If everyone is functional then yeah. But when your coworker is getting the shakes at 7 pm and the owner tells the bartender to slip him a snake bite in his coffee just so he can get through service, then there's usually some problems at that place lol.
When I was bartending, there was a customer who would order a *snake bite* shot which was a shot of Yukon Jack and a splash of lime juice. It's interesting that it's come to mean so many other things.
You better believe it! I bartended anywhere from some very high-end steakhouses (think $70 Filet, $140 44oz Tomahawk, or a dry-aged 40oz Porterhouse for $185 a la carte) to casino bars, dive bars, party bars, and nightclubs.
I could be misunderstanding that term. I got it from Hateful Eight when Kurt Russel's character asks that chick if she wants a little snake bite, and then he pulls out a flask and pours a couple glugs in her coffee for her 🙂
[This article](https://whiskyadvocate.com/the-whisky-lovers-quentin-tarantino-companion) says Tarantino most likely meant whiskey and that it may even be a reference to an actual snake bite from Kill Bill vol. 2.
Thanks, I enjoyed this rabbit hole!
Living in London in the 80's and not really into beers or getting hammered ahead of everyone from drinking jack and coke the snakebite was hard cider and ale 1/2&1/2 in a pint glass.
One thing I miss about one of my old jobs was that closing beer. Post-service on weekend nights, we'd all grab a round from the bar, take good 10 minute smoke break and unwind and then crank the volume up on the speakers and get to closing.
I meant places where the crew drinks during service. A closing beer is nice. I've worked places where we started drinking at about 6 when we wouldn't get out of there until 11 or midnight. It got ugly.
We had a spot in my town that kept a cooler of pbrs on the line for the kitchen. It was fun outside of the rampant sexual harassment, occasional shouting matches, pans thrown across the room, dicking around during close while the one person that wants to go home does the cleaning. They eventually took it away
My guy here! I'm so functional I put down a 12 rack most days and run lead on line after my double clopen
To bad no one around me can see my problems... Stupid work ethic
Oh I know that. I spent two weeks in Berlin. Bottled water was more expensive than beer near rosenthaler platz. Shit a doner was cheaper than a pack of bottled water.
Maintain your diet with fistfulls of raw broccoli and microgreens. Sprouted grain salad bloody red meat and fish.
Alcohol will kill us painfully 20 years before our time. Do it right. Stretch, exercise, and fuck as much as you can.
PBR is still hipster. Bud/Busch is for the rednecks. Steel for actual alchys. Natty/highlife for poors/ people trying to save a buck. Old Milwaukee for the OGs.
It’s been a couple years since I hit the bars in Brooklyn regularly, but the cheap beers at the time were Tecate, Modelo, Bud, Coors, etc. PBR trailed off in like 2010-15ish.
Back in like 2010-2011 it was big in all the punk rock clubs and stuff. You could get a pint for a dollar so that's what we drank. More than once we had dead shows and got paid with a case of PBR because hardly any money came in the door.
I bought a case once, it was a few pennies cheaper than bud/miller/coors/etc. I did live in a college town, though; so maybe they were just pricing for what the local market would bear.
Thanks for that /s. I wasn't sure whether or not you were being serious with the "ah, yes" you wrote at the beginning of the comment, but you cleared things right up.
I bought a case maybe 10 years ago, it was only a buck or so cheaper than a case of bud/miller/coors/etc. But I did live in a college town then, so apparently that's what college kids were willing to pay.
Not really. It’s a blue-collar, American-made, cheap beer. It’s incredibly easy to understand why it became “hip”. It matches perfectly with the tattoo covered, working man “aesthetic”. Perfect for cooks and other hipsters that don’t have money.
Basically this, only
Bought PBR because it was cheap as all fuck and still didnt taste like complete piss.
But, I do not look like a Hipster at all. Blue-Collar Canadian look
Red and black plaid lumberjack shirt, suspenders, work jeans, work boots, and a beard was peak early-era hipster. They were hipster before being hipster was cool.
If you're interested, [it's only sorta organic](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/the-marketing-of-no-marketing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s00.BAts.BB370PBVL-UY&smid=url-share).
Tl;dr: PBR ad types noticed the gradual growth and did a phenomenal job of fostering it without stomping in with big ad boots on.
I feel like the pbr cancels the pretentiousness. But also if I work in a kitchen with prestigious product and get to experience it, fuck you let us have this.
Soooooooo….I’m stepping in from an owner’s perspective and here it is:
Everybody in my restaurants are allowed 1 shift drink. Whether they want it at the beginning, the end, the middle…I don’t fucking care. It keeps up morale, adds an air of “the boss is cool” and doing a shot with your coworkers is always fun.
