Imbibio ergo sum: I drink therefore I am. 'Time' July 28, 2008 Verbatim: " If Budweiser is made by a different country. I don't drink Budweiser anymore.I'll go back to Wild Turkey." said Jordan Moore, 21-year-old resident of St. Louis, Mo., on the $52 billion sale of iconic American brewery Anheuser-Busch to InBev NV of Belgium. Wild Turkey is owned by French company Pernod Ricard SA. The Budweiser sale: The end of American beer? "Truth be told," writes 'The Week,' in its August 1, 2008, issue, " it was 'not great beer," said Bob Kerr in 'The Providence Journal-Bulletin,' but "it was adequate," and it was ours. Not only was Budweiser the first beer many Americans ever tasted, it was a symbol of America itself. In those massive Clydesdales we saw the strength, noble, and gentleness of the nation we aspired to be. Each swig from this 'King of Beers' was a reminder that we'd thrown off the yoke of monarchy. And then came the news that Anheuser-Busch, with the iconic beer they make and bottle, was sold to Belgium. Yes, that Belgium, said Barb Shelly in 'The Kansas City Star'. The Belgians ' are suspiciously tight with the French,' and wouldn't join our Coalition of the Willing to fight in Iraq. Now these interlopers have swooped in and and snapped up one of our cherished national icons." This, my friends, is the end of the world as we know it." Beer is supposed to make you sentimental, said 'The Dallas Morning News' in an editorial.It is painful to think of 'The King of Beers' kneeling at the feet of foreign potentats, or of oil-rich Arab sheikhs buying the Chrysler building. If you'll pardon the pun, the glass in this case is very much half-full." P.S. Jay Leno from 'Tonight Show,': 'Who says people are not buying 'Made in America' anymore?! Belgium just bought Budweiser, Abu-Dabi bought the Chreisler building in NY, Citicorp, just to mention a few.'
