Tears in my Beer

As beer drinkers know, there has been an explosion of "micro-breweries" across the country, touting the fact that they are made right here in (wherever you live, or drink beer)
So, being a sucker for expanding my beer knowledge I spied a new brand in my grocers cooler - "Pamlico", a small river here in eastern North Carolina. The package proclaimed "locally brewed beer" and extolled the beauty and comforts of NC. Only when I got home and pulled out the first bottle did I do my complete review of the label. There in small print was written the expose "brewed in Delaware" "Hi neighbor!" I guess anywhere you can reach by land or sea in less than a day is "local"
I don't know which is more of an insult to our intelligence, calling this "locally brewed" or all the Japanese brands, Fosters, and now even Guiness, brewed in Canada so they can truthfully be called "imported" when they make that great leap south into the USA.
Oh well, in heaven there is no beer - that's why I drink it here.
Chug-a-lug & Pax Vobiscum
RevS

Crappy Crabs

What is "crabmeat?" I can personally name 4 or 5 different types of crabs; blue, stone, dungenes. So, when I look on my grocers shelf and see canned "crabmeat" - what the hell is it? Being from Baltimore I am quite familiar with the "Phillips" name for Chesapeake bay crab (blue calinectus sapidus) restuarants at the "inner harbor" and Ocean city (MD). How pleased I was when I found the Phillips brand crabmeat being sold at my local store here in Greenville NC...until I did a further inspection of the three different grades of meat and found one was a "product of Indonesia, one from India, and the third from Korea." Aghast, I e-mailed Phillips and asked what the devil was up. Their response was that they processed products from all over Southeast Asia. How sad. How deceitful.
Caveat emptor
RevS