Don’t hate, it is what it is.
If you're shotgunning any beer at work you have a serious problem. I would quit a place like that. Been there done that, glorifying getting wasted is for losers.
I like cheap beer and I like seltzer, and my place doesn’t have a soda gun. So if they wanna let me slam sparkling ‘togas and cans of domestic swill. That’s what I’ll do. Simple as.
Idk what Saratoga is and at this point…. I’ve never seen this water… is it some European thing I’m too Texan to see?? ‘Round here we drink topo chico lol
OK but it is really pretentious lol. Like y'all do what you like, but PBR is disgusting and tap water is fine. If you disagree with one of these points, you must agree with the other or your decisions aren't actually real decisions, they're just hipster bullshit.
OK but if you're too good for tap, you're too good for PBR. If you're good enough for PBR, you're good enough for tap. Like let's pretend we can't possibly fathom tap water, but also let's chug a beer fathoms worse than Miller high life just because it makes me seem rustic. Like fuck off. Drink tap, drink real beer.
Kitchens that let you drink are fun unless you are the one who opens in the morning.
If everyone is functional then yeah. But when your coworker is getting the shakes at 7 pm and the owner tells the bartender to slip him a snake bite in his coffee just so he can get through service, then there's usually some problems at that place lol.
What do you mean by a snake bite? As a bartender, to me it means a pint of half cider, half Guinness, and I can’t imagine that going into coffee!
When I was bartending, there was a customer who would order a *snake bite* shot which was a shot of Yukon Jack and a splash of lime juice. It's interesting that it's come to mean so many other things.
This is the Snake Bite I know, I bartended in Vegas from 1997-2017.
You must have some wild stories
You better believe it! I bartended anywhere from some very high-end steakhouses (think $70 Filet, $140 44oz Tomahawk, or a dry-aged 40oz Porterhouse for $185 a la carte) to casino bars, dive bars, party bars, and nightclubs.
That's what one was when I tended bar in Cali in the 90's.
I could be misunderstanding that term. I got it from Hateful Eight when Kurt Russel's character asks that chick if she wants a little snake bite, and then he pulls out a flask and pours a couple glugs in her coffee for her 🙂
[This article](https://whiskyadvocate.com/the-whisky-lovers-quentin-tarantino-companion) says Tarantino most likely meant whiskey and that it may even be a reference to an actual snake bite from Kill Bill vol. 2. Thanks, I enjoyed this rabbit hole!
So 'spicing' it up
I was confused. Where I'm from, snake bites are like boneless wings. Instead of sauce, it's got spices and jalapeños in the breading.
That sounds incredible
Living in London in the 80's and not really into beers or getting hammered ahead of everyone from drinking jack and coke the snakebite was hard cider and ale 1/2&1/2 in a pint glass.
You mean a Poor Man's Black Velvet?
Here Black Velvet is some terrible cheap whiskey. You have made me curious about what stout and champagne would taste like though.
It was my grandfather's favorite! He bought handles by the case.
A snake bite in UK is half lager, half cider with a splash of blackcurrant cordial. I like the mental image of putting that in a coffee!
We called that diesel, with out the black currant was snake bite. If I recall correctly....
A half later ? How do you put a segment of time in a coffee?
He'll take half now, and half later
Oooft, I’ve seen em shake at 7am
Yea slippin booze in peoples coffee is pretty dubious.
There several things going on here.
One thing I miss about one of my old jobs was that closing beer. Post-service on weekend nights, we'd all grab a round from the bar, take good 10 minute smoke break and unwind and then crank the volume up on the speakers and get to closing.
Same here. It sucked and didn’t suck at the same time somehow.
I meant places where the crew drinks during service. A closing beer is nice. I've worked places where we started drinking at about 6 when we wouldn't get out of there until 11 or midnight. It got ugly.
I wasn't supposed to drink but my God did I clean better when I did
Those closing drinks are my favorite part of the night. That and a couple hits off the pen have me closing in hyper mode
Sorry, I should have stated my drinks were open, during and closing hah
Yeah I don’t drink much during main part of shift, just smoke a fuck ton
I can't smoke too much anymore or I spend half my day in the walk-in trying to figure out why I'm there lol
I simply don't smoke. The frustration I get with myself isn't worth it. Weed is for when I want to turn my work brain off.
