ahhhhhhh great memories....
when I was a small kid, we lived in Cleveland, middle of the city, and dad always had 2 cases of beer in returnable bottles at the time, dropped off on our back porch every other week... one case was always POC.... Pilsner On Call ( many people called it an offensive name, relating to Cleveland)...
the other case would vary, either Carling, or Stroh's... all were Cleveland breweries at the time..
My job was to take the cases immediatly off the porch, and into the yard, and pull out each bottle and wipe it down with dishwater, and then spray the inside of the beer case bottom with Raid Roach killer... and put the bottles all back in before putting it in our enclosed porch for storage...
the beer distribution facilities were notoriously over run with cockroaches, and this had to be done or.... welll..... you'd have roaches... we never did.
this earned me the right to have a glass of beer each night when dad got home... sweeet....
sodapop was pretty much off limits.. it caused cavities, and cost more than beer... or so dad insisted.
when we moved out of the city and out into the rural home of my teen years, mom was a penny pincher, and would no longer buy "name brand" beer for dad, instead she would buy it while grocery shopping, and it would be one of two kinds...
either BEER or beer... both in a white can, with black letters... it was generic.. hilarious, as I always thought the "beer" was much better than the "BEER"...
they were made by.... Carling, and Pabst/Stroh's... go figure...
good job mom.
we never got the BEER with the vertical word here, I think that was Miller, we just had the horizontal word stuff...
http://grub.gunaxin.com/fourteen-dead-beers/44964old dead beers....
our favorite in highschool was another abomination,
all of us had huge chains woven from pull tabs decorating our rooms....and fond memories of puking beer out of our noses....