On The Subject of Bud Light Lime

Well, it seems that Anheuser-Busch has decided to follow the visionary trend of taking a crappy beer that tastes pretty much like nothing, and adding some citrus to make it taste a little like what cheap people in cheap restaurants do to tap water in the name of fooling themselves. This is obviously the latest attempt to capture the interest of that fraction of the drinking public that doesn't like beer (read: fifteen-year-old girls, some rich and/or really image-invested gay dudes), and is waiting impatiently for the next rung of the wine cooler-to-Zima-to-Mike's Hard Whatever-to-Bacardi Silver evolutionary ladder to appear on the horizon.

Now, I've been known to drink Bud Light on occasion - and by "on occasion," I mean when it's free, or almost free, or I'm buying beer for several heavy drinkers, or when I'm so broke it's all I can afford to drink and still tip. I don't mind drinking cheap beer. But that's what Bud Light is. It's a utility beer, not a first choice, and putting lime flavor in it isn't going to elevate its status any more than McDonald's putting spicy brown mustard on their cheeseburger is going to make me opt for one when I've got Hardee's Thickburger money in my pocket.

After the jump, ten things I'd rather find in a bottle of Bud Light than a hint of lime: