# Zima is dead and society is to blame **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2008, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480 "2008-12-03T08:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/41 "2008-12-03T17:02:53Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > BONGING in college. Not boning. :o Kee-RIST I’m glad you cleared that up. I just got a headache trying to wrap my mind around what this meant! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/42 "2008-12-03T17:12:11Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Kee-RIST I’m glad you cleared that up. I just got a headache trying to wrap my mind around what this meant! Yeah, that was kind of an important ‘G’ I left out. 😃 Although, come to think of it, either way would make sense. Sort of. “Hold on, honey. I gotta finish getting drunk. Luckily I’m drinking a Zima, so there’s no foam and I can slam it faster. While you wait, please enjoy the rhythmic stylings of my thumb.” ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/43 "2008-12-03T17:31:56Z")
We used to mix it with vodka–not too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/44 "2008-12-03T17:50:40Z")
You may mock Zima but you should know that 83.7% of the boobies in all of the Girls Gone Wild videos are there because those girls are drunk on Zima. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/45 "2008-12-03T17:55:22Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > You may mock Zima but you should know that 83.7% of the boobies in all of the Girls Gone Wild videos are there because those girls are drunk on Zima. That must be why my kids always referred to it as “Cheerleader Beer”. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/46 "2008-12-03T18:07:31Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > The reason I know this is I did the Coors tour almost every day for 5 years > [@neutron\_star](#): > > Why would you do this? Must have been for the free beer. That’s the only reason _I’d_ ever drink fucking Coors. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/47 "2008-12-03T18:46:47Z")
> [@neutron\_star](#): > > People waste _far_ too much time caring about, and being elitist and/or offended by, other people’s taste buds when it comes to alcohol. > > e: and no, I’ve never even tried Zima, so it’s not about that Normally I would agree, except with regards to everything, not just alcohol. But there is a time and place for everything, and a freshman college dorm is _exactly_ the time and place to rip on a guy for putting candy in his girl beer. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/48 "2008-12-03T18:52:20Z")
I never tried Zima either. My lone bit of Zima trivia is that its name was coined by television writer Jane Espensen (_Buffy_, _Gilmore Girls_, and _Battlestar Galactica_, and many others) back when she worked in advertising. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/49 "2008-12-03T19:11:26Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > I never tried Zima either. My lone bit of Zima trivia is that its name was coined by television writer Jane Espensen (_Buffy_, _Gilmore Girls_, and _Battlestar Galactica_, and many others) back when she worked in advertising. Really? It means “winter” in several Slavic languages. Kind of a weird choice. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/50 "2008-12-03T19:19:56Z")
It was drinking a six pack of Zima that made me drunk enough to risk asking my wife out for the first time. For that it gets a pass from me. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/51 "2008-12-03T19:23:39Z")
That stuff was really popular when it first came out, at least in my circle of 16 year old friends. It didn’t taste as sour as beer or as nasty as hard alcohol did to us back then. We used to have bottle chugging contests with it, I think the fastest was around two seconds. The next time I saw it was in a bar in Oregon where it was a drink special with the Jolly Rancher thing going on, but it looked more like a choking hazard to me than anything else. Oh, and somewhere in my collection of stuff I have one of those backlit dry erase signs that was made as a Zima promotion. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/52 "2008-12-03T19:43:06Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Really? It means “winter” in several Slavic languages. Kind of a weird choice. Why is that a weird choice for a clear, cold beverage? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/53 "2008-12-03T19:53:38Z")
I tried it once. I didn’t exactly **dis** like it . . . In fact, it was so completely uninteresting I never wanted another. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/54 "2008-12-03T20:03:29Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “Hold on, honey. I gotta finish getting drunk. Luckily I’m drinking a Zima, so there’s no foam and I can slam it faster. While you wait, please enjoy the rhythmic stylings of my thumb.” Christ. I have a cold, so I cough when I laugh, and I’m now choking to death. And at work, so I’m stifling it, too. I raise my glass of spit-flavored crap to you, HL. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/55 "2008-12-03T20:07:59Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Finally…proof. I actually WAS the only person who liked ZIMA. ☹ Nope, I liked it too. Of course I don’t like actual beer, but I like faux/malt type stuff like Zima. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/56 "2008-12-03T20:16:42Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I wondered what Zima tasted like & was about to buy a pack a few years ago. The clerk talked me out of it. You owe him a thank you note. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/57 "2008-12-03T20:29:51Z")
So if Smirnoff Ice is still selling, (or at least available) can we assume Zima died of its own lame-ass marketing image and consequent popularity among trendoid idiots? I drank some once. It was ok. Not great. Vodkatonic has everything it has and then some. It just isn’t as cheap and you can’t dance with a glass in your hand. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/58 "2008-12-03T20:33:11Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > So if Smirnoff Ice is still selling, (or at least available) can we assume Zima died of its own lame-ass marketing image and consequent popularity among trendoid idiots? See post #19 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/59 "2008-12-03T20:45:00Z")
So basically, we’re dancing on the grave of Dracula, when all the bloodthirsty monsters he spawned are still wreaking havoc in the world? OK, suits me. I’ll have a… beer. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/60 "2008-12-03T21:00:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Zima is dead and society is to blame Very well, we’ll be arresting them too. /Detective Parson [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480.md?page=4)