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Aldous_Hoaxley t1_j4zxjv7 wrote

Reply to comment by Langstarr in Woman sues concert venue after getting so drunk she blew up a home, caused $15M in damages by EyeWantItThatWay

That's how I learned to order Tito's instead of Dripping Springs vodka in bars. Trying to pronounce the latter after a few drinks would get me cut off immediately.

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JonnySnowflake t1_j501jah wrote

Same idea, but I switched to Pall Malls in college because I couldn't pronounce "Marlboro" after walking through the cold to get to the gas station

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LovsickPrfectaTerain t1_j502ymq wrote

I never tried. Even if you called me marbleblows they'd sell em. I always called em Marlbros and they still sold em.

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MonsieurReynard t1_j522xxo wrote

The new fun is American spirits. They come in like 24 varieties distinguished by slightly different colored packs. And no one knows the proper name, everyone just says the color. So it's "American Spirit Blue" or "American Spirit yellow." But with so many there are like four shades of blue and four shades of yellow now. And around me the gas stations are mostly staffed by people whose first language is Urdu or Bengali (perfectly nice people, they just don't necessarily know every English color term) and so you get into a whole thing of "American spirit gold, no the darker yellow, no that's like mustard, the GOLD, yeah no, the next one, good now up one row, yeah those." I imagine it would be challenging if you were drunk.

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LovsickPrfectaTerain t1_j54qt1m wrote

Yep. Can't advertise by flavor, no lights or ultralights anymore, especially menthols.

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MonsieurReynard t1_j522akx wrote

I could see "Tito's" going wrong in amusing ways too.

Me I like Tennessee whiskey and bug spray, but it's a beast to order "Jack n Off" when I'm wasted.

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rct1 t1_j527exp wrote

Filing that for the next fishing trip. Cheers

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Thunderhorse74 t1_j51vvv8 wrote

This redditor does local Texas vodka...

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MonsieurReynard t1_j5231wr wrote

You can buy Tito's around me in rural Massachusetts. It's been a national brand for a while now.

ETA I just checked and they now have a ten story distillery and made 3.8 million cases of Tito's last year!

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Welpmart t1_j53ac5z wrote

Checking in from rural Mass, can confirm.

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