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Old 23-03-2006, 01:13 PM   #13
rlbell
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Originally posted by TheGiantMidgit@Mar 22 2006, 09:16 PM
I find our law against unamed alcoholic beverages very funny. I mean, this is Canada for *meep*s sake. It's like, basically know for beer and hockey.
The problem is not that the beer is unnamed, but that you are only allowed to mention beer in a beer commercial. The presence of beer in advertising has always been strictly controlled, in Canada.

At first, there was no beer on TV. Then the powers that be relented, so beer ads were an image of the label, or bottle, with a voice over. The next stage were people having fun in a room where beer bottles could be seen. As things became more risque, the people having fun were allowed to hold the beer bottle, which still had its cap on. As I do not watch commercial television, I do not know if the people in beer ads are finally allowed to actually appear to be drinking beer.

Outside of beer commercials, the presence of beer is absolutely forbidden.
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