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Old Dec 20, 2018 | 12:46 pm
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Originally Posted by milepig
Growing up in a small midwestern town, we had a quaint phrase "everything but" which mean everything except onions. You didn't need to travel too far away to get puzzled looks when you gave that order.
There are parts of Pennsylvania I have visited where you ask for a "lager" and you will get a Yeungling, no questions asked. I tried that elsewhere once, probably somewhere in the southeast, where Yeungling was on tap. The response was "Okay, which lager?". I guess the tap handle came without instructions.
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