# What's a Pack of Two-Four (McKenzie Bros 12 Days of Christmas)

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**Created:** [December 14, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-pack-of-two-four-mckenzie-bros-12-days-of-christmas/218860 "2003-12-14T00:41:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-pack-of-two-four-mckenzie-bros-12-days-of-christmas/218860/21 "2003-12-15T20:08:39Z")

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Those of you who remember the “Great White North” segments on SCTV should also remember the favourite brands of Bob and Doug, which were prominently displayed on the set: Molson Canadian, with the occasional Labatt Blue. Very common and widely-available mass-market brews–the Canadian versions of Bud and Miller, you might say. Definitely not Tuborg, or anything else imported or fancy.

A two-four is, as others have said, a case holding 24 beers. “Six packs of two-four” is a usage I’ve never heard outside the McKenzie Brothers’ song–it’s more common to say, “Six two-fours.” But I guess it makes the rhythm work.

And it’s certainly easier to say after you’ve had a few. 😉

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-pack-of-two-four-mckenzie-bros-12-days-of-christmas/218860/22 "2003-12-15T20:54:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Spoons \*  
> \*\*Those of you who remember the “Great White North” segments on SCTV should also remember the favourite brands of Bob and Doug…  
> …And it’s certainly easier to say after you’ve had a few. 😉 \*\*

Send some down, eh? Labatt’s in the USA is Miller Beer. And the Molson - even in New York - is not the same. I have a tape of those guys at “My Father’s Place” in their ‘tour’. I reckon they dissed the local beer too.

In their movie _Strange Brew_ - the beer was Elsinore. A rather fine, subtle mind-controlling lager.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-pack-of-two-four-mckenzie-bros-12-days-of-christmas/218860/23 "2003-12-16T03:32:15Z")

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> Very common and widely-available mass-market brews–the Canadian versions of Bud and Miller

Bite your tongue! That’s like saying Dom Perrignon is the French version of Thunderbird wine.

We have 2-4’s of beer here in Alberta, although most of the people I know call a 2-4 a ‘flat of beer’, because it’s usually shipped on a cardboard flat of two cases.

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