Brookston Beer Bulletin

Jay R. Brooks on Beer

  • Home
  • About
  • Editorial
  • Birthdays
  • Art & Beer

Socialize

  • Dribbble
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Powered by Head Quarters Built on WordPress
You are here: Home / Beers / What’s Wrong With This Picture?

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

October 28, 2011 By Jay Brooks

beer-and-food
Surely this has happened to you as often as me. You’re at a picnic or buffet and you’re trying to juggle your beer and fill your plate with food. At such times, you wish you had a third hand. So while searching the other day for another image, I stumbled upon this on a Tumblr blog, but there was no original link or any information about it; just the picture below:
bottle-snack-tray
So at first glance, it seems like a good idea. With the plastic tray over the bottle, you’d have one hand free to load up on food. But thinking about it a few seconds longer, and it’s not the panacea it first appears to be.

So I ask. What’s wrong with this picture? Well first of all, you shouldn’t be drinking straight from the bottle, though the plate wouldn’t work with most beer glasses, which taper up rather than down. You might be able to put a pint glass upside down over the top of the bottle, but it doesn’t look like the opening in the plastic tray is wide enough to accommodate it then.

But even assuming you were drinking straight from the bottle — perhaps you’re at a picnic in a park and have no choice — wouldn’t it be easy to forget about the food and take a swig, and in the process dump all the food on the ground? But maybe it’s just useful to load up on the food in the buffet line and carry it a spot where you can sit and eat with your beer. Either way, what looks to be the solution to we’ve all had countless times may not quite solve it after all. What do you think? Boom or bust?

Filed Under: Beers, Food & Beer, Just For Fun Tagged With: Food, Humor



Comments

  1. Dave H says

    October 28, 2011 at 11:02 am

    I see a third problem…

    You can’t see the Cold and Super Cold Bars with the tray in the way!

  2. Rev says

    October 28, 2011 at 11:28 am

    All the problems mentioned, plus the fact that a plate of hot food wrapped around your beer is going to warm it up right quick.

  3. okobojicat says

    October 28, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    As it is clearly a Budweiser bottle in the pic (bow tie) I think we’re clearly the wrong audience for this product. The best solution, as always, is to have the girlfriend carry the beer while you fill your plate. 🙂
    Or never leave the house. That’s probably safer.

  4. el gordo says

    October 28, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Why don’t you drink straight from the bottle? That’s how we do it in Texas…

    • Jay Brooks says

      October 28, 2011 at 1:54 pm

      You’re kidding, right?

      • Adam Keele says

        December 4, 2011 at 10:42 am

        It’s socially acceptable to drink wine and whiskey from the bottle too, right? That’s how I drink my Cantillon!

        Seriously though, wouldn’t that be hilarious (and sad at the same time) to see someone using this thing with a bottle of Cantillon?!?

  5. tim from florida says

    October 28, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    The trick is to use the beer bottle as a plate holder, then put the whole thing on the table while you pour your real beer. Meanwhile, the bottle beer is helping keep the ants from your plate of food!

  6. cTwice says

    October 28, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    Get a sturdier plate. Slip the pint glass through the hole and hold the plate.

  7. Marty Weigel says

    October 29, 2011 at 7:51 am

    It’s just a Bud…..add a long straw.

  8. Tom Dalldorf says

    October 29, 2011 at 9:59 am

    I tried it (in the interest of science) and when I tipped the beer up to drink all the food fell on my tummy. What am I doing wrong?

  9. BikerAggie says

    October 31, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    I have seen a similarly inspired multi-tool at wine events. It looks like an artists board, with a hole through it on one side for your thumb, for a secure grip. On the other side it has a “c” shaped opening to hang your wine glass off of. I think it is really a pretty brilliant solution. Both force serial consumption of your food and drink, rather than parallel consumption. That’s the normal method anyways, so I don’t see a problem 🙂

  10. beerman49 says

    January 22, 2012 at 1:22 am

    2 comments:

    1. BikerAggie is right on about the wine event multi-tool; I bought some in the 80’s when I was going annually to the now-extinct KQED Wine & Food Festival.

    2. If you’re outside in warm weather, your beer, assuming it’s in a dark brown bottle, will stay cooler in the bottle than it would in a clear glass. If you insist on drinking beer out of a glass, keep it small & away from a direct sun hit, & keep the bottle out of a direct sunlight hit. I drink before/after I eat, rarely while eating (the opposite from my childhood, when I washed damned near every bite w/a slug of milk).

  11. Bob Skilnik says

    April 6, 2013 at 7:32 am

    If you shake it up and down will the head foam? Is this something you do when you drink alone?

Trackbacks

  1. And, Lo, A Prophet Proclaimed “Remember Knaust!” | Arizona.BeerBlogNews.com says:
    October 29, 2011 at 3:27 am

    […] an aspect of pop culture that both pervades and yet lays below the surface. Jay reminds today us of both ends of that continuum. So, in another way, does Simon. Stan takes it (Read […]

Find Something

Northern California Breweries

Please consider purchasing my latest book, California Breweries North, available from Amazon, or ask for it at your local bookstore.

Beer Bulletin Email

Enter your email address to receive daily digests:

Recent Comments

  • Susan Appel on Historic Beer Birthday: John Roehm
  • S. Pavelka on Beer Birthday: Rich Norgrove
  • Celebrating Texas History With Alamo Beer: An Iconic Taste Of The Lone Star State – SanctuaryBrewCo on Fictional Beer Brands
  • Neal Carey on Historic Beer Birthday: Anton Zahm
  • Experience The Taste Of Duff Beer: Limited-Edition Cans And Home Brewing Kits – SanctuaryBrewCo on Fictional Beer Brands

Recent Posts

  • Beer Birthday: Logan Plant January 27, 2023
  • Historic Beer Birthday: Henry Hubach January 27, 2023
  • Beer Birthday: Peter Kruger January 27, 2023
  • Beer In Ads #4333: Miss Rheingold 1955 Meets A Host Of Thoroughbreds January 26, 2023
  • Beer Birthday: Bob Uecker January 26, 2023

Tag Cloud

Advertising Anheuser-Busch Announcements Bay Area Belgium Brewers Association Brewing Equipment Budweiser Business California Christmas Europe France Germany Guinness Health & Beer History Holidays Hops Humor Infographics Kegs Law Mainstream Coverage Miller Brewing Northern California Pabst Packaging Patent Pennsylvania Press Release Prohibitionists Rheingold San Francisco Schlitz Science Science of Brewing Sports Statistics The Netherlands UK Uncategorized United States Video Washington

The Sessions

session_logo_all_text_1500

Next Session: Dec. 7, 2018
#142: One More for the Road
Previous Sessions
  • #141: Future of Beer Blogging
  • #140: Pivo
  • #139: Beer & the Good Life
  • #138: The Good in Wood
  • #137: German Wheat
Archive, History & Hosting

Typology Tuesday

Typology-png
Next Typology:
On or Before March 29, 2016
#3: Irish-Style Dry Stout
Previous Typologies
  • #2: Bock Feb. 2016
  • #1: Barley Wine Jan. 2016
Archive & History

This month’s posts

January 2023
S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Dec    

BBB Archives