July 28, 2007
"Yes, he can see you fine through his solid-gold eyeglasses, he simply doesn’t have time to dally with the likes of you."
Modern Drunkard picks the 10 greatest alcohol icons of all time, beginning with "The Striding Man," who embodies Johnnie Walker. (Via Throwing Things.)
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Here is the correct link for those of you still up. I have to wonder if linking to your own website for "Modern Drunkard" wasn't an invitation to leap into the Anti-Althousiana vortex.
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Oops. Sorry. I didn't actually link to my own website.... Blogger just does that when there's an incomplete link....
ZIMA!
I wonder why they didn't use this guy as a symbol of the democratic party?
ZIMA is for folks that like poodles, preferably mad, and enjoy getting bitten on the butt!
Maybe it's my age and Milwaukee origin, but I kept expecting to see the Blatz singing cartoon bottle, can & keg guys ("I'm from Milwaukee and I oughta know..."). But when I googled for an image, much less video, not a sign of them.
He omitted Sandeman's Port's black-garbed figure, complete with hat!
And Cutty Sark's Ship
Iconic, both.
Maybe I'll think of more when I sober up.
hdhouse said...
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Henhouse is a little confused. Absolute has no icon, but it worked so hard to be associated with affluent gays that the Brand -Absolut - became a Gay Icon.
Now held up in MBA classes as a lesson in advertising. A product with broad sales should seek market niches, but not at the cost of becoming so associated with the niche that you lose part of your broader base. Absolut became so associated with gays and "oh, so precious flavorings" that other straight drinkers began shunning "the gay vodka" for other brands, dropping net sales.
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Anyways, the list misses The Budweiser Clysdales, The Cutty Sark icon, Silver Bullet, St Pauli Girl (world's largest selling beer), 400 year old Sapporo symbol, Mt Rainier icon on Olympia beer, and so on. Then there is Lone Star beer, where the single star is debated as either denoting Texas or beer quality on a 4-star rating system.
One lost icon was Ernst and Julio Gallo, which brough the masses back to wine in America, starting of course with the West Coast wino population. Then gave their names and faces to further civilization with the introduction of the wine cooler.
Me, I'm partial to the St. Pauli's Girl.
There's also that Rolling Rock girl.
If Modern Drunkard counted the Hamm’s bear -- who does look amusingly lushy -- then they really should’ve put Bert and Harry Piel on their list. Voiced by Bob & Ray, the Bert & Harry commercials were some of hippest on TV in the ’50s and ’60s, in both humor and artwork. They were huge. Twenty years after the commercials went off the air, I found a Bert & Harry serving tray in an antiques shop and gave it to a friend for her birthday.
Miss Rheingold (a NYC Beer) Voting by hand ballot by patrons of Beer Gardens! No mispunched chads.
Jack Daniel’s Old No 7 with all that writin’ on the label
Seagram’s 7 with a “7” topped with a crown
Southern Comfort with the old plantation on the river
Old Grand-Dad Whiskey with a picture of a geezer
Pabst Blue Ribbon with its logo on a Blue Ribbon
Four Roses with four roses on its label
The Anheuser Busch Eagle
Ruppert Beer with Father Knickerbocker
Miller High Life Girl
Mogen David with the elders around the table.
Black & White Scotch with two dogs, one White & the other Black
Kirin Beer with its dragon
Old Crow with its crow
Can we count Lydia E. Pinkham's Herb Medicine or is it just an Urban Legend (anecdote) that it was well fortified with alcohol?
Nobody cares anymore but that’s not gonna stop me” dept.
Blue Nun –Stiller & Meara comercials
The Beefeater Gin beefeater
Balantine Beer-Three Intertwined Rings
John Jameson Irish - The whiskey cases dropped on the rat fink in the hold of the ship in "On The Waterfront" to stop him from talking. (He never coudda been a cotenda)
(BTW, My Miller Girl was one of the Top Ten I was supposed to be adding to; My Bad
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