Comments on: Belgian Beer Night

By: simon

simon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:29:31 +0000

Yeah, I feel so embarrassed about not knowing how to make my underwear last longer. You wouldn’t believe the crippling efect it’s had on my social life…

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:26:12 +0000

“you turn them inside out…”

Amateur.

By: donotfold

donotfold — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:03:56 +0000

Hi Eric, I’m coming to New York in March. We should do it over again (I’m from Belgium) My favourite beers are Chimay Blue, Leffe, Trappist Westmalle and offcourse Stella Artois! Vive la Belgique!!

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:15:35 +0000

That’s pretty interesting about the glasses. Until the night mentioned, I’d never seen nor heard of that custom. Sounds like a clever scam by the Belgian glass-making industry to me. The storage space for enough of each of the 2000 unique glasses must be immense!

Sgazzetti’s probably got some secret ancient Slovene-Argentine, lunar-astronaut, surface-area-multiplying, Möbius-strip underwear folding technique he’s been perfecting just for this purpose. I’m sure he’s way beyond the simple inside-out trick.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:31:20 +0000

Sgazzetti: let me guess - you turn them inside out, right?
Erik: regarding the glasses - EVERY beer in Belgium has its own distinctive glass (and I’m not just talking about having the brand name on the side), and serving a beer in the wrong glass is a major offence. For example - check out the Kwak glass.

By: sgazzetti

sgazzetti — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:19:23 +0000

Count me in on this — I am a huge fan. And I have some interesting ideas on how to make underwear last longer.

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:37:20 +0000

Whoa now! Let’s not rush it! I think we should live together for a little while first.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:30:34 +0000

So you want me to wash your smalls while you go and get drunk? What am I - your wife or something?

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:42:37 +0000

Thanks, but I think I’ll be spending my nights on the sidewalk outside the, appropriately named, Delirium Cafe. I’ll just need your house for my fortnightly shower and laundry load.

By my calculations, I’ll need to average 5.5 beers/day to finish the menu in one year. If I get started early enough in the mornings, I bet I could do it in 9 or 10 months, though.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:24:48 +0000

You should try this place while you’re here. They have over 2000 Belgian beers.
You can stay in our basement, if you bring your own camp bed.