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soder33

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I saw a posting here about different beers in Minnesota. Grain Belt, Hamms and Schmidt were the most popular when I was a kid, and my Dad had no favorite. But it reminded me of the following incident:

When I was young, my family and my 80 some year old Great Aunt and her foster son were returning to our rural farm in Minnesota, after visiting relatives in Minneapolis. It was late in the afternoon on Palm Sunday and my Great Aunt was concerned about her Easter Sunday dinner. We were driving back on old Highway 8, through Lino Lakes, MN. Now, this was well before I35 was completed, and it was quite a drive to get home. All at once my Great Aunt noticed a small store was open. This was quite odd, as most stores closed on Sundays. She yelled from the back seat of the car for my father to stop.
This place was really a bar with both on and off sale liquor and some small grocery items.
My Great Aunt insisted my Father stop so she could go in to get some items for her dinner. My Father grudgingly complied, mumbling something under his breath about this will take even longer to get home. So off went my Great Aunt and her son into this small establishment. Within a minute, her son came out laughing so hard he was doubled up. My father rolled down his window and yelled out, ?What the heck is so funny.? He came over to the car with tears in his eyes and said, ?Ma went in and no one was in the grocery area, so she went into the bar. The bartender asked her what she needed, and she asked if they had any hams. Sure he said, "6 pack or case.?
 
Good one!---Tee
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Hamms and Schmidt were the beers served Sunday afternoons at my Great Grand parents house. The beer was never cold. My uncles would commented that Great Grandma allowed Great Grampa to keep the bourbon and brandy in her refrigerator but the beer had to be stored in the basement to make enough room for her Jello salads.

Has Minnesota made it legal to sell beer and liquor on Sunday yet? When I lived there it was a biannual topic in every session of the legislature, LOL.
 
I was the youngest of 4 brothers by 13 years to the next one. One Sunday afternoon a cousin stopped over with some Hamms and they were all sitting around under a big walnut tree drinking beer and bs ing. I was probably about six at the time and some body gave me a beer. I was trying to hang with the big boys but eventually slipped behind the tree and dumped the Hamms. Did manage to acquire a taste for beer a few years later though.
 
I still drink the Bear Beer.Have one open right now as a matter of fact, cleaning the shop is dry work.
 
I've got a story about Hamm's beer involving two romantically inclined Native Americans and a canoe, but that's as specific as I can get here...
 
Shocking hay with dad and a couple others, probably 1954 or 1955- Hamms must have had a radio campaign at that time promoting "the kiss of the hops"- Dad soon had converted it to "The hiss of the cops." One of those times I wish I could go back to with a time machine. . .
 
When I was at Atlantic Beach, NC, a buddy and I rented a trailer house on the beach. The original living room had been converted into a bar, with a 12'X20' living room built onto the side.

Behind the bar was a Hamm's Beer sign with the lights that bounced around and frequently coincided to spell "Hamm's Beer. The fellow who owned the trailer was named "Herman", and he was an electrical engineer. He'd gotten into the sign and changed it so it spelled out "Herm's Bar".

That being said, I had a great aunt, now deceased, who had a glass of beer with every meal. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, she had her glass of beer.
 

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