You’re all such good cooks you probably already planned and shopped for the Fourth of July, but here’s union-made you can buy:
Hot dogs
• Ball Park
• Boar’s Head
• Foster Farms
• Hebrew National
• Hofmann
• Oscar Mayer
• Hormel
Sausages:
• Farmland
• Koegel’s
• Gianelli (UFCW)
• Kroger brand (UFCW)
Condiments:
• French’s and Guldens Mustard (UFCW)
• Heinz Ketchup and Catsup (UFCW)
• Lucky Whip
• Hidden Valley Ranch
Buns:
• Sara Lee (UFCW)
• Oroweat
• Arnold
• Stroehmann
Soda & Bottled Water:
• Barq’s Rootbeer, Coke , and Sprite products (UFCW)
• Pepsi
• American Springs and Poland Springs Water (UFCW)
• Pocono Northern Fall’s Water
Beer:
• Bud Light (UFCW)
• Budweiser
• Michelob
• Miller
• Milwaukee’s Best
• Rolling Rock
• Goose Island
Snacks & Desserts:
• Breyers & Good Humor Ice Cream (UFCW)
• Flips pretzels
• Frito-Lay Chips
Supplies:
• Solo cups
• Weber Q grills
• Igloo coolers
I didn’t know this:
EAT UNION!! the fabulous burgers at WENDYS are made by members of UFCW Local 1776 in Pennsylvania for 11 states. Lots of Wendy’s foods are unionmade, the rolls, the fries, the CHILI!, sooo you need a quick bite head to WENDYS!! — with Ufcw SnackUnion.
Trollhattan
Doggy story happy ending–the little Lily lookalike who some cretin shoved into a storm drain is getting her forever home.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2013/07/citrus-heights-woman-brings-home-dog-rescued-from-storm-drain.html
srv
Hmmm. You micro-brewer drinkers must all hate America. I guess that’s why Tim stopped doing the Friday Beer thing.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Actually, I’m about to run out to get burger meat. Spent most of the day dealing with my locavore box. Seriously considering getting another freezer.
I’m seeing new spam at my honeypot email addresses: advertisements for weight loss drugs with a return name (but not address) of Fox News Network. Someone is finally cashing in on the Fox News fans’ well-known gullibility.
The Other Chuck
Is there anything I can actually drink? Actually, I’ve never heard of Goose Island, so maybe that’s ok. And Rolling Rock is at least drinkable, as is fresh badger bile next to Milwaukee’s Best.
gbear
What are the Koch products that we should avoid at all cost? I can’t remember what paper products they make.
The Other Chuck
@gbear: Georgia Pacific.
No idea if Kimberly Clark is any better though, but at least it wouldn’t enrich those two.
mistermix
That beer list is brutal. But Genesee brewery does a lot of contract brewing – I don’t know if they still brew Sam Adams, but they used to.
NickT
For your union-made beer needs:
http://www.unionplus.org/union-made/beers
Kay
@gbear:
I hate that about them, that they aren’t associated with any consumer brand.
Clever, those Koch bros. :)
max
You’re all such good cooks you probably already planned and shopped for the Fourth of July
It’s a Thursday and probably a rainy one – probably gonna watch the The Wire and keep the dogs from freaking out about the fireworks explosions.
I’ve been tending to switch to Nathan’s over Hebrew National (my go-to for a coupla decades) – izzat unionized? Please say yes.
max
[‘Will forward list.’]
Amir Khalid
Interestingly, Wendy’s just discontinued chili in Malaysia. I found out a couple of weeks ago that it’s been replaced with chicken rendang and rice — as if any sane Malaysian would want an American fast food chain’s attempt at Malaysian food.
BGinCHI
But Kay, you forgot to mention what kind of union-made fireworks you can get to blow your fingers off with!
Just Some Fuckhead
Will I get liberal cooties from eating union food?
Just Some Fuckhead
Will I get liberal cooties from eating union food?
NickT
Just for giggles, can anyone hazard a guess as to what the book cover in this article is trying to say:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gop-hopeful-in-colorado-state-senate-recall-wrote
BGinCHI
@The Other Chuck: All craft beer is made with extra love, if not extra benefits.
