Generic beer really was a thing in the US. http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/general-generic-beer/7987/ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/general-generic-beer/7987/ I d

Generic beer really was a thing in the US. http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/general-generic-beer/7987/ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/general-generic-beer/7987/ I don't know if generic "Drink" was real or a projection of generic beer. Dunno if it was intentional or not, but this was Mike Nesmith using the "cheepnis" concept Zappa developed in a different way. Zappa meant cheezy rubber-spider horror movie artifacts; I'd say Nesmith was identifying the permanent recession as a driver for punk culture. It also has overtones of "victory gin" from 1984.