san miguel – Everything is Broken https://play.datalude.com/blog Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:38:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Oh the horror. https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/09/oh-the-horror/ https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/09/oh-the-horror/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:28:40 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=63 Read more]]> This is the ultimate breakage: a breakage in the beer chain! In a country where cheap beer is a lifeline out of the inefficiency and brokenness, the danger of an interruption in the beer supply cannot be overestimated. Nevertheless I've been noticing dwindling supplies of bottled San Miguel Beer in Manila over the last few weeks, and now virtually every supermarket I visit has empty shelves. A national disaster. No San Miguel Pale Pilsen, no SMB Light, and …. no Super Dry <whimper>.

That's not to say there's no beer at all, mind. There is canned beer, which has always been inexplicably more expensive than bottled beer — around an extra 30%. And of course because of this, its the only beer left on the shelves. And there is foreign beer of course, but who in their right mind would pay 120 pesos for a can of Heineken, when the local brew is a sixth of the price and tastes much better.

I'll investigate further. Questions will be asked. Hang in there fellow Manilans.

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