I stand corrected. (How does it taste, by the way? My husband has loved Pilsner Urquell ever since his parents were stationed in Prague.)
Budvar is my favorite Czech beer...I'm not a big fan of PU, so mileage may vary.
Apparently Budvar is also sold as Crystal here; but my local beer place sells them both for different prices and claims they're different beers. I'm confused about that.
eta: I never said how it tasted. It's darker, a little sweeter. What I'd really like to see here is Black Budvar.
(How does it taste, by the way? My husband has loved Pilsner Urquell ever since his parents were stationed in Prague.)
Suffice it to say that I liked it so much, I joined the company.
....ah, happy days. My boss used to randomly offer me a beer in the middle of the afternoon, and he and I would sit there sipping our beverages and making a cock up of the invoices and all was right with the world. Gotta love those Central Europeans with their approach to the work ethic. Bless.
you'd swear everyone there thinks he'd be laird of Glenwhatever if he only had his rights,
Okay. I own that I'm willfully repressing all memories of every having to hang with this sort of peep.
Willfully.
On purpose.
For reasons that should be obvious to the layest of laymen.
I second Typo Boy's rec on Highland Laddie Gone.
I am the Garrison of Garrison (twelve times removed through the female line), and I decree that it's time to go read something.
Not just theirs.
Ok, how about this? They now have the right to use it to sell food in countries where they have been given the trademark. That property right is theirs. They don't own the right to use it as a last name. Just to sell food.
I guess I have a problem with a foreign company challenging the right of an actual McDonald highlander to use their clan name.
In Jamaica, we held Mickey D's from using the name for years. It's *not* a Scottish we-had-the-name-first thing at all. And it's not an our-family-is-so-powerful thing either, since a) irrelevant to corporate America and b) not true, as you admit.
Whoa. This is some thread drift.
I have no idea what my point was.
Zoe-it's kind of like here in America when an actor joins the union. Each actor has to have a different name so there is no confusion (otherwise half the actors in the world would change their name to George Clooney). A friend went to join and his name, the name he had been known by for 21 years, was already taken, so he used a nickname and his father's name and came up with Jason Alexander. A week later another actor, actually named Jason Alexander (he is the son of a pretty well-known amercian actress named Jane Alexander) went in , but of course his name was already taken. It doesn't mean his name isn't a good and noble one, just that someone had prior legal claim to it for purposes of business. That's all trademarks are--they serve to avoid fraud.
