PBR's hipster pedigree.
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Who knows how these things happen, but it happened: shitty Pabst Blue Ribbon somehow became the ironic beer of choice for NYC hip-peoples (though, it is waning a bit lately). 'Dude! It's like got a blue ribbon, but it like tastes like crap...Cheers!' As you can see above, even back in the 1940s, PBR was the choice of Bettys and Artists everywhere.
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(also, here's some hipster haikus, some of which mention PBR.)
posted by copyranter @ 8:40 AM
9 Comments:
I've always thought PBR had a sort of retro appeal. Glad the city-dwellers have validated my notion that it's more than a frat house punch line. Good stuff.
only someone blindfolded would drink that crap
New hipster haiku:
Black cuffed skinny jeans
Catch the drops of PBR
You spilled on my Chucks.
I guess this answers the question: can you polish a turd? In this case a resounding yes!
PBR: Chardonnay for posers. it's david lynch's fault: blue velvet, 1986, dennis hopper screaming "Heineken?!? FUck that shit." kyle mcwhatsis looking stunned.
PBR saw me through two years of grad school. 50 cent pints, every week night. It made me forget the magnitude of stupidty that I was pursuing.
Truthfully there is a case of PBR in my beer fridge right now. You can't beat $9.99 a case at Vons (supermarket chain).
Although, being a) a 30 year old man and b) one who purchases beer for value at a supermarket, I cannot be a hipster. Unless, of course, I did it all Ironically.
$3 PBR + Jim Beam shot at Bob & Barbara's on Philly's South Street. If I can spend $20 and vomit on my shoes, you can call me a hipster any day, bub.
I was visiting a friend in Winston-Salem a few years back and he took me to a very nice restaurant that offered, amidst a plethora of alcoholic beverage choices: ICDC beer:
"A can of Pabst for $1: Ice-cold, Dirt cheap"
Went well with a $18 rack of ribs.
I'm always sort of surprised to see PBR being sold. Kind of like running across a Genessee. This was the beer teenagers used to drink and wing the bottles in the creek behind my house.
Hipster Haikus? I'm out.
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