Since I’ve been watching lots of hockey of late I’ve seen this commercial that drives me absolutely bat-shit crazy. Labatt Blue has a new promotion based on their beer being defined as “The Good Stuff”, versus the budget beers being referenced as “The Okay Stuff”. For anyone who has had the misfortune of drinking Blue you’d know that it definitely doesn’t fall in the category of the good stuff. I can think of numerous Canadian beers, budget and otherwise that are far better then Blue. It is actually entirely beyond me that Canada’s two largest brands, Blue and Canadian, actually are the preferred beer of some people. Molson recent drove me nuts awhile back with their commercial that had a guy, probably an American, going on about how Canadians have no taste in beer. This guy goes on, oblivious to the growing crowd around him, about how he thinks Canadians were born without tongues etc. Eventually the crowd ships him out of the country on a plane and all drink a Molson Canadian to celebrate the excommunication of this guy. To me, if you choose to drink Canadian on a regular basis you may in fact have been born without a tongue.

If I were to parallel these 2 beers with Canadian bands Blue would be Nickelback and Canadian would be Simple Plan. No one can really explain why they’re popular, it just defies logic. Yet still they sell lots of product