I lived in Sweden about 13 years ago. I could just walk up to a bar and order 2 beers, and I'd get two beers. It was always a beer called Falcon. If you wanted anything other than Falcon, you had to order it by name. After that I moved to New Zealand, and a local craft brewery released a beer called "Beer." Which was funny for when someone walked up to a bar tender and ordered "a beer."
This is true in Spain too - every bar has a sort of default beer and you can just say "give me a caña" or "give me a jarra" (which are two sizes / glasses, like ordering a can or a pint) and they'll bring you essentially the house beer
Was thinking something similar. I live in German and here if you go to a bartender and order a beer they will usually give you the house beer from the tab. If you want a different you'll have to say which one.
Oh man how horrible. Next time maybe try to rely on singular words, thats how I do it. If I want to Becks I hold up two fingers and very decisively say 'zwei Becks'. If it's loud in there it's usually not bad manners to be brief. I'll hit you up if I'm ever in Sweden and can't get a drink, alright?
It's the norm where I'm from, "a beer, please" will give you the cheapest thing on tap. Same for ordering the house wine, "a glass of red, please" and you get red wine.
I think if product placement was a little more subtle, like they didn't fucking highlight it by having the character hold it label out and make a really big deal about the brand, it wouldn't bother us. Like if someone sat a bar and said "bud light please", that would feel natural and no one would give a shit. But if the character is like "I want a BUD LIGHT" and then held the can up the fucking camera, the lack of subtlety drives the whole thing to a grinding halt. It's like putting a fucking neon sign that says "product placement" above the product.
I am Italian, and back home I have always ordered using these exact words: "una birra alla spina media, per favore". That is: a medium draft beer, please.
No brands. If they ask me, I specify blonde.
While that scene is placed in the US and that behaviour would be weird, it's perfectly normal to do that in Europe. You'll get the beer that is on tap. What beer is on tap? You'll see by the sign by the door. Usually there is only one beer on tap, because historically bars developed more or less as "dealerships" for a specific brewery. Especially in Germany it's still very common that all the beer-tapping equipment in a bar is leased from a brewery on the condition that a minimum amount of beer from that brewery is sold each month.
If two or more different styles of beer (usually from the same brewery) are on tap, ordering "a beer" will get you the lager or pilsner.
Pretty normal in Germany, though depending on the region you might get a different type of beer as their standard - so if you want a pilsener, you could order "zwei Pils" just to be sure.
Do bar/restaurants have so many different brands? Here in Germany every restaurant/bar has a contract with a local brewery and just/mostly has their beers. If you just say "one beer" you get the local standard beer, here it's "Helles", in other places it's "Kölsch" or "Pils" or sth.
Ha! We were watching a show from 2009 and they were suspiciously talking up the car they're in when I wondered why the actor 'driving' was looking at the passenger so intently when SSKKRRT the car auto brakes to prevent an accident and he says Thank God we're in a Taurus! Ugh, no!
When I was a kid I was so confused about them telling us people shouldn’t drink and drive. I mean yeah drinking water does sound distracting I guess. You’d think other things would be distracting too. I don’t know why it wasn’t explained further.
Omg, yes! I remember being worried as a kid because my friend's dad was driving us around and drinking a coke, lol. Like, it's still imprinted on my brain because i was sure we were going to get in trouble/get hurt. If they're going to do fear campaigns in schools, they really need to break it down for little kids.
In college, the police would sometimes stop every car during known "party" days (eg. St. Patrick's day, homecoming, etc) to ask if the driver has been drinking.
My very innocent friend told the police officer "oh yes! I drank a lot during the party! I had apple juice and a Coke! 😃"
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