{"id":71941,"date":"2022-06-12T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=71941"},"modified":"2022-06-11T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T14:07:52","slug":"qotd-zima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/06\/12\/qotd-zima\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Zima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<p><em>There was, however, something perversely enticing about a drink that seemed to come from a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which color did not exist. There was an ingrained assumption that Zima must be expressly targeted at somebody, but nobody knew who that was &#8230; Zima was ridiculous &#8230; but did that actually mean it was brilliant? The only viable conclusion was &#8220;sort of&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s true at first blush, but so douchey that you want it to be wrong just to spite whoever wrote it. I&#8217;ve never wanted a Zima more in my life than I did after reading that passage. But at second glance, it&#8217;s laughably false. Ask anyone who was in college in the 1990s; they&#8217;ll tell you exactly who Zima was &#8220;expressly targeted at&#8221;: Frat bros who were expecting female company. Because it was clear \u2014 no, really, it was beer(-ish) that looked like club soda \u2014 it somehow seemed like &#8220;diet beer&#8221;. Which meant your female party guests were almost guaranteed to have three or four more than they should.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: Zima was the midrange panty dropper. Not as classy as white zinfandel, not as trashy as Boone&#8217;s Farm, there was no other possible reason to have it in your dorm fridge, but it somehow had plausible deniability when you offered it to her as a light refreshment. If Klosterman ever had sex at any time between January 1, 1990 and December 31, 1999, he knows this. There&#8217;s no way he doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/24\/a-meta-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Meta-Review&#8221;, <em>Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-02-24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was, however, something perversely enticing about a drink that seemed to come from a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which color did not exist. There was an ingrained assumption that Zima must be expressly targeted at somebody, but nobody knew who that was &#8230; Zima was ridiculous &#8230; but did that actually mean it was brilliant? 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