[Darren McCarty]

I boycott Absolut for a different reason. It tastes like crap. If I wanted cheaply made vodka, I’d buy Popov, which was somewhat popular on college campuses when I was there for one reasons - price. If I’m paying $25 a bottle, make it a good whiskey.

I’m not positive about this, but I heard that over in Sweden, that absolut was under another brandname that sold bad because it tasted like crap. They then kept the taste the same, but had did some ace marketing in the US as a “premium” brand for all the yuppies in college who want to look sophisticated. Even raised the price. Hook, like, sinker.

I bet Absolut is laughing to the bank on this outrage.

[Kenny Bunk]

Gringo, you have absolutamente missed el punto!

This is a cheap imperialist Madison Avenue trick to switch Chicanos away from their traditional Tequila, Pulque, Mescal and Colt.45. You gringos think that if we drink enough of this cheap hooch, we will dream of La Reconquista, but be too borracho to carry it out, be too broke to buy gas, and be too hungry and weak because it's made from corn, which should be going into ever more expensive tortillas.

Gringo, we don't need no steenkin' Absolut. BTW, tell that Argentine Art Director he's supposed to be marketing the product. He looks like he's been drinking it.

[Hiddigeigei]

Most cultures have developed some form of rot-gut. In the US it’s commercial white lightening (as opposed to “drinkin’ liquor”). Mexico has tequila. In Scandinavia it’s “akvavit.” In the Near East it’s Ouzo .. China it’s “Bai Gar.” In Russia, Poland, and I guess Sweden now, it’s vodka. All clear vodkas are pretty awful.

Although I’ve had ‘sippin’ vodka, sippin’ moonshine (drinkin’ liquor), sippin’ schnaps that weren’t half bad and some pretty good-tasting rums , in the raw form, none of these are more than a ‘head-banging’ drunks designed to kill brain cells, and none compare with a good Bourbon, blended wiskey, or Scotch. All brandies are all really ‘after dinner liqueurs.’