# An old cecil or staff column about urine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 24, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915 "2004-09-24T18:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/1 "2004-09-24T18:34:28Z")
Last night the wife and I are watching the Family Guy. Peter, Joe & the other guys are hanging out when Peter realizes a “beer” popsickle he ate once was a practical joke. My wife is wondwering how he wouldn’t have noticed, and I tell her that beer taste like urine, a fact I’m sure I read here. I’ve searched and can’t find it. The winner gets breakfast in bed, so help me out here. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/2 "2004-09-24T19:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > The winner gets breakfast in bed, so help me out here. Over-easy eggs are easiest if you don’t flip them. Just leave the cover on the pan for three minutes after you put the eggs in, and the steam will cook the tops. And if you’re not sure how she likes her toast, it’s better to go too light than too dark. …Or was that not the sort of help you were thinking of? Unfortunately, I don’t think that claim has ever been made on these boards, except in the context of humorous insults of particular brands (How do you make Budweiser? Well, first you feed the Clydesdales Coors…). ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/3 "2004-09-25T00:22:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Over-easy eggs are easiest if you don’t flip them. Just leave the cover on the pan for three minutes after you put the eggs in, and the steam will cook the tops. And if you’re not sure how she likes her toast, it’s better to go too light than too dark. > > …Or was that not the sort of help you were thinking of? Unfortunately, I don’t think that claim has ever been made on these boards, except in the context of humorous insults of particular brands (How do you make Budweiser? Well, first you feed the Clydesdales Coors…). It wasn’t the board. it was a mailbag question answered by cecil or the staff. the original question was something else bu that came up near the end. I even remember the response along the lines of “… yes it does taste like beer, cold or otherwise.” ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/4 "2004-09-25T07:24:28Z")
The only one like that I remember is Gaudere’s [Is light beer made by watering it down?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mlitebeer.html) > [@](#): > > Oh, come on, I thought everybody knew how light beer was made. All you need is a bucket of regular beer, a thirsty horse, and an empty bucket. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/5 "2004-09-25T20:54:02Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Over-easy eggs are easiest if you don’t flip them. Just leave the cover on the pan for three minutes after you put the eggs in, and the steam will cook the tops. But that is cheating – those are NOT over-easy eggs. Done that way, they are called basted or steamed eggs. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/6 "2004-09-26T12:45:56Z")
The closest I can come is Cecil’s column about [Why are men supposed to wash their hands after urination? Plus: urine therapy!](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_220.html) … the stuff at the end about “urine therapy” discusses drinking urine, but since the earlier context is about the awful smell of urine after asparagas, I don’t think this is what you were looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/7 "2004-09-27T00:17:19Z")
Found this at Snopes, FWIW. > **[Urine in Corona Beer](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/urine-in-corona-beer/)** > > Does Corona beer contain urine? > [@](#): > > …Getting back to the beer aspects, among suds drinkers a common insult to hurl at a disappointing brew is to claim it “tastes like warm piss.” (How these aficionados would know what warm piss tastes like doesn’t bear speculating upon.) The connection between beer and urine is twofold: the color of both liquids, plus the causal relationship between the drinking of one to the need to release the other. In Corona’s case, believability is further enhanced by the foaminess of the beverage and how the clear glass bottles showcase the beer’s yellow color. All beer may be yellow, but only Corona visually reminds buyers of this fact even as it passively sits in the bottle. > > Though the slander generally adheres only to Corona, its theme is jokingly referred to in other bits of popular lore. A long-circulated bit of xeroxlore shows a horse drinking out of a bucket labelled “Coors” and simultaneously pissing into one marked “Budweiser”. Such snippets lack the malice of the Corona rumor in that they are framed in such a way no one could take them seriously and are thus clearly intended as humor. By contrast, the rumor about Corona was not presented in a joking fashion — it was an effective slander passed in whispered tones into cupped ears. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/8 "2004-09-27T12:35:48Z")
I’m sure I read in a post here that is you had diabetes _and_ a urinary tract infection, you would urinate alcohol. and that’s how they get budweiser 😃 🆒 I’ll be here all night. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-old-cecil-or-staff-column-about-urine/265915/9 "2004-10-01T20:52:22Z")
You might be thinking of this thread- [Home brewing question. WARNING: X-tremely gromss1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241904&). It’s sort of interesting… in a really icky way.