Notes on Food: Part V

I have a feeling that every college campus in America has its own cheap/tastes like piss beer that every student takes to heart, champions, drinks a lot of, loves and hates. A mascot beer. A default beer. I get the impression that at Reed, Pabst Blue Ribbon is that beloved brew.


Aah, PBR. It actually tastes pretty good. I swear. Also I went to a bbq where they marinated chicken pieces for grilling in nothing but PBR, and it tasted heavenly. I swear. Interesting fact: Tim and James finished off 60 cans of PBR between them over the three days of Renn Fayre, (plus extras).

Apparently, PBR had virtually dead sales America-wide, until 2000-ish, when they noticed sales were burgeoning all by themselves in Portland. One bar was selling PBR to skint students and simple working folk, thus beginning an ongoing surge in PBR popularity. I'm pretty sure that this bar was the Lutz, which is up the road from Reed in Woodstock. I have never been there, although I went to the Delta next door a couple of times. I heard that the Lutz was beyond so-bad-it's-good, thus arriving at just plain bad. Or it had unusually sticky carpets or something. But plenty of PBR...