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Heineken Walk-In Fridge

Published on January 20, 2009 in 2000s, Beer, Commercials, Drinks, Funny, Heineken, Holland and Refrigerators.

With an annual beer production of 139.2 million hectoliters, Heineken ranks as the third largest brewery in the world after SABMiller and InBev, based on revenue. Heineken’s Dutch breweries are located in Zoeterwoude, ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Wijlre. The original brewery in Amsterdam, closed in 1988, is preserved as a museum called Heineken Experience.

A closet (especially in North American usage) is a small and enclosed space, a cabinet, or a cupboard in a house or building used for general storage or hanging clothes. [A] walk-in closet [is] a closet large enough to walk inside to store clothes on two or three sides. They may have lighting, mirrors, and flooring distinct from adjacent rooms.

Refrigerators work by the use of heat pumps operating in a refrigeration cycle. An industrial refrigerator is simply a refrigerator used in an industrial setting, usually in a restaurant or supermarket. It may consist of either a cooling compartment only (a larger refrigerator) or a freezing compartment only (a freezer) or both. The industry sometimes refers to such units as a “cold box” or a “walk-in.” The dual compartment was introduced commercially by General Electric in 1939.

Rainer Beer Motorcycle

Published on January 3, 2009 in 1980s, Beer, Commercials, Drinks, Funny, Motorcycles and USA.

Rainier Brewing Company (1884 – 1999) was a Seattle, Washington, company that brewed Rainier Beer, a popular brand in the Pacific Northwest. Although Rainier was founded in 1884, the Seattle site had been brewing beer since 1878. While the beer enjoys near iconic status, it is no longer brewed in Seattle, nor is the company owned locally.

A motorcycle (also called a motorbicycle, motorbike, bike, or cycle) is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle powered by an engine.

Using the principle of mechanical advantage, transmissions provide a speed-torque conversion (commonly known as “gear reduction” or “speed reduction”) from a higher speed motor to a slower but more forceful output or vice-versa.

R. White’s Secret Lemonade Drinker

Published on December 20, 2008 in 1970s, Commercials, Drinks, Lemonade, Music and UK.

Lemonade is a lemon-flavored soft drink. In Germany, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand the term mainly refers to a colourless, carbonated, sweet soft drink containing either natural or artificial lemon flavor, such as Schweppes Lemonade. 7 Up and Sprite are similar but are lemon-lime flavoured and so arguably not lemonade.

R. White’s Lemonade is a brand of a carbonated soft drink, which is produced and sold in the UK by Britvic. In 1973 the popular Secret Lemonade Drinker advertising campaign was launched, devised by Rod Allen who wrote the slogan. The adverts featured the actor Julian Chagrin, dubbed with the voice of Ross MacManus (father of Elvis Costello). MacManus wrote the song, with his son providing the backing vocals.

Take Home Stones Bitter

Published on October 9, 2008 in 1990s, Beer, Commercials, Drinks, Funny and UK.

Stones Bitter [is] a pale ale of 3.7% ABV originally brewed by William Stones Ltd, Sheffield, UK at the Cannon brewery in the 1940s. The brand is currently brewed under licence from Interbrew at Coors Burton upon Trent plant UK.

Bitter belongs in the pale ale style grouping, though bitter does have a greater variety of strength, flavour and appearance than mainstream pale ale. A bitter can be dark amber, approaching a stout, or be very golden and delicate like a golden summer ale.

Penal labour or penal servitude is a form of unfree labour. The term may refer to two different notions: labour as a form of punishment and labour as a form of occupation of convicts.

Coffee-Mate makes coffee taste great

Published on October 1, 2008 in 1970s, Australia, Coffee, Commercials and Drinks.

Coffee-Mate is a powdered non-dairy creamer manufactured by Nestlé. It was introduced in 1961. Since the product isn’t dairy, it can be left unrefrigerated without spoiling.

Non-dairy creamers are substances which are intended to substitutes for milk or cream as an additive for coffee, or other beverages; they do not contain lactose, and are therefore not considered dairy products.

Much of [Nestlé]‘s public image has been dominated by the world-wide media furore that surrounded the manner in which it sold its breastmilk substitute to developing countries, which led to the Nestlé boycott beginning in 1977.

Rocky Marciano hams it up for Hamms Beer

Published on September 23, 2008 in 1950s, Beer, Boxing, Cartoons, Commercials, Drinks, Jingles, Miller, Sports and USA.

Rocky Marciano (September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit (87.8% knockout rate), remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career.

Hamm’s is the name of a former American brewery in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The original Hamm’s was established in 1865 when Theodore Hamm, a German immigrant, inherited the Excelsior Brewery from his friend and business associate, A. F. Keller. Keller had constructed his brewery over artesian wells in a section of the valley of the Phalen Creek valley near Saint Paul, Minnesota, known as Swede Hollow.