Yatsuno
@Trollhattan: Yay happy puppeh news!
My dad drinks Canuckstani beers. I’m pretty sure they’re unionised.
The Other Chuck
@Amir Khalid: I’d imagine that the recipe didn’t come from their Ohio corporate HQ, so it’s probably fine enough by local standards.
Violet
@Trollhattan: Oh what a cutie! The woman who adopted her looks so excited and happy, too. Glad that story had a happy ending.
JPL
@The Other Chuck: Anne added a link to a larger list of beers. Do you like O’Doul’s?
There will be few outdoor bbq’s lit in the Atlanta area tomorrow. I’ll probably do hot dogs and hamburgers on Sunday.
Violet
@NickT: What in the world? Those shirtless guys look like they were clipped from a video game from about 2001.
Linnaeus
@Yatsuno:
Yes, at least the larger Canadian brewers, e.g., Molson, Labatt, Moosehead, are. Although Molson merged with Coors, so there’s that.
Elizabelle
Glad to hear about Rolling Rock, although Yuengling is my favorite inexpensive brew.
Great idea about supporting union-made products.
I grimace now when I pass the handsome Brawny man. (Koch Brothers! Georgia Pacific product!) Never again.
Did they ever get Buycott app up and running? (Smartphone app that tells who owns the companies whose products you purchase — or would choose not to.)
MikeJ
Full Sail Brewing in Hood river OR is employee owned, and I think New Belgium of Colorado is too.
Spaghetti Lee
Those are some companies I wouldn’t have expected. Coke, Frito-Lay and Budweiser are unionized? Well, there’s my good news for the day, I guess.
Trollhattan
@Violet:
They seem like a perfect match, don’t they? Was despairing for humanity when I read the initial story last week, so this is the best possible outcome.
Roger Moore
@srv:
Yeah, the guys at New Belgium are a bunch of Socialists. They aren’t union; they’re employee owned.
Violet
Will be grilling tonight. Tomorrow will probably be an exciting day of figuring out why a gate isn’t working properly and taking down some banana trees that are starting to be a problem with an electrical wire. Woo hoo. Friday is a work day, so Thursday is a school night.
Gus
I have a close friend who works at a local craft brewery. I don’t think he’s union, but he’s not complaining, and I like the beer they make, unlike the list above (with the exception of a few Goose Island beers).
Trollhattan
@MikeJ:
Thus, COMMIE!
Surveying the beer landscape we’re in a land of riches compared to the desert of five, ten and especially twenty years ago. One rabidly anti-union brewery I knew of back in the day was Coors, and I have no idea about whatever megacorporation owns them now. But it’s moot because we don’t have to drink any of that crap ever again (except at the occasional ballgame in less-enlightened parks).
MikeJ
Speaking of beer, a quick reminder that Seattle Balloon-juicers will be organizing a piss-up in a brewery on July 13 at the Pike Brewing Company.
BGinCHI
@Gus: Goose Island got bought out, though they still make a few decent things (in comparison to macro brews).
BGinCHI
@Trollhattan: I thought they were still owned by the fascist Coors family. No?
Violet
@Elizabelle:
Apparently it’s up and running now. See this article for a video of it being used. Buycott website.
BGinCHI
@MikeJ: Can you get me an “I Like Pike” button?
It also works for fish in Northern Michigan.
Arclite
The thing is, none of those beers are GOOD beers.
Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Deschutes, Fat Tire, Rogue, etc. etc. Let me know if any of these are union made and I’ll choose one.
MikeJ
@BGinCHI: Wiki says Molson owns them now. Is moose piss a step up or a step down from mountain lion piss?
Linnaeus
@BGinCHI:
Coors and Molson merged in 2005. The families share control of the company.
Trollhattan
@BGinCHI:
Per the, er, always or nearly always right Wikipedia.
“The Coors Brewing Company is a regional division of the world’s seventh-largest[1] brewing company, the Canadian Molson Coors Brewing Company and is the third-largest brewer in the United States.[2] Coors is also renowned for operating the Golden, Colorado brewery, the largest single brewery facility in the world.”
