Chicago: The Greatest Drinking City in America

Hey, if you're younger than 65 and want to drink Old Style the reason should not be questioned. The makers of that awful swill should be thankful anybody drinks it - ironically or satirically or for any other reason.

 

Stick with shooters. You're in Chicago.

 

Chicago believes it perfected everything.
Let it believe it's the greatest drinking city in the U.S.
The rest of the country is well-accustomed to its feelings of inadequacy.

 

Hoo boy. In that case....

 

You'd win them back by painting your face for the Bears game.

As pretentious as the city itself is, the suburbs are one big meatball fest. I think you would thrive, socially.

 

I can see the refinement just dripping off you. :

 

No reason to eye roll. I am on record, again and again and again and again here, talking about how uncomfortable the foodie culture of the city makes me when I have to engage in it for business or social purposes. I do like a strong beer or a strong cocktail or glass of bourbon or Scotch. But I couldn't describe the "notes" to anyone. I know what I like. But I am not remotely "refined" when it comes to food, admittedly, again and again.

 

I just wish that Mike Royko was around so that we could hear his take on
this foodie culture that you speak of.

 

That column would have been one for the ages.

There was a bar called Brando's that I would occasionally pop into at the end of the work day with a friend that was more of the old-school Chicago bar one thinks of. My friend and I would stop in and kill off a couple of Miller Lites or PBRs after work. But he moved away and it's been awhile since I've stopped in there. So they still exist. That one is on Dearborn, pretty far south, next to a 7-11.

We also used to go to a bar near U.S. Cellular Field before and after games called Jimbo's that was a fairly popular pre- and post-game Sox bar that served beer in cans, without irony.

 

I live right outside one of the douchiest cities in America, and it has honestly never crossed my mind that anyone would drink a beer solely to make an "ironic" statement.

Drink what you want to drink, get drunk and get over yourself.

 

Hipsters.

 

Neighborhood pub sold to owners of hipster bars; Dick weeps: