Beer Street
Beer Street and Gin Lane are a pair of 1751 engravings by William Hogarth in support of the then-proposed Gin Act 1751. This Act of Parliament made the distillation of gin illegal in England. Beer Street shows a happy city drinking the ‘good’ beverage of English beer, whereas Gin Lane claims to show what would happen if people started drinking gin, a harder liquor. People are shown as healthy, happy and hard working in Beer Street, while in Gin Lane they are scrawny, lazy and acting carelessly, including a drunk mother accidentally sending her baby tumbling to its doom.
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August 1, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Now THIS is how a beer ad should be done. Not those Coors Light queer orgies commercials. Not that I classify Coors Light as a real beer, mind you.
August 1, 2008 at 8:44 pm
That reminds me, need to go to the liquor store tonight.
August 1, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Gin’ll make you sin.
August 2, 2008 at 11:47 am
Makes sense… gin tastes like floor cleaner. You’d have to be crazy to wanna drink it.