Anyone who's watched all those really bad American movies about stock car racing, or NASCAR, as they call it over here, might have the same problem I have of not being able to connect the "Good Old Boy - Super Macho" image of NASCAR with the fact that it's main sponsor has always been a so-called beer that's as close to real beer as their racing cars are to ride-on mowers.
So today's news that Budweiser will no longer sponsor NASCAR, and be replaced by a brand of brown colored water that goes by the name of Coors Light, leaves me even more mystified. Isn't this the sport that grew out of the old Moonshine runners of the deep south? I guess these guys must be confusing "EverClear" with "EverWatery!"
Although, I must say, every time I come back to Blighty, I am somewhat dismayed to see so many people in pubs downing pints of Bud and other disastrous examples of the brewers art.
George Parker
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