#hamm's beer

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Hamm's Beer

Hamm's Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4.7% ABV

The can itself says, "The beer... refreshing!" and that's... I'm sure somewhere it's refreshing, but to me it just tastes like the second step above Natty Ice. Not that that's a bad thing; Natty Ice is wonderful for what it does.

Whatever that may be.

This brew is certainly not something to call home about, but the food stalls at the Anaheim Packing House do seem to love it. This is precisely what you think of when you think of a brew from Wisconsin.

6/10 paws

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Friday's temperature check (procès-verbaux of 4-12)

Who remembers former Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.  She famously said at her Senate confirmation hearing that guns are necessary in schools to protect against grizzly bears.  Well, what about mountain lions?  In the small town of Moses Lake, Washington, an ordinary day at Groff Elementary School took a surprising turn. The routine morning transformed into a scene of mild terror as reports of a mountain lion sighting near the school grounds emerged.  The sighting of a mountain lion, was taken seriously, given the setting in the Pacific Northwest, a region familiar with wildlife encounters. So, short on guns, but long on safety protocols, the school was promptly placed on lockdown. However, as the situation unfolded, the true nature of the ‘threat’ revealed itself. The mountain lion turned out to be a fat cat eating a rat.  Of course, you probably wouldn’t want mountain lions, rats, or even fat feral cats running around among kindergarteners, as tasty as they might be.  This is not the only case of Washingtonians and mistaken identity. Well, that goes without saying and we know the reason.  Washington’s famous Olympia Beer’s coined this slogan in 1902, "It's the Water".  Then last week, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) investigated a sighting of the eponymous cryptid near Ground Mound in Washington.  

The sighting, by a group of motorcyclists passing through South Thurston County, spotted a figure running on a ridge half a mile ahead of them.  According to the report given to the BFRO, “It was very large and human-shaped. It was one color, tan/brown, moving across very rugged terrain, making a beeline for the tree line.”  The group watched the figure run for 30 seconds before it left their vision.  “It moved so fluently with little arm movement, unlike a human running,” the motorcyclist said. “It easily was 10 feet tall for us to be able to see it from so far away.” 

And they were half right. It was a high school cross-country athlete using his running app which confirmed he was the Bigfoot in question, and he promised to stop going for runs in his gorilla suit and stilts.  While Washington State tops the nation in what the BFRO deems “credible” bigfoot sightings, with 708, the student-runner says he has never seen the mythical creature while running.  Hopefully, he didn’t hydrate with that kooky Washington water.  He could go for Hamm’s beer, it’s from the “land of sky-blue waters”.  However, drinking Hamm’s leads to mistaken sightings of another mythical creature, a victorious Chicago Bear.

Stay safe!

Tom

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Hello I'd love for you to assign me an American state to replace my Australian one please!

it is with great pleasure that i bestow upon you my highly-biased decision to assign you the american state of...

here's some fun facts! -michigan is the only us state that has two parts, a lower peninsula (where most of the population resides) and an upper peninsula (who everyone affectionately refers to as "yoopers"). you'd think this would result in a rivalry with the state that's connected to the UP, but actually, most people fucking hate ohio, one of the states directly underneath us.

-the fun thing about the shape of michigan is if anyone ever asks you to specify the location of somewhere within the state, you can simply hold up your hand to mimic the shape of it and point. everyone does this and it's very cute and efficient every time.

-michigan is called the Wolverine State even tho it hasn't had a confirmed stable population of the creatures since French fur trappers first started killing wildlife to sell for hats and coats ~200 years ago. we do got a FUCK ton of white tail deer though, and deer hunting season is a big enough deal here that in more rural areas, the first day of hunting season can be an excused absence from school.

-if you haven't heard of the great lakes before i highly recommend reading at least the wikipedia article about them. they are the second largest group of freshwater lakes on the whole planet and contain 21% of all of earth's freshwater. so when the inevitable water wars come, we're like, so set.

-you must root for the detroit lions. everyone roots for the detroit lions. when the detroit lions lose, everyone mourns. the detroit lions suffer for our sins, and we both resent and love them for their strife.

-detroit isn't scary. people will say it's crime-ridden but they're just racist and hate homeless folks. be very defensive of detroit at all times.

-michigan's three largest indigenous tribes are the Ojibwe, the Ottowa, and the Potawatomi. michigan is chock full of native names and it rules. say em with me: Tecumseh. Mackinaw. Okemos. Kalamazoo. Ypsilanti is a fun one too but named after a greek dude so i don't count that one

-i do regret to inform you that people up here get real defensive about three very unimportant things: calling it "pop" and not "soda", the assertion that our potholes are the worst in the country, and the application of ranch dressing on pizza. i leave it up to you which side of each fence you choose to lie upon.

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1956 Hamm’s Beer advertisement

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota

(Photo from 2013 or so)

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MY FRIENDS AND I MADE A FORT OUT OF 100 HAMMS CASES AND CALLED IT HAMMFURT. IT WAS EQUIPPED WITH VENT HOLES ON THE CEILING, SHELVES IN THE SUPPORT PILLARS, A TRAP DOOR TO GRAB HAMMS OUT OF THE MINI FRIDGE, SPECIAL PAPER ON THE WALLS FOR AMBIANCE LIGHTING AND A MASSIVE FRONT DOOR. IT SAT 3 PEOPLE COMFORTABLY. WHEN WE WERE DONE WITH IT I TRIED TO PUT IT ON CRAIGSLIST TO TRADE FOR COLD CASES OF HAMMS BUT ULTIMATELY DIDN’T HAVE ANY TAKERS SO WE ENDED UP BURNING THE BAD BOY DOWN. I HAVE SINCE SAVED ANOTHER 100 HAMMS CASES AND PLAN TO BUILD HAMMFURT 2.0.

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