[78-L] 5 reasons to hate 78-L

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Your grandparents weren't efficiency experts named Gilbreth, by any chance? Sounds like a episode in the book "Cheaper By The Dozen".
 Jim
> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:19:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 5 reasons to hate 78-L
> 
> From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> > Carnation Beer....from contented kegs!
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com> wrote:
> >> >I take NO responsibility for consuming the milk theotetically
> >> >once contained in these "milk boxes"...!
> >> >Steven C. Barr
> >> OK, Steven. It's time for you to invent a new type of beer bottle
> >> that's shaped just like a milk bottle.
> >>
> Two stories come to mind...!
> 
> First...when I was a young teen, and interested in all the dates and
> similar markings found on bottles...a "local" (Bloomington, Ill's.)
> bottler acquired the franchise for Dad'sl Old-Fashioned Root Beer.
> He also acquired a large number of bottles from a defunct
> brewery...these were the shorter "squatty" beer bottles that pre-dated
> modern "long-necks!" They were mostly date-stamped with
> forties dates...but a few actually antedated date stamping...!
> 
> Second...well before my time, my grandparents used to buy "root
> beer extract" and make their own root beer...! One year they tried
> bottling it in beer bottles; this proved spectacularly unsuccessful
> since beer bottles still contain a tiny amount of yeat...and fermentation
> will continue...! They spent the whole sunner listening to bottles
> of root beer exploding in the basement...!
> 
> Steven C. Barr