Canadian Retail Thread

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Wigs

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Back in my 15-year old self, this was the "malt beverage" that got you where you needed to go quicker. Especially if you drank it with a straw.

I am starting to feel old. Maybe this is a better match:


And for those long ago days of visiting shitty taverns in the East End of Montreal, I drank this ubiquitous product:


claque-claque. The cheesiest beer in history:
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[MolsonExport]

These old beer commercials are great. Look at this one. The poor guy spends his whole day waiting for the moment he can get home to quaff his Labatt 50. You can tell he is thinking about it on the elevator ride down and the bus ride home.

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My wife doesn't greet me with a beer, alas.

[niwell]

Everytime these old pictures / videos of beer get posted I realllly want a Labatt 50.

Found out the sketchy pub near our house in Napanee serves quarts, though gotta find out a way to convince them to carry beers other than Canadian.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

These old beer commercials are great. Look at this one. The poor guy spends his whole day waiting for the moment he can get home to quaff his Labatt 50. You can tell he is thinking about it on the elevator ride down and the bus ride home.

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My wife doesn't greet me with a beer, alas.

By today's standards, it's amazing that the commercial is an entire minute long...

That working stiff probably still lives in that house in Vancouver. Except now he is 91, his house is worth $1.8 million, and he can now afford to bathe in Labatt 50

For what it's worth I always enjoyed 50 but I have not seen it in these parts in a loooong time.

[Djeffery]

I remember my grade 9 French teacher back in 1983 not being amused that one of my French projects was translating the Labatt 50 jingle. "Me and the boys and our 50, me and the boys and our beer". I did a literal word for word translation so I probably got it wrong, but Mr Stick-In-Butt wouldn't mark it. "Mois et les garcons et notre cinquant, mois et les garcons et nos biere". Maybe one of the Francophones here can give me my grade 40 years later. I did that from memory by the way, but I'm pretty sure that's what I came up with back then.

[Kilgore Trout]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

I remember my grade 9 French teacher back in 1983 not being amused that one of my French projects was translating the Labatt 50 jingle. "Me and the boys and our 50, me and the boys and our beer". I did a literal word for word translation so I probably got it wrong, but Mr Stick-In-Butt wouldn't mark it. "Mois et les garcons et notre cinquant, mois et les garcons et nos biere". Maybe one of the Francophones here can give me my grade 40 years later. I did that from memory by the way, but I'm pretty sure that's what I came up with back then.

Very amusing. A little too proper though. "Moé pis les boys pis notre 50" would be more like it

[Kilgore Trout]

I love that Molson Brador ad. Really makes me want to drink it. By all accounts it was a pretty bad malt liquor though.

[urbandreamer]

I remember in the early to mid 80s seeing those 50 stubbies lining the ditches of rural back road Ontario. I had this great idea to collect them to try to cash in on the return fee before realizing I'd have to find millions of them to become a rich 8 year old. Drinking and driving, no seat belts, smoking, barefoot driving all very popular with the teenagers from the late 60s to 1980s. They drove 1970s Camaro, F100, Omni, Parisienne, LTD etc.

[Djeffery]

One of my mom's friends decorating a Snowbirds flight suit with a 50 stubby at an airshow party in the late 70's.

[manny_santos]

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[Loco101]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

These old beer commercials are great. Look at this one. The poor guy spends his whole day waiting for the moment he can get home to quaff his Labatt 50. You can tell he is thinking about it on the elevator ride down and the bus ride home.

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My wife doesn't greet me with a beer, alas.

That ad was filmed in Vancouver which is pretty cool. The house would be worth a lot today and I bet whoever is living in it now isn't taking the bus to and from work and also isn't drinking 50.

[Proof Sheet]

http://www.stubby.ca/index.php

Lots of memories here for some of the older guys....like Molson.

Some of these I haven't thought of in years..Charrington Toby, Carlsberg (barely registers other than sports sponserships it seems), Carlsberg Bock, O'Keefe Ale, OV, John Labatt Extra Stock, Labatts Velvet Cream Porter (drank a lot of that in university..don't think I could drink much of it now), Labatts Super Bock, Labatts IPA, Champlain Porter,

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

I love that Molson Brador ad. Really makes me want to drink it. By all accounts it was a pretty bad malt liquor though.

I don't think they had Brador out here, at least not in my time.

The equivalent to that around here was this classic... the beer of kings

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

http://www.stubby.ca/index.php

Lots of memories here for some of the older guys....like Molson.

Some of these I haven't thought of in years..Charrington Toby, Carlsberg (barely registers other than sports sponserships it seems), Carlsberg Bock, O'Keefe Ale, OV, John Labatt Extra Stock, Labatts Velvet Cream Porter (drank a lot of that in university..don't think I could drink much of it now), Labatts Super Bock, Labatts IPA, Champlain Porter,

Ahh, the good ol' days.

There was a time in the 70s when my dad drank a lot of these:

[MolsonExport]

amusing:

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by esquire

By today's standards, it's amazing that the commercial is an entire minute long...

That working stiff probably still lives in that house in Vancouver. Except now he is 91, his house is worth $1.8 million, and he can now afford to bathe in Labatt 50

For what it's worth I always enjoyed 50 but I have not seen it in these parts in a loooong time.

I've never seen Labatt 50 in BC before. Perhaps I'm just not old enough.

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

http://www.stubby.ca/index.php

Lots of memories here for some of the older guys....like Molson.

Some of these I haven't thought of in years..Charrington Toby, Carlsberg (barely registers other than sports sponserships it seems), Carlsberg Bock, O'Keefe Ale, OV, John Labatt Extra Stock, Labatts Velvet Cream Porter (drank a lot of that in university..don't think I could drink much of it now), Labatts Super Bock, Labatts IPA, Champlain Porter,

And never even heard of most of these as well. I'm guessing not all of them were available west of Ontario? Or maybe west of the Rockies?

[esquire]

I think 50 was way more common around the time of that commercial, it was a national best-seller in the 70s. So it stands to reason it would have been available in BC too although I'm not certain about that.

Certainly in Manitoba it was prominent right up until the 80s and I still used to see it in Liquor Marts until about 15 years ago. But I'm not even sure if you can get it here anymore.

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by esquire

I think 50 was way more common around the time of that commercial, it was a national best-seller in the 70s. So it stands to reason it would have been available in BC too although I'm not certain about that.

Certainly in Manitoba it was prominent right up until the 80s and I still used to see it in Liquor Marts until about 15 years ago. But I'm not even sure if you can get it here anymore.

My local beer store has 10 'two fours' and 2 '12 packs' available but unfortunately no kegs.

It is only on draught it seems at the ever declining number of taverns in Ottawa. Probably more available in Quebec.

[MolsonExport]

Labatt completely stopped marketing its own beers, concentrating on slinging American horse piss instead.