I'm fine if I just take a puff or 2 off of the pen but I can't smoke flower before or during anymore
I think it’s mainly the fact that weed helps with my ADHD so I’m able to “lock in” a little easier during a rush
Yeah, I don't have that. Weed makes my brain float on a dream cloud with zero focus.
Dude, relatable. I can't get stoned at work like I used to! Haha
I thought the same thing until I did a clopen and was getting angry until I realized I was that asshole.
Drinks once the cooking is done. You know what motivates a tired cook to mop? A beer.
We had a spot in my town that kept a cooler of pbrs on the line for the kitchen. It was fun outside of the rampant sexual harassment, occasional shouting matches, pans thrown across the room, dicking around during close while the one person that wants to go home does the cleaning. They eventually took it away
[удалено]
Wow you're so cool
definitely not a flex
My guy here! I'm so functional I put down a 12 rack most days and run lead on line after my double clopen To bad no one around me can see my problems... Stupid work ethic
An old friend use to always order “cheap vodka, expensive water” when we’d go out drinking. Cheers and RIP bill! 🍻
No hangover, though!
The “RIP” says it all
That Ween hat makes me happy.
Big jilm!
Down with the Brown
Kitchens turned me on to WEEN. I may never have gotten brown without the line
PRAISE BOOOOGNISH MANG
His shirt is sick too
I think it’s a Billy Strings shirt 🐐
Totally missed that because I didn’t fully open it. Happy now too, good looking out.
ah yes, PBR, a drink well-known for its association with people that have too much money /s
For a while it was the hipster beer of choice. I don’t know about now though, I am so uncool I don’t even know what the hipsters are doing.
as far as I’m concerned PBR is just the most cost-efficient way to get wasted
Local IPA has double the abv and 300 calories $2.25 per pint. I don't even need to eat food anymore.
Where the fuck are you getting $2 pints
Convenience store up on the hill hasn't updated craft beer prices since '22 6 pack is 12.99 four 16oz is 8.99. Glitches my bitches.
Ah grocery store vs bar prices. Got it.
Here in Germany I get a six pack of .5L Hefeweizens for 1.5€, literally cheaper than water
Oh I know that. I spent two weeks in Berlin. Bottled water was more expensive than beer near rosenthaler platz. Shit a doner was cheaper than a pack of bottled water.
That may be the closest sentence I've ever read that reflects my life experience
Maintain your diet with fistfulls of raw broccoli and microgreens. Sprouted grain salad bloody red meat and fish. Alcohol will kill us painfully 20 years before our time. Do it right. Stretch, exercise, and fuck as much as you can.
Truth. I'm well aware. Spending so much time in kitchens. Make sure you eat and.. DRINK WATER!
You should go to burning man one time or get to your regional. Trust
If you like pissing every 20 min…
Nah, bottom shelf vodka cut with water is cheaper. 🍸
High Life
Ever hurd of rubbing alcohol ore mouth wash lol technically just has bad and dangerous if you ask me
I think they try to drink the most bitter IPAs they can manage without making a face. If you make a face, it's a sign of weakness
Nah IPAs are the finance bro frat dude grown up beer now. PBR is def a hipster beer still especially with them funding so many creative/art projects
PBR is still hipster. Bud/Busch is for the rednecks. Steel for actual alchys. Natty/highlife for poors/ people trying to save a buck. Old Milwaukee for the OGs.
It’s been a couple years since I hit the bars in Brooklyn regularly, but the cheap beers at the time were Tecate, Modelo, Bud, Coors, etc. PBR trailed off in like 2010-15ish.
Back in like 2010-2011 it was big in all the punk rock clubs and stuff. You could get a pint for a dollar so that's what we drank. More than once we had dead shows and got paid with a case of PBR because hardly any money came in the door.
The hipsters are drinking Natty Ice now.
...so you're saying you were uncool before it was cool?
It’s because all of us are trust fund babies who just pretend to be poor obvs
9 bucks for a 30 rack in Wisconsin around the turn of the millennium. Didn’t know it was a trend until I went to college.
I bought a case once, it was a few pennies cheaper than bud/miller/coors/etc. I did live in a college town, though; so maybe they were just pricing for what the local market would bear.
Thanks for that /s. I wasn't sure whether or not you were being serious with the "ah, yes" you wrote at the beginning of the comment, but you cleared things right up.
Yeah but it’s not as fun when everyone knows
I coulda told ya that dude liked ween without the hat. PBR is God's gift to the service industry.
its so weird that pbr gained a hipster reputation lol
It was the $1 beer at bars across the country for many years. That led to folks embracing it as a cool, working class bona fide.
