workman' beers)
 
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JAMUMU said:
There were some great XXXX ads in the UK when I was a young 'un, with the Crocodile Dundee bloke. It was a golden age of booze advertising. Never met anyone who's drank the beer though.
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It was a completely forgettable pale lager, so right in the mainstream of Australasian beer at the time. I assume it's much the same now, twenty years on since I last had any.
 
philig said:
A stronger case for taking your coffee without cream has never been made than this:
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This is such a killer performance. Probably watched it over 20 times and still love it. You can see how hard everyone is vibing in it.
 
Sharrow said:
It was a completely forgettable pale lager, so right in the mainstream of Australasian beer at the time. I assume it's much the same now, twenty years on since I last had any.
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Yep its a crisp pale mid-stength workmans ale. It's the cheapie standard beer in Queensland, no better or worse than the cheap standard beers in other states, such as VB in Victoria, or Tooheys in New South Wales.
The kind of beer that tradie's will have a few of at lunch or after work. There are better versions of all of these beers, but the workmen usually just go for the standard ales.

XXXX, like all Australian ales, is meant to be poured cold, not warm, but I'm not sure how it is served overseas. I think USA is similar in this fashion, but I have been told that many beers are served warm in the UK, and this is completely different to down here where beer is always chilled - warm beer is viewed as not worth drinking, so that may be quite different elsewhere.

It would be a joke even considering promoting XXXX overseas these days when there are so many good Australian premimums and crafts beers about.
Not just Australia, I think premimum beers have certainly increased everywhere, not to mention craft beers and microbrewerys and such.
Although the real joke is Fosters still being drank overseas as a aussie beer, that is quite amusing, considering it's not all that common down here.

Wow, what thread is this again?
Mythic Polynesia?
A contentious thread in late December, and now it's derailed to the point of alcoholic beverage discussion.
Yep, that can only happen here :shade:
 
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Mankcam said:
Yep its a crisp pale mid-stength workmans ale. It's the cheapie standard beer in Queensland, no better or worse than the cheap standard beers in other states, such as VB in Victoria, or Tooheys in New South Wales.
The kind of beer that tradie's will have a few of at lunch or after work. There are better versions of all of these beers, but the workmen usually just go for the standard ales.

XXXX, like all Australian ales, is meant to be poured cold, not warm, but I'm not sure how it is served overseas. I think USA is similar in this fashion, but I have been told that many beers are served warm in the UK, and this is completely different to down here where beer is always chilled - warm beer is viewed as not worth drinking, so that may be quite different elsewhere.
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So far as I know, pale lagers like this are drunk cold in the UK too. They certainly are in NZ. I thought XXXX was about the same as the NZ equivalents, though these days tradies, etc. seem to drink Steinlager and Heinekin as much or more - when they started doing that these beers were slightly more expensive. Now they cost much the same, a fair reflection of their actual quality.

There are a ton of better beers here now. Hell, you can walk into the supermarket and look at rows upon rows of beers you've never heard of. Some of them are even quite good.
 
Only proper craft beers are drunk not chilled in the UK. Just about every imported beer is drunk chilled. That includes european and US beers as well as theoccasional Aussie beer even though those are brewed in the UK nowadays.
 
Mankcam said:
XXXX, like all Australian ales, is meant to be poured cold, not warm, but I'm not sure how it is served overseas. I think USA is similar in this fashion, but I have been told that many beers are served warm in the UK, and this is completely different to down here where beer is always chilled - warm beer is viewed as not worth drinking, so that may be quite different elsewhere.
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I've heard the claim that the English drink warm beer many times during the course of my life. Strangely, in 30 years of going to pubs, bars, and clubs in England I've never been served a warm beer. Ales, stouts and bitters have always been chilled (at the very least) and lagers have always been cold. I used to think that maybe it was a London thing (being a dweller of the north), this warm beer, but I've been to London many, many times now and I've never had a warm beer there either! I find it puzzling where the idea originated from.
 
Vile Traveller said:
Pre-refrigeration times.
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I'm pretty sure we got refrigeration at the same time as the US and Australia though!

Maybe it's a World War 2 thing? Lots of power cuts and, I'm sure, energy rationing going on in those days. I'm sure there was a lot of warm, or warmer than ideal, beer being served. Add in a lot of American, Canadian, and other foreign troops being stationed here. From there the idea could spread.
 
NinjaWeasel said:
I've heard the claim that the English drink warm beer many times during the course of my life. Strangely, in 30 years of going to pubs, bars, and clubs in England I've never been served a warm beer. Ales, stouts and bitters have always been chilled (at the very least) and lagers have always been cold. I used to think that maybe it was a London thing (being a dweller of the north), this warm beer, but I've been to London many, many times now and I've never had a warm beer there either! I find it puzzling where the idea originated from.
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Well I certainly know where the idea originated from - Englishmen !!!
Well, Englishmen Abroad in any case, heh heh

I've heard it numerous times from English ex-pats in Australia that the best beers in England are served at room temperature, not cold

One of my older workmates grew up in Barnet, London, and later Norwich and Southwold and he's told me numerous times.
One of his favourite beers is Adnams Broadside, and he goes back to The Lord Nelson in Southwold every time he's over there just to drink Broadside warm
Last year he returned from a West Country trip (Somerset & Cornwall), and he's given me some traditional Scrumpy Cider as a gift, but insists I drink it at room temperature - not bloody likely !!!

