# This Bud's not for you **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-buds-not-for-you/366798 "2006-07-31T22:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-buds-not-for-you/366798/1 "2006-07-31T22:58:30Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-buds-not-for-you/366798/2 "2006-07-31T23:45:29Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-buds-not-for-you/366798/3 "2006-08-01T02:01:23Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] 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? [/QUOTE] 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 ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-buds-not-for-you/366798/4 "2006-08-01T03:18:32Z")
What sort of shop was it? It seems a little odd that Pepsi & Budweiser pulling their products could actually put them out of business. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-buds-not-for-you/366798/5 "2006-08-01T12:04:45Z")
Actually the shopkeepers were on their way to Guantanamo Bay when a UFO abducted them into the Bermuda Triangle. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-buds-not-for-you/366798/6 "2006-08-01T13:20:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] there’s just this group of people who so badly want the “average American” to strike back. [/QUOTE] 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.