Thursday, July 10, 2008

what's your favorite beer?

today i was informed that slugs have a favorite frosty beverage. i'm perfectly serious. according to a very reputable source, slugs like beer and prefer budweiser to any other kind of beer. and how would one know this? well, slugs eat plants and plant people don't like that, so they try to devise clever ways of killing them. providing them with a local watering hole seems to do the trick better than just about anything, so there are things manufactured to trap slugs by luring them in with beer where they can literally drown in their sorrows (or happiness, as the case may be). different kinds of beer have been used, but slugs it seems, have a strong preference. give 'em a bud and they flock to their deaths. if it weren't quite so morbid and well, gross, budweiser might have a good advertising opportunity on their hands. i guess the major down side to dealing with your slug problem this way is the smelly, frothy mess you have to deal with when they start collecting and dissolving in your ingenious slug trap filled with beer.

6 comments:

writer said...

I take it you have Lisa and Mike to thank for this revelation? Hilarious.

VanillaRose said...

slugs have bad taste in beer.

Ashley Ronnell said...

On a related note, slugs taste bad.

monve said...

Wow, I'm surprised Coors hasn't exploited this.

Anonymous said...

I had a Nutbrown something ale today, it was tasty. In fact, I had it while in the company of someone who professed to have no other small critter fear than slugs. "They're just so slimy and gross," she said. I wonder if she knows that they taste bad as well...

Anonymous said...

Note to self: do NOT associate with bud on account of the love I have for slugs; if in contact with one, avoid pouring it out at all costs in order to save some of the cutest (er, well...THE cutest) slimy thing on earth.

Note written and saved. Thanks!