# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/81 "2008-12-04T14:19:40Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > I never tried it. My only Zima recollection is Dennis Miller tasting one (or water in a Zima bottle) during Weekend Update and saying it tasted like Zhit. Wasn’t that Kevin Nealon? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/82 "2008-12-04T14:45:49Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I did, that’s why I posted. :rolleyes: I don’t think I would like you very much in real life if you rolled your eyes at me everytime I agreed with you. Try it with the ladies, though, and let me know how it works out. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/83 "2008-12-04T18:09:01Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Wasn’t that Kevin Nealon? Hmm. Maybe. I remember it as Dennis, but I could be wrong. After all, I was wrong about remembering those space aliens I used to play with. It turns out they were really Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/84 "2008-12-04T19:27:10Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > We used them for boning in college. No foam meant less waiting with your thumb in the hole. I’m glad you issued the follow-up correction. I was afraid you used it to mask the flavor of the GHB or something. God knows you couldn’t get even a freshman girl to drink enough of it to talk her into boning if she wasn’t already of a mind. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/85 "2008-12-04T19:40:26Z")
Best description of Zima ever: > [@](#): > > Unfortunately for Coors, most of those drinkers tried it only once, since straight Zima tasted like tinfoil soaked in Fresca. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/86 "2008-12-04T19:41:30Z")
> [@FallenAngel](#): > > I’m glad you issued the follow-up correction. I was afraid you used it to mask the flavor of the GHB or something. God knows you couldn’t get even a freshman girl to drink enough of it to talk her into boning if she wasn’t already of a mind. Heh, for some of the girls I’ve known you wouldn’t have had to hide the taste of the GHB. Of course you don’t want to take it with alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/87 "2008-12-04T19:59:36Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > Hmm. Maybe. I remember it as Dennis, but I could be wrong. After all, I was wrong about remembering those space aliens I used to play with. It turns out they were really Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors A quick Google search confirms Nealon, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/88 "2008-12-04T20:12:45Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > 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. And I’m having stomach pains, and convulsing in laughter made them worse! Thanks a LOT, **Happy**! :rolleyes:😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/89 "2008-12-04T21:16:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [But what if there wasn’t any beer?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDzo1xKJhF0) You know, I remember that ad! It made me laugh all over again, watching it now. But Zima? I never ever even had a zip of the ztuff. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/90 "2008-12-04T21:37:24Z")
Zima was still around? Preposterous. Next you’ll be trying to tell me ER is still on the air. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/91 "2008-12-04T22:10:17Z")
1993, layover in the Minneapolis airport en route to my honeymoon. I got asked to do a product test for alcoholic beverages. I like to think that my horrified response to Miller Clear had some small part in it’s demise. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480/92 "2008-12-09T05:08:55Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > To each his own and all, but beer is utter swill to me. Looks and tastes like piss. Wheat soda is what I call it. Bleeech! Most beer is made with barley, btw. I haven’t tasted piss myself, but I don’t imagine that beer tastes anything like it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zima-is-dead-and-society-is-to-blame/475480.md?page=4)