Please Don't Gentrify My PBR I'm Still Broke
I bought a case maybe 10 years ago, it was only a buck or so cheaper than a case of bud/miller/coors/etc. But I did live in a college town then, so apparently that's what college kids were willing to pay.
Not really. It’s a blue-collar, American-made, cheap beer. It’s incredibly easy to understand why it became “hip”. It matches perfectly with the tattoo covered, working man “aesthetic”. Perfect for cooks and other hipsters that don’t have money.
Basically this, only Bought PBR because it was cheap as all fuck and still didnt taste like complete piss. But, I do not look like a Hipster at all. Blue-Collar Canadian look
That’s what hipsters looked like back in like 2012 though
Red and black plaid lumberjack shirt, suspenders, work jeans, work boots, and a beard was peak early-era hipster. They were hipster before being hipster was cool.
If you're interested, [it's only sorta organic](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/the-marketing-of-no-marketing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s00.BAts.BB370PBVL-UY&smid=url-share). Tl;dr: PBR ad types noticed the gradual growth and did a phenomenal job of fostering it without stomping in with big ad boots on.
I love it, bar near my old kitchen would do 1.25 pints on tap
A 12 pack of PBR costs 9 dollars
Like most sophisticated assholes I prefer my PBR with a lime wedge. Cheers
A barfly I was drinking next to once shared his secret: a tiny pinch of salt. Really did the trick.
I feel like the pbr cancels the pretentiousness. But also if I work in a kitchen with prestigious product and get to experience it, fuck you let us have this.
Never had that brand but I personally drink San Pellegrino like my life depends on it.
AND listening to Ween? Sign me up!
WEEN HAIL BOOOOOGNISH!!!
dude with a WEEN hat is top notch
I mean .... I like PBR
If there’s a guy with a ween hat in the kitchen, there’ll always be good tunes.
I feel attacked
Soooooooo….I’m stepping in from an owner’s perspective and here it is: Everybody in my restaurants are allowed 1 shift drink. Whether they want it at the beginning, the end, the middle…I don’t fucking care. It keeps up morale, adds an air of “the boss is cool” and doing a shot with your coworkers is always fun. Don’t hate, it is what it is.
25yo me has a crush on the guy in the ween hat.
Looks like a Fernet shot..
I used to have that same Ween hat.
Saratoga ❤️
sharing a tea kettle full of Cointreau and Sunny D with my mates in the walk in when I worked in cruise galleys is one of my fondest memories.
Maybe it’s leftover water from tables. At my old place servers would bring us leftover pellegrinos or aqua panna bottles
If you’re not shotgunning hot natty light behind the dumpster, you’re just not living.
who cares?
Do not drink on the job.
The first time I had Saratoga water I saw god. It’s so good.
Hey that's me!
We love you here at Mo’s, Mr. Cycle!
I get your point though
💕✨
Just let people have fun
If you're shotgunning any beer at work you have a serious problem. I would quit a place like that. Been there done that, glorifying getting wasted is for losers.
That is one clean Kitchen! Cheers.
Y’all do y’all. Cheers!
lol I like you
Serious use of the word “pretentious” is **always** a bad sign.
Heyyy, fellow Saratogian!
Your user name does NOT check out.
Wow, that JadedCycle guy sounds like a real dick hole.
Anybody who likes Ween is 1000% not pretentious.
Fart smelling factory was perfect.
For us it was aqua panna
I like cheap beer and I like seltzer, and my place doesn’t have a soda gun. So if they wanna let me slam sparkling ‘togas and cans of domestic swill. That’s what I’ll do. Simple as.
Foosball is the devil
Idk what Saratoga is and at this point…. I’ve never seen this water… is it some European thing I’m too Texan to see?? ‘Round here we drink topo chico lol
Drinking while cooking is sooooooo cool. Sooooo awesome. Soooo professional
If you drink at work, you’re a fucking goof. Do your job, do it correct or get the fuck out. It applies to all Industries.
OK but it is really pretentious lol. Like y'all do what you like, but PBR is disgusting and tap water is fine. If you disagree with one of these points, you must agree with the other or your decisions aren't actually real decisions, they're just hipster bullshit.
I’d argue that PBR and tap water are both *fine*. Not my first choice, but I’d rather have it than not.
OK but if you're too good for tap, you're too good for PBR. If you're good enough for PBR, you're good enough for tap. Like let's pretend we can't possibly fathom tap water, but also let's chug a beer fathoms worse than Miller high life just because it makes me seem rustic. Like fuck off. Drink tap, drink real beer.