Boycott America!

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by GringoTex, Mar 25, 2003.

  1. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
    1301 miles de Texas
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....CRBAELCFEY?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2446136

    BERLIN (Reuters) - No more Coca-Cola or Budweiser, no Marlboro, no American whiskey or even American Express cards -- a growing number of restaurants in Germany are taking everything American off their menus to protest the war in Iraq.

    Although the protests are mainly symbolic, waiters in dozens of bars and restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bonn and other German cities are telling patrons, "Sorry, Coca-Cola is not available any more due to the current political situation."
     
  2. joseph pakovits

    joseph pakovits New Member

    Apr 29, 1999
    fly-over country
    So I can't smoke a Freiheit Cigarette while drinking a Freiheit Beer?
     
  3. Nico Limmat

    Nico Limmat Member+

    Oct 24, 1999
    Dubai, UAE
    Club:
    Grasshopper Club Zürich
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Those inhabitants of Old Europe sure learn fast...
     
  4. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    Can you still get a burger with Freedom Cheese on it?
     
  5. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    This goes too far.

    I'm gonna organize a boycott of all the sick internet p*rn germany exports. That'll bring them to their senses.
     
  6. fishbiproduct

    fishbiproduct New Member

    Mar 29, 2002
    Pasadena Ca.
    Not related to Germany, but speaking of
    going too far and being a complete idiot
    in the process ( read the transcript, I find it
    hilarious):
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81280,00.html

    And I won't mention "freedom fries", "freedom
    toast", etc...Oh, I just did.
     
  7. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    New Caledonia
    They sell Budweiser in Germany?
    hahaha
     
  8. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    Do they charge more because it's an import?
     
  9. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    You don't have to worry about Americans joining this boycott. Everything here is made in China.
     
  10. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    They were charging 3 or 4 quid a pint in the UK. Probably no different in germany.
     
  11. joseph pakovits

    joseph pakovits New Member

    Apr 29, 1999
    fly-over country
    The Bud in Europe is not the same as the Bud over here. The Bud in Europe is brewed in Ireland and doesn't suck as bad. Still, why you'd drink anything but German beer in Germany is beyond me. Must be Amercian tourists and GIs.
     
  12. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    For Budweiser?!?!? You should buy motor oil for that price. It's probably cheaper and definitely tastes better.
     
  13. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    That's like saying getting stabbed isn't as bad as getting shot.

    It may be true, but it's still not pretty.
     
  14. amerifolklegend

    Jul 21, 1999
    Oakley, America
    It's notsomuch that as it is people trying to look cool. It's from America.

    Look at all the people here that drink Heineken. God knows they don't drink it because it taste good.
     
  15. Shurik

    Shurik New Member

    Nov 2, 1999
    Baltimore, MD
    The real Budweiser is brewed in Czech Republic, in the city of Ceske Budejovice, the German name for which is Budweis.
    The American product of the same name is, of course, a cheap fake, the quality of which make it very, very easy to boycott.
     
  16. Mel Brennan

    Mel Brennan AN INTERVIDUAL

    Apr 8, 2002
    Club:
    Paris Saint Germain FC
    Lol great point.
     
  17. amerifolklegend

    Jul 21, 1999
    Oakley, America
    Yeah yeah yeah. I love when idiots want to point this out like nobody knows it.

    Budweiser is the greatest thing that ever happened to Budvar. Without this controversy, Budvar would be nothing.
     
  18. csc7

    csc7 New Member

    Jul 3, 2002
    DC
    great! more people acting like children.
     
  19. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    So so wrong
     
  20. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    New Caledonia
    Adolphus Busch was from Germany, so we should boycott Budweiser too.
     
  21. amerifolklegend

    Jul 21, 1999
    Oakley, America
    Yet true nonetheless.

    Heineken in America is skunked and stale. It always has been - it always will be. It just isn't a pleasant beer to drink.
     
  22. joseph pakovits

    joseph pakovits New Member

    Apr 29, 1999
    fly-over country
    Advertising works just as well over there as over here. *sigh*

    Bud also sometimes cheaper than the good stuff. So maybe I should ammend my previous statement to "American tourists, GIs and college kids and other people drinking for quantity and not quality."

    OK?
     
  23. joseph pakovits

    joseph pakovits New Member

    Apr 29, 1999
    fly-over country
    Top three things to use to hijack a thread:

    Monty Python

    Beer

    Blazing Saddles
     
  24. monop_poly

    monop_poly Member

    May 17, 2002
    Chicago
    A Soldier and a Patriot

    In defense of my country, I have delayed a planned purchase of a Dachshund (sp?).
     

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