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Illinois man designs beer can coffin
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Bill Bramanti's favorite beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. He loves it.
Really loves it.
So much so that he's already had his coffin specially made, and it's designed to look like a can of the trendy brew. Bramanti isn't sick, so he doesn't plan on needing it just yet. For now he plans to use it as a cooler.
At 5-feet-9 inches tall and weighing 280 pounds, Bramanti has tried it out though.
"I actually fit, because I got in here," Bramanti, 67, of South Chicago Heights said. He threw a party Saturday for friends, featuring his coffin filled with ice and, what else, Pabst Blue Ribbon.
"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42, said.
Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.
The silver coffin is designed with red, white and blue, just like a Pabst can.
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Illinois man designs beer can coffin
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Bill Bramanti's favorite beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. He loves it.
Really loves it.
So much so that he's already had his coffin specially made, and it's designed to look like a can of the trendy brew. Bramanti isn't sick, so he doesn't plan on needing it just yet. For now he plans to use it as a cooler.
At 5-feet-9 inches tall and weighing 280 pounds, Bramanti has tried it out though.
"I actually fit, because I got in here," Bramanti, 67, of South Chicago Heights said. He threw a party Saturday for friends, featuring his coffin filled with ice and, what else, Pabst Blue Ribbon.
"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42, said.
Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.
The silver coffin is designed with red, white and blue, just like a Pabst can.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Find this article at:
www.usatoday.com/news/offb...ffin_N.htm
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Re: Beer casket.
Thu, May 15, 2008 - 3:50 AMEW!!!!
coffins creep me out in the first place (yes, i have death issues--i went to a LOT of funerals as a child) but *trying out* your own coffin? eek.
i'm also not a fashion victim when it comes to beer--i don't drink stuff cuz it's trendy, i drink it because it *tastes good* (pbr doesn't qualify under those terms.)
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 9:45 AMNot fashion nor taste. Indeed
I must admit, there's a local bar that sells dollar PBR's that I buy sometimes. When I’m in the mood and low on cash, I figure its good enough.
I also painted a self-portrait painting of myself as a skeleton in a leather jacket drinking a PBR in one hand, giving a peace sign with the other. -
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 12:08 PM>>>>>>>When I’m in the mood and low on cash, I figure its good enough.
I think $1 is really all that people should pay for when it comes to short term gratification. -
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 8:53 PMi WISH i could get a beer here for $1 (i think that's about .60 euros now?) -
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 9:33 PMI think it is only because they don't tax the drunks as heavily here. -
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 12:07 AMIt is a very unusual price for here as well. Most beers at bars here are between $3.00 and $5.00 a beer.
Taxes are pretty high on alcohol in the United States, but I don't know how it compares to Europe.
The Puritans, to a large degree, established this country. I think much of Europe is actually less puritan in terms of things like alcohol, nudity, and sex than the United States. On alcohol, Italians would never think of making it illegal to drink wine in a park, yet that is the rule here. -
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 1:55 AMit's not the taxes, it's more what steven was saying about the residue of puritanism in the usa. here in spain people treat beer & wine like it doesn't even have alcohol in it--"it's not alcohol, it's just beer/wine!" what is considered "normal drinking" here would be considered beginning stage alcoholism in the states.
$1 beer is "reel-em-in" prices. i think beer is "less bad" for you than a jumbo jack, but i can have two jumbo jacks in fifteen minutes and still be ok drive, legally. maybe i'm just a burger-holic, cuz i don't get a "buzz" off them anymore... -
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 6:54 PMthanks ted. sorry, i assumed it was a commonly known thing.
i haven't been able to eat burgers at mc dognuts since i was a kid. ok, maybe young adult... -
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 8:07 PMI think it is from the fact that Jack in the Box is not nearly as pervasive as McDonalds. -
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Sun, May 18, 2008 - 9:16 AMi'm glad of that (although i like jack's product more.)
while i like being able to get things "from home" (i.e., usa) i really don't like going places and feeling like i've never left based on the shops/restaurants. -
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Sun, May 18, 2008 - 11:02 PMThere is a Jack in the Box on Ocean Street here, but I've never thought of it as a place to eat. I'm both allergic to MSG and not in to eating meat, so that rules out fast food for me. -
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 3:31 PMthey serve non-meat dishes!
fries, salads, other fried things...
...jack's is mostly a guilty pleasure. not available here so it's not a temptation till i return to the states. -
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 3:36 PMEverything has MSG, including fries. Perhaps not salads, but McDonalds even puts sugar on their salads. -
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 3:53 PMI haven't been to a Jack in the Box for a long time. If there is any in SF, it isn't were I go. But since I became vegetarian, I have rarely gone to a large chain fast food place. The salads are pretty lame in those places, and the fried things are mostly fat that happens to contain the item that they are advertising.
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 4:29 PM<but McDonalds even puts sugar on their salads.>
sugar is mcdonald's secret--i don't eat there even when i'm eating fast food.
i said that bad beer is better for you (less bad, actually) than fast food. the problem is having 2 beers makes you "drunk" under alcohol laws in (most of) the usa where as having 2 burgers still allows you to drive legally.
since we're all talking about our eating habits, i live in spain in a village where there isn't a mcdonald's (although there's a burger king--weird) and fast food in our house means either a pastry, a slice of pizza from the argentine pizza place (homemade and GOOD) or homemade samosas from the convenience market owned by pakistani acquaintances. we prepare most of our own meals. -
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Mon, May 19, 2008 - 7:33 PMI would love to know what is on an argentine pizza
Here in San Francisco there is a place called Zante's Pizza. I never have been there, but my partner and I had it delivered a few times. I highly recommend it for any body who is coming here and wants to stay away from the over glorified tourist traps. -
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argentine pizza
Tue, May 20, 2008 - 5:01 AMit's not so much what's ON it, but the way they make it. the crust is more like bread than "crust."
the popular toppings with us are tomato & garlic (there's basil in there too) or tuna (very common here, i NEVER see it in the states.