"And...er...this stuff? What do you call this?"
"We call it beer," said the crocodile. "What do you
call it?"
The barman wore a grubby shirt and a pair of shorts, and intil he'd
seen a pair of shorts tailored for someone with very short legs and a very long tail
Rincewind hadn't realized what a difficult job tailoring must be.
Rincewind held the beer glass up to the light. And that was the
point. You could see light all the way through it. Clear beer.
Ankh-Morpork beer was technically ale, that is to say, gravy made from hops. It had
texture. It had flavor, even if you didn't always want to know what of. It had
body. It had dregs. You could eat the last half-inch of it with a spoon.
This stuff was thin and sparkly and looked as though someone had
already drunk it. Tasted all right, though. Didn't sit on your stomach the way
beer at home did. Weak stuff, of course, but it never did to insult someone else's
beer.
"Pretty good," he said. (lifted from The
Last Continent by Terry Pratchett isbn 0-06-105048-2)
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