I don’t know what autonomy they may still have in Colorado WRT their workforce and unionization.
Violet
@Arclite: Fat Tire is from the New Belgium Brewing Company. Apparently they are eco-friendly and employee-owned.
Edit: From their FAQ:
Link: http://www.newbelgium.com/brewery/faq.aspx
Betty Cracker
@Elizabelle: I recently started using it. I love the idea of it and hope it expands.
MikeJ
@BGinCHI: Sure thing. You should come out here and fish for pikeminnow. $4 for every fish you catch.
http://www.pikeminnow.org/info.html
LanceThruster
13 companies with the worst record for supporting Israel’s apartheid policies:
1) General Electric
2) Caterpillar
3) The Home Depot
4) The Limited
5) Starbucks
6) McDonald’s
7) Estée Lauder
8) L’Oréal
9) Delta Galil
10) Marks & Spencer
11) Sara Lee
12) Coca-Cola
13) Intel
BGinCHI
@MikeJ: Wow. That huge factory is still there in Golden.
I wouldn’t piss on the Coors family if they were all on fire.
pacem appellant
@The Other Chuck: My problem as well. I prefer microbrew (being a left-coasty and all), but I guess that’s hard to unionize.I don’t think I could even drink Rolling Rock. Is there union bottled water?
RSR
@Elizabelle:
>> although Yuengling is my favorite inexpensive brew.
Yuengling chased the teamsters out in 2007, so I refrain from drinking it as much as possible. Owner just became a billionaire, according to Forbes. Yuengling (Pennsylvania) porter is delicious however.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/teamsters-foaming-over-ejection-at-yuengling-487055/
http://www.ldnews.com/lebanonnews/ci_22721499/dick-yuengling-jr-makes-forbess-billionaires-list
BGinCHI
@MikeJ: I’m dying to get out there and fish, which I usually do every year (in the OR coastal rivers). Not this year or last though.
Be careful or I may show up on your doorstep with a packed bag.
BruceFromOhio
@Arclite: Hey! C’mon! Its got my Olde English 800, and my rock-solid stand-by beers, Rolling Rock and Miller Genuine Draft. Now, granted they aren’t the hoppy beer-snob holier-than-thou beverages – that’s not the point.
MikeJ
@pacem appellant:
There’s a good chance your metropolitan water supply union made.
BGinCHI
@LanceThruster: Who knew The Limited could bring the evil?
PsiFighter37
I see there’s talk of beer. Yum.
PF37 +3 (2 Hennepins + 1 Troegenator)
Elizabelle
@RSR:
Dang re Yuengling.
HOWEVER: that Buycott app is apparently up and running and got 5 stars rating.
Find out if your favorite brand has a Koch brother hiding behind it.
Oh: and you can feel good about drinking Sierra Nevada ales: they’re “bicycle friendly” and have not donated $$$ to fight GMO labelling.
Heliopause
I’m all for supporting unions but, sorry, I draw the line at purchasing and drinking urine.
As an alternative to the above swill try googling something like “worker owned craft brewery” or similar and see if anything that comes up is available in your area. I see New Belgium and Full Sail on page one of the results and both of those are available in my area.
BGinCHI
@Heliopause: I’d be shocked if bearded hipster craft brewers were treating their employees like shit. Seriously, I would.
The dudes and gals who are remaking beer and spirits are going to save this country one delicious drink at a time.
I love wine but it’s mostly produced (owned by, that is) by rich dicks.
burnspbesq
If all I’m allowed to eat is union-made food, I’ll look like a marathon runner in a month. There is nothing on that list worth eating.
FlipYrWhig
@BGinCHI: If not piss, how about Coors beer? Then it’s like Homer Simpson’s riddle about God microwaving a burrito so hot not even He could eat it.
Trollhattan
@Violet:
They seem to be a fantastic little company–passionate about their product, progressive about their employees and aggressively green. Damn hipsters. :-)
Also, too, for anybody who only knows them from Fat Trire, try their other offerings, especially the Belgians (duh). Fat Tire is their least interesting beer.
