My mother-in-law claims Budweiser and Pepsi put a couple of Arab shopkeepers out of business by pulling their products after a Bud deliveryman allegedly found the shopkeepers celebrating the day the WTC came tumblin down. There’s an e-mail going around about it, and when I consulted Snopes, sure enough, it’s a hoax. Problem is, Mom would rather believe the e-mail than Snopes. Anybody have any other links I can use to pooh-pooh this thing?
I doubt you’re going to find one- the Snopes page has a denial from the guy in charge of marketing Budweiser in that area and from Anheuser-Busch that this ever happened. If she doesn’t accept that, there’s probably not much that she will.
Has she said what would convince her that this never happened?
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I doubt you’re going to find one- the Snopes page has a denial from the guy in charge of marketing Budweiser in that area and from Anheuser-Busch that this ever happened. If she doesn’t accept that, there’s probably not much that she will.
Has she said what would convince her that this never happened?
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She hasn’t, but I suspect it would take the priest standing at the altar on Sunday morning – or the Virgin Mary coming to her in a dream. I dunno, there’s just this group of people who so badly want the “average American” to strike back. I honestly think stuff like this is going to get worse as the war in Iraq
What sort of shop was it? It seems a little odd that Pepsi & Budweiser pulling their products could actually put them out of business.
Actually the shopkeepers were on their way to Guantanamo Bay when a UFO abducted them into the Bermuda Triangle.
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there’s just this group of people who so badly want the “average American” to strike back.
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That might be you’re angle. Budwiswer and Pepsi arn’t “average americans.” They’re HUGE companies making alot of money, and they don’t make a lot of money but not selling their products to shopkeepers they don’t like on a pesonal level. Not only would that hurt their cause, it would help out Miller and Coke quite a bit I would think. I’m guessing this isn’t so much a case beleiving email over snopes, but rather just beleiveing what she heard first.