Anyway, he comes by a few minutes later to take our order and ask if we want refills on our beers. Charles and I asked for another Red Stripe, Jason and Rob ordered another Corona, and Terrence held up his bottle and said "Yea, another Negra."
The waiters mouth just dropped. None of us caught what had just happened quite yet - except for Charles. Charles piped right in. "He asked you to run and get him another one, NEGRA!!"
Negra Modelo is a dark mexican beer. Apparantly the waiter not only never heard of it, he thought he had just been seriously insulted.
To clarify, not only is Charles a total wiseass, both he and Terrence are also black. (I don't think it would have been said if they weren't.) After we explained what we were talking about and showing him the bottle, the waiter laughed, then spent the rest of time answering Terrence with "Yessa massa!!! Anything else I can do for you massa??? Thank you, massa!!"
It was a riot, but I guess you had to be there...
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What you are actually saying is that you associate with a person that drinks Red Stripe by choice. The Jamaicans don't even drink that crap.
And do NOT get me started on Corona and other "Mexican" beer, oh what the Hell. We're all friends, right?
"Negra Modelo is a dark mexican beer." You forgot to add that it tastes just like what you would expect something to taste like if it were concocted to have the flavor of something that was brewed in Mexico, which has quite possibly the most rigid standards of cleanliness of anywhere that is not India.
Joe tours the Negra Modelo or any Mexican brewery:
"Ah, yes, Senor Jose, this area is where Paco adds the special ingredient." (picture a small dark fellow with his back turned and he is facing a large vat. Curiously enough, his hands appear to be in front of him somewhere near his waist and there is a strange liquid that appears to be jetting mysteriously from somewhere near where his hands are located at his mid section)
Don't be picking on the Red Stripe!!
(But just to be sure, I do know how they make those beers. Especially disturbing is how they use formaldahide as a preservative in the Corona that gets made in Mexico. Which is why all that beer that is distributed in the states is slightly reformulated to meet our standards and brewed locally after importing the ingredients.)
Add this to the end of your comment: And therefore tastes as if it were filtered through a cheap garden hose that had been lying in the sun during the summer in Florida for two weeks. Blech.
And the reason that they named it "Red Stripe" is because the botulism contained therein causes red stripes and bumps to pop up on your tongue. Just saying.
And the only time that I visited Jamaica, that was the only beer that they served in the whole god-forsaken place. And I drank it, too.
Hooray Beer!
Actually, I like the story even though I wasn't there. Sounds like a fun place, so it was the next best thing!
Betcha that waiter will remember his first night on that job. Probably posted it on his blog too.
OMG. That is TOO funny!
Negra Modelo is a good beer. I don't drink beer, but on the rare chance I do, that is one that I will ask for. That or Amber Bock. :)
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