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

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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. :wink:

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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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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.