Suzanne
Wow, that beer list is all horse piss.
I like the stuff from the Alaskan Brewing Company. Employee-owned?
The younguns in my office want me to try a “beer-rita”. I can’t decide if that’s alchemy or a combo so weird, it’s like ice cream and hot sauce (or orgasmic birth). I suppose I must investigate for myself.
catclub
@MikeJ: bear whiz beer. I loved that Firesign Theater ad.
Violet
@burnspbesq: I was thinking the same thing. There’s a lot of crap on that list. I guess that’s what people normally eat for picnics and barbecues, but…ugh.
I’m sure I’m one of those elitists, but I grow as much of my own food as I can and supplement from local suppliers and other green, organic, humane providers. There’s a lot to think about when you choose your food–union is one thing, but treating the environment right is another, so is locally grown to support your own community and so forth. Hopefully the people who treat the environment right are also treating people right, but there’s no guarantee.
LanceThruster
@BGinCHI:
“Not I,” said the goose.
BGinCHI
@Suzanne: Do not try that. You are not Stanley McChrystal.
PurpleGirl
@NickT: Construction workers are sexy, gorgeous hunks. Wanna party?
From the TMP article and the author: fiction romance novel.
Since when is a novel not fiction.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Thanks Kay! Did you see that a number of the groups the IRS looked at share counsel, PR firms and office space? Reported by that notoriously liberal rag on the river in Cincinnati. Office space is of course in the heart of the district of the AOS. It would be interesting to see how far, exactly from his local office.
Trollhattan
@BGinCHI:
Have to challenge you on that one. I know plenty of vintners who are the furthest thing from rich dicks. I’m also within easy drive of a thousand wineries, so have an advantage on the topic.
Mind, there are a shitton of wineries run by prototypical Silicon Valley stock option refugees, the aphorism being “A winery is a great way to make a small fortune…out of a large one.”
Mandalay
Poor Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell! He only did one thing wrong: he got caught…
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/latest-news/washington-lawyer-flood-counsels-mcdonnell-on-probe/article_bd183186-e3f0-11e2-aab5-001a4bcf6878.html
That should put an end to that vile misogynist’s 2016 presidential run.
Botsplainer
Milwaukee’s Best?
Best what? Farts that smell like burning tires? Gut cutting heartburn? Painful diarrhea?
Trollhattan
@catclub:
“It’s in the water, that’s why it’s yellow.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rmwEyIBBQM
Violet
@Suzanne: I didn’t know what a beer-rita was, so I googled. If this is what it is, it could be pretty good. Sounds like the old lime-in-Corona taken to eleven by adding tequila.
The Other Chuck
Just about anything from Deschutes, Flying Dog, or Dogfish Head is awesome. Dogfish Head’s latest is called Sixty One (apparently it’s their 61st variety) and it’s freakin amazing.
Kay
@BGinCHI:
I like sparklers.
Just really tame and..sparkly.
Cacti
@BGinCHI:
Fixed that for you.
PsiFighter37
@Heliopause: Don’t hate on Goose Island – their beers have varying degrees of quality, but I do like their IPAs.
Agreed, though, that the rest of them blow chunks. Give me craft brews any time, thank you very much.
NotMax
@gbear
Georgia-Pacific paper goods:
Brawny
Angel Soft
Mardi Gras
Quilted Northern
Dixie
Sparkle
Vanity Fair
PsiFighter37
@The Other Chuck: Never had Deschutes, but the other 2 are very good indeed. I really like the super-high ABV beers Dogfishhead puts out – in particular the King Midas beer and the beer aged in Peruvian oak that is thousands of years old.
NickT
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/07/rasmussen-poll-racism.php?ref=fpblg
Next up, Rasmussen poll shows Morsi universally beloved in Egypt.
Suzanne
@Violet: It sounds like it is either stone-cold awesome sauce or is totally vile. No in-between.
The first time someone told me what a Carbomb was, I thought it sounded nasty. I was WRONG. Deliciously wrong.
