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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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.
That reminds me, need to go to the liquor store tonight.
Gin’ll make you sin.
Makes sense… gin tastes like floor cleaner. You’d have to be crazy to wanna drink it.