I'll probably try that cider on the weekend, and it will definately be chilled
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Someone will likely show up soon and tell us all about their experiences drinking Kava, and this will swing the thread back towards the tracks, heh heh
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Mankcam said:
Well I certainly know where the idea originated from - Englshmen !!!
Well, Englishmen abroad in any case, heh heh
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How bizarre...

Well that sounds like it's maybe more of a broader "Southern" thing then. Which, of course, is quite different to being a London thing. I've never known a beer served warm in all my life though (I've been going to pubs regularly since I turned 16 back in 1993) and I have spent many a night in the South. Even craft ales are kept cool in my experience. If I was ever served a beer (I don't drink cider) at room temperature it would be met by a frown and some grumbling at best. More likely a complaint.
 
Mankcam said:
The kind of beer that tradie's will have a few of at lunch or after work. There are better versions of all of these beers, but the workmen usually just go for the standard ales.
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Beer is one of those things where there's both "low quality" and "bad", with a fairly large gulf between them; which is the best right there really depends on the occasion as much as anything.
 
Ossian said:
I grew up as a Mormon and we weren’t allowed to drink coffee. I had my first coffee in Las Vegas when I was a teenager. And now? Not only am I no longer a Mormon, but I attend the church with the best coffee in town.
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The UU Church down the way has AMAZING coffee.

They also host the best open mic night every Thursday. There is no better sound space for acoustic guitar and voice than a modest-sized church. For reals.
 
NinjaWeasel said:
I just have to point out that oat milk is a vile abomination that needs to be eradicated! The aftertaste is the work of someone worse than Satan.

Almond milk and coconut milk are known to be infinitely superior. While Cashew milk is the true king when it comes to these creamy nut squeezings.
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One does not talk shit about the Blood of the Oat.

Just so you know ... I have a horde of rabid geese at the ready. Are you sure you want to commit to that statement?

- Although on reread, I see "creamy nut squeezings" and I guess I have to forgive your previous trespass.
 
ReluctantGM said:
One does not talk shit about the Blood of the Oat.

Just so you know ... I have a horde of rabid geese at the ready. Are you sure you want to commit to that statement?

- Although on reread, I see "creamy nut squeezings" and I guess I have to forgive your previous trespass.
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Oats are for porridge. Possibly for certain kinds of biscuit. Presumably one can ferment them and make alcoholic beverages. But to pretend that they came from the teats of a cow? Heresy of the burning kind.
 
Mankcam said:
It would be a joke even considering promoting XXXX overseas these days when there are so many good Australian premimums and crafts beers about.
Not just Australia, I think premimum beers have certainly increased everywhere, not to mention craft beers and microbrewerys and such.
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That is interesting that it is a worldwide phenomenon, it happened in the US because of changes in Federal law. In the late 1970s a ban on home brewing beer that had been in place since Prohibition (1919) was repealed.
Then in the 1980s restrictive alcohol distribution laws were relaxed which helped small breweries and wineries gain access to the marketplace. These changes made it easier for small breweries to get established (home brewers going pro) and then get into stores.

I am assuming it happened in other countries for different reasons.

Mankcam said:
Wow, what thread is this again?
Mythic Polynesia?
A contentious thread in late December, and now it's derailed to the point of alcoholic beverage discussion.
Yep, that can only happen here :shade:
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We should be talking about Mythic Spam to keep things on topic.
 
NinjaWeasel said:
How bizarre...

Well that sounds like it's maybe more of a broader "Southern" thing then. Which, of course, is quite different to being a London thing. I've never known a beer served warm in all my life though (I've been going to pubs regularly since I turned 16 back in 1993) and I have spent many a night in the South. Even craft ales are kept cool in my experience. If I was ever served a beer (I don't drink cider) at room temperature it would be met by a frown and some grumbling at best. More likely a complaint.
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It's not a southern thing. No one actually serves beer warm, but cask ales not refrigerated. The cask is generally going to be in a cellar which should be cooler than the bar, so they'll usually be served at a temperature around 12-13 degrees. That's what people mean when they talk about warm English beer.
 
NinjaWeasel said:
How bizarre...

Well that sounds like it's maybe more of a broader "Southern" thing then. Which, of course, is quite different to being a London thing. I've never known a beer served warm in all my life though (I've been going to pubs regularly since I turned 16 back in 1993) and I have spent many a night in the South. Even craft ales are kept cool in my experience. If I was ever served a beer (I don't drink cider) at room temperature it would be met by a frown and some grumbling at best. More likely a complaint.
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A country drinking warm beer is something to be concerned about, so your post fills me with hope that England isn't as eccentric as the stories say, heh heh

My mother's side of the family migrated from Somerset back in the late 1800s, and I intend to do a 'grand tour' of England in a few years time, so knowing I can find cold beer is comforting to say the least!
:grin:
 
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