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Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah
- TMWNN 5mo agoIs Schlitz the beer company that Laverne and Shirley work for before moving to LA?
- EA-3167 5mo agoThat was Hasenpfeffer Incorporated, as per the intro song.
- bryanrasmussen 5mo agonope, sorry had to correct that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254643
- EA-3167 5mo agoI thought it was an obvious joke given the reference to the song! “Shlemeil, schlimazel, Hasenpfeffer incorporated”
- bryanrasmussen 5mo agoah ok, I thought you were being serious.
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- bryanrasmussen 5mo agoThey worked at the Shotz brewery, an obvious Schlitz standin. Hasenpfeffer is a yiddish dish, here is a video familiar to some older generations of someone who wants to eat some Hasenpfeffer https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdXm-cb2cjQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=OdXm-cb2cjQ Why is it Hasenpfeffer Incorporated in the jump rope rhyme they are singing as they skip down the street? Probably because at least one of the characters is supposed to be Jewish, can't remember which one, they also sing Schlemiel, Schlamazel - unsure of spelling, which are both Yiddish words, although only Schlemiel is somewhat familiar to the public.
- mistrial9 5mo agono, Hasenpfeffer is not exclusively a yiddish dish AFAIK
- buescher 5mo agoI guess it could be if you left out the bacon… and the rabbit.
- FarmerPotato 5mo agoI’m not certain, though I have been to the Laverne and Shirley temple in Sprecher Brewery, but: Hassenpfeffer sounds like a play on Harnischfegger, a maker of heavy construction equipment in Milwaukee. Trivia: One of Henry Harnischfeger’s customers was Pabst Brewing Co. Harnischfeger ran itself into the ground in the 90s. I worked in their headquarters for more than a decade. That building is prime real estate and became an FBI office.
- ahartmetz 5mo agoHasenpfeffer is also a French and German dish - it might be considered Jewish in the US because it's especially popular in Jewish culture there? It's unlike gefilte fish which is AFAIK considered Jewish everywhere.
- fortran77 5mo agoJews don't eat hare. Hasenpfeffer is not a "Yiddish" word.
- fortran77 5mo agoAs a native Yiddish speaker (it was my first language!) I can assure you that "Hasenpfeffer" is not a Yiddish dish, it is rabbit and most definitely _treif_. Yiddish speakers would not eat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenpfeffer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasenpfeffer Shleimiel and Shlmazal are yiddish, via Hebrew. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C#Yiddish https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9... and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%9C#Yiddish https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9...
- basch 5mo agoBuried at the end of the article is the real story. "Schlitz" hasn't existed since the early 70's. They cut costs and ruined the formula and brand. In 2008 it was "revived" and a new beer took the name. Now someone else is brewing a completely different reconstructed formula for "the last batch" and throwing the name on it, again. And im sure itll happen again and again after that.
- FarmerPotato 5mo agoI remember a cartoon of college kids opening beer cans. “Beers that say their own name:” Schlitz! Pabst! Busch! Blatz!
- schumpeter 5mo agoDid I hallucinate drinking it in high school around 92-94?
- throwaway041207 5mo agoNo, it was around but it was probably just Stroh's in the can at that point. I drank a ton of it at a dollar a can in the early 00's (RIP J&J's Pizza, Denton, TX). This would have been after the PBR buy out and it was probably whatever the Stroh's formula was. I drank a bunch of these PBR owned zombie brands over the last 20 years, Black Label, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, etc [1] and I've always wondered when I'm drinking one if it's the same flavor as one from previous years or even if the flavor is consistent across regions (assuming PBR was just slapping labels on contracted brewing). [1] https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/447/ https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/447/
- iamjs 5mo agoWow. Never thought I'd see J&J's come up on HN, but as soon as I saw the title, I was intrigued for exactly this reason. I was there too in the early 00's. Small world.
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- khazhoux 5mo agoAt my house, my dad always drank Schmidt’s Gay. Before the divorce, that is.
- GuestFAUniverse 5mo agoHe never liked "Schlitz". (Germans might understand why. And yes, that joke risks sounding misogynistic.)
- daverol 5mo agoWho can forget the CEO Francis J. Sellinger and his 'Taste My Schlitz' commercials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPxny7no4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPxny7no4c
- ahartmetz 5mo agoWell, by that time German immigration to the midwest was long enough ago that nobody could still understand it, I guess.
- genxy 5mo agoI brought a case with me to Germany for a house party. It was a hit. I even got my mini mart to start carrying it, made me chuckle to see other dipshits buying it.
- bookofjoe 5mo agoGrowing up in Milwaukee in the 1950s/60s, "Schlitz — The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" was so ubiquitous that it created a permanent engram in my brain. The slogan was in giant animated brightly lighted letters on the tallest building in downtown Milwaukee.
- cf100clunk 5mo ago''The beer that made Milt Famy walk us'' https://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/miltfamyjoke.htm https://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/miltfamyjoke.htm
- cowboylowrez 5mo ago"When you're out of Bud, tough Schlitz"
- pretzellogician 5mo agoNot to be forgotten, Steely Dan's unreleased jingle for Schlitz: https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/listen-to-steely-dans-long-lost-schlitz-jingle-from-the-early-70s/ https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/listen-to-steely-dans-long...