Mike E
Yay for Ballpark turkey dogs! Those beers make me sad, though it is summer and PBR/lemonade shandies are what I drink in a pinch. Sam Adams makes a nice shandy when mixed w/lemonade. Too.
Arclite
@Violet: I drink Fat Tire every chance I get (which is only when I visit Cali. They don’t import it to Hawaii). And I get most of the others too. I just can’t stand the mega beers, even if they are union.
@ Trollhattan: I always get their variety pack.
Shakezula
Thanks for this list. By some fluke, the only things we have not on one of these lists is our beer, but our beer is courtesy of a couple of local breweries. (I don’t think I am an official “Beer Snob,” it’s just the stuff out of the small concerns is … good.)
currants
@Spaghetti Lee: Coke? I thought it was Pepsi…
MikeJ
@PsiFighter37: Deschutes Twilight Summer Ale is what’s in my fridge right now. Never had a bad one from them.
ellie
Any union-made rum? I don’t drink beer.
Kay
@burnspbesq:
It’s not mandatory, burns. Yet.
A lot of people around here are UFCW. Frozen Specialties. Doesn’t that sound yummy?
BGinCHI
@Trollhattan: Me too, but I said “mostly.” In craft beer it’s almost all seat of the pants stuff.
I know quite a few wine folks as well, from poor to middling to rich asshole oil money.
Violet
@Arclite: Are there craft beers in Hawaii? Seems like a golden opportunity for someone, what with all the tourists wanting better quality beer and wanting to try something local.
Edit: I answered my own question. Plenty of local beer in Hawaii.
http://beerinhawaii.com/
http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/Biting-Commentary/May-2013/Five-Hawaii-Beers-You-Need-to-Try/
catclub
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Here was an interestng bit from that article “But all the organization’s website consists of is attack ads on U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill.” Huh? Intra-GOP squabbling? It was a conservative organization.
catclub
@ellie: A pirate union, no doubt.
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
At least since the label ‘non-fiction novel’ was pinned on Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.
Elizabelle
@Violet:
Thank you re buycott. (Missed your post cause I was googling for it.)
I don’t even have Angry Birds on my iPhone. Shall try to remember my password and add buycott.
A little tech challenged here.
I blame the Yuengling.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Violet: Those are some of the Village People, right? The Construction Worker, the Hockey Player, and the Chippendale’s Librarian. Right?
Given the publisher, several men and no women on the cover signals only one thing.
I’m surprised the article didn’t mention that she has a number of books out from another small ebook press. This is the only one that screams gay, though.
Poser covers are common on small press ebooks. She says she pulled it when the contract ran out after eight years, so 2001 isn’t that far off.
And yes, most Poser covers suck. They are sometimes terrifying bad. (Language at links may not be SFW.)
BGinCHI
@Arclite: We get Kona’s beers here now.
NickT
@ellie:
http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/content/db/b-db-american-union-made.shtml#Alcoholic Beverages
Apparently Calypso Dark and Calypso Light Rum are kosher, as are Captain Morgan’s various offerings and Caribbean Gold and Caribbean White. Also too Pallo Viejo.
http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/content/db/b-db-american-union-made.shtml
Trollhattan
Speaking of the Koch bros….
Why do the Koch brothers hate
Americaevery human not a Koch?http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/07/the-kochs-and-the-action-on-global-warming.html
currants
@Betty Cracker: just downloaded. Thanks!
Violet
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Oh, my! Those covers are…I don’t even have words. Why even bother? Why not just take a photo of a bunch of flowers or something? Those are crazy.
NickT
@Trollhattan:
Because they secretly think George III wasn’t so bad after all? Or maybe it’s a vampire/human thing.
NotMax
@Violet
Yes.
Craft rum and tequila, too.
And pineapple wine.
IowaOldLady
We’re spending the long weekend at my brother’s house on a lake in Brainerd MN. I expect there will be beer and much good food.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Suzanne: At our local SW joint, it’s a frozen margarita with a beer bottle f top down in it. Never tried it. I get a blue curacao tinted margarita up, and Mr. Q. gets Macallan.
I guess we’re kinda regulars as the bartender just brings our drinks when we sit down. One night he had them waiting when we walked in – the owner said “did Bella call?” and the bartender said “I saw her walking up through the window.”
Elizabelle
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
“If It’s Tuesday, There Must be DILDOS.”
Jeebus.
Who says we’re not a nation of readers?
JPL
@Trollhattan: Leave the Koch brothers alone. They are Sarah’s real americans..
Amir Khalid
These are supposed to be work-boots with non-metallic safety toes on sale at Amazon.co.uk. I gotta say, I would not go on a construction site wearing that.
Violet
@Elizabelle: Check out this cover. NSFW! NSFW! Seriously! NSFW!
Kay
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Ugh. Protect Your Vote Ohio. They’re the bad government group. Partisan redistricting and campaign finance deregulation.
Roger Moore
@Trollhattan:
Which is exactly why it’s their most popular. The more interesting a beer is, the fewer but more passionate its drinkers tend to be. I’m considering going to Santa Rosa next February so I can try Pliny the Younger.
JPL
@Suzanne: My son and his SO are flying to Phoenix tonight to visit with friends. Really, who doesn’t want to spend the 4th in Phoenix.
NickT
@Violet:
I never knew Legolas was bi. I always assumed he was a straight-arrow man-on-dwarf (elf-on-dwarf?) kinda guy.
srv
@Roger Moore: The worst kind of socialist.
NickT
@srv:
Socialists with capitalist characteristics. Bah!
Arclite
@Violet: Yeah, and the craft beers here are actually pretty good. Kona Brewery makes some good stuff, and Maui Brewing makes a good coconut porter. There’s even a decent Belgian-style ale: Hawai’i Nui Brewing Southern Cross Belgian Style Double Red Ale.
Amir Khalid
@Violet:
Man, that’s an ugly cover. I have never seen the human figure so ineptly depicted.
Trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Have had Pliny the Elder on tap and in bottle, but have never even SEEN the Younger, much less tried it. As you suggest, a pilgrimage is required and even then there are no guarantees. (Much waiting on line only to be told, “Oh, the cat’s got it. Come back tomorrow.”)
Am informed there are only-at-the-brewery Sierra Nevada special brews that would make the angels weep, with their holy deliciousness.
NickT
@Amir Khalid:
Legolas, Mark Sanchez and Peggy Noonan as she sees herself. It’s oddly impressive.
BGinCHI
@IowaOldLady: You should watch “Fargo” before you go.
Violet
@NickT: Maybe the cover is from his younger days? You know, experimentation.
@NickT: Now I can’t unsee that! I don’t think it’s Nooners, though. I think it’s McMegan. Can we just add a few kitchen implements in the background?
CONGRATULATIONS!
No wonder the country’s so anti-union.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@NickT: You know what we generally call those people? Democrats.
bemused
@NotMax:
What about store brand paper products? I buy Target Up & Up but have no clue who actually manufactures it.
NickT
@Violet:
I am pretty sure there’s always an abundance of tools around McMegan.
Roy G.
Almost all of those beer brands are owned by global mega-conglomerate InBev, so it’s no accident that they are all tasteless dreck. In this case, I think union-made isn’t the best criteria for judging, as a lot of micro-breweries actually do right by their employees. Stone Brewery FTW!
The dish on InBev:
The Plot to Destroy America’s Beer
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-25/the-plot-to-destroy-americas-beer
The Other Chuck
@PsiFighter37: Deschutes Black Butte Porter is second to none, and the Obsidian Stout is quite awesome. Not sure I’d want either a porter or stout on a hot summer day tho. Their other brews aren’t so mind-blowing in my opinion, but they’re all pretty darn good — the IPA is hoppy but not a bitter hop bomb like so many are making them nowadays.
Midas Touch is nummy nummy nummy and kicks like a mule. Kinda hits the wallet hard too, tho since I started buying St Bernardus, I guess it’s pretty cheap in comparison :)
NickT
@Roger Moore:
http://russianriverbrewing.com/brews/pliny-the-younger/
I do love the names they’ve given their beers. Defenestration and Supplication sound especially promising.
Roger Moore
@Trollhattan:
Pliny the Elder is about the only beer that will make me stop reading the menu and say I’m sure I know what I want. I can only imagine how good Pliny the Younger must be, so I think it might actually be worth a pilgrimage. Of course I also have friends and family in the Bay Area, so it wouldn’t be exclusively about the beer.
Elizabelle
@Violet:
How unsexy. I think big guy’s shoulder is dislocated.
What is with the (badly!!) computer generated art on these covers?
The books are like fetish objects.
NotMax
@bemused
Look on the label. If it says Georgia-Pacific, it is Koch.
RandomMonster
I think the only beer I would drink on that list is the Steelhead IPA made by Mad River. But it IS one of my favorite beers!
Served
@catclub:
That’s an Illinois thing! Schock was making noise about running for Governor, and our very own Billionaire Fool (Bruce Rauner) set up groups and ads to preemptively smear Schock. It’s well-known that he was behind them, but never confirmed.
Violet
OT, but check out what Assad said about what’s going on in Egypt:
Of course our own teabagger Christianists are nothing like that.
The Other Chuck
@Violet:
Says the Mayor of Damascus while his regime is worn away by Hezbollah-backed militants funded by a state that, what’s that? It’s a theocracy? Yes, he’s crushed a significant chunk of the rebellion, but he still seems to be planning his triumphal celebrations a tad prematurely.
Betty Cracker
@bemused: I don’t know about that particular brand, but I bet the Kochs have their tentacles on many private-label paper product brands, just because they own such a huge chunk of the pulp industry. That’s what originally inspired me to download Buycott.
scav
For wine drinkers, of the euro-vine-tendency but growing apparently, maybe some from cooperatives might fit the bill better. Co-ops in magazine and a babled translate of some info from Languedoc-Rousillon as I know lots of them were originally started during a general fever of syndicalisme. 1907!
David in NY
That businessweek link above says that Bud Light is the No. 1 selling beer in the country. Explains pretty much everything, and it ain’t the unions’ fault.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Trollhattan: Before they got sold and went mass market in the early 1990s, any Sierra Nevada brew would make an angel weep. Haven’t run into beer that good since, actually. Yeast on the bottom of the bottle. Yum.
Thlayli
I remember someone posting on a blog once that we should boycott Coors Light because its owner was a wingnut asshole.
My response was “I don’t drink Coors Light because it sucks. Does that help?”
PsiFighter37
@The Other Chuck: There was a pretty good article in NYT 2-3 weeks ago that chronicled how boxed in the folks in Syria are. It’s not even that the Alawites themselves have any great love for Assad, but the minorities now all think they are on the butcher block if he falls.
That’s become a total fucking mess, and sending weapons to them of any kind other than water pistols is a bad fucking idea. I think Obama knows this, but he said stupid shit about red lines. Dumb move.
PsiFighter37
@CONGRATULATIONS!: If you’re looking to light yourself up like a Christmas tree, you should try Hoptimum. It’s probably the hoppiest beer I’ve ever had, but I was in such a good place once I finished the bottle.
Trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Remember: that’s your story and you’re stickin’ to it.
Arclite
@PsiFighter37: Hoptimum is good stuff.
JCT
@PsiFighter37: That was a great article – sent it to my oldest in grad school pursing islamic studies, she commented that they did a good job with a nearly impenetrable subject.
I’ve become hooked on local breweries here in Tucson – will hopefully get home from this trip to pick up a growler of Dragoon for the 4th.
Roger Moore
@PsiFighter37:
Yes, Hoptimum is a good one. Not as great as Pliny the Elder, but better availability.
srv
@Roger Moore: Oh, here’s libertarianish Lagunitas guy calling fowl on socalist New Belgium:
Good thing I don’t like that New Belgium stuff and can drink a Real Americans beer.
(although I’m Russian River all the way, in fact, it and Blind Pig are what’s for late brunch at the Toronado today)
PsiFighter37
@srv: Gotta say that Lagunitas does some real cool limited edition stuff. Love the recent ones (Lagunitas Sucks, Shut-Down Investigation Ale) that have come out. I can leave the regular stuff they put out for the most part, but I’m a big fan of these.
JGabriel
Thlayli:
That’s like the Reese’s Cups of protest: Two Great Reasons That Go Great Together, for the Price of One Boycott!
mainmati
@Amir Khalid: I’ve had beef rendang but not chicken. Yuuum. But you’re right, Wendy’s would destroy such a dish.
Trollhattan
@PsiFighter37:
They manage to put out the funniest writing to ever appear on a beer label/carton/truck, even if some of it is three-point type. Driving directions to the brewery printed on the case bottom are especially hilarious.
Didn’t know they were in a slapfight with New Belgian. Takes all kinds, but mostly sounds jealous.
Howard Beale IV
Whoopsie…Murdoch knew about the bribing going on at his newspapers:
sparrow
@Violet: I visited that brewery and it is AWESOME. They are very eco-friendly, and buy every employee a bike on some anniversary (first, maybe?) and encourage biking to work. Really beautiful building as well for tastings…
Amir Khalid
@mainmati:
True. It’s not so much about an Ohioan version of chicken rendang, it’s more about the American fast-food approach to making it. Then again, I once tried satay at a local restaurant in Framingham, Massachusetts, and that wasn’t so great either.
joel hanes
Unfortunately, Johnsonville sausages are made by a corporation that strongly supports Wisconsin Governor Dead-eyes Walker. I’ve sent them a strongly worded letter, and have quit buying them (no great sacrifice here in Silicon Valley, where we have Dittmer’s Gourmet Meats and Wursthaus, but a really painful one back home in Iowa)
And Koch Bros make the Angel Soft toilet paper that I prefer; I’ve switched to something else.
BGinCHI
@joel hanes: If Johnsonville are the best sausages you can find in Iowa, you aren’t trying hard enough. There are more hogs than people. Deploy the Google.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Elizabelle: @Violet: I’m so glad I could bring the pleasure of the Smart Bitches cover snark to more people.
bemused
@Betty Cracker:
It wouldn’t surprise me.
I don’t have a smartphone…just a basic one so I don’t do apps.
bemused
@NotMax:
Finally found it on the tissue…Kimberly Clark.
ellie
@NickT: Thanks Nick!
RandomMonster
@srv: New Belgium is way boring to my tastes. The Lagunitas folks know their way with hops.
AHH onna Droid
Thank u Kay. I am going to share this list at work. Re employee owned, long history with labor movement yet frowned on in printing, dunno why.
AHH onna Droid
@joel hanes: Angel Soft is shit for environment too. Ask fsp forestry geeks for details.
Me, I buy Scott tissue and butt wipes.
Yastreblyansky
@srv: Here’s an alternative list with a few drinkable brands (foreign, Beck, Bass, Cechvar, etc.): http://labor411.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=322%3Aunion-game-night&catid=86%3Aproducts&Itemid=375
AHH onna Droid
@Sister Rail Gun : TYFT. I laughed so hard.
Kay
@AHH onna Droid:
I did campaign finance filing for a statehouse candidate in 2012 and he was a labor candidate so I had to.pick up “buy union” quick around them.
At one point this really nice older man,an active Democrat, put candy out at one of our booths. It was non-union candy! I wasn’t even there, had nothing to do with the candy and I got like 11
emails. HUGE scandal :)
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Koegel’s are union made hot dogs, too! Flint and all that, ya know…
chicodude
@Arclite: I live in Chico, where the Sierra Nevada Brewery is and while they are not unionized, they really don’t need to be. I know several people that work there and they get paid well and have great benefits. I would love to work for them myself.
You can drink a Sierra Nevada with no qualms.
chicodude
@CONGRATULATIONS!: Sierra Nevada Brewery was never sold to anybody. It is still owned by Ken Grossman, the guy that started it in 1980.
Tripod
Progressive betters give momentary pretense to giving a fuck about organized labor.
Conspicuous consumption prevails.
W00T!
ThresherK
Looking for recommended natural-casing frankfurters. I’m in CT.
Because later in July we’re inviting over the folks hosting the pool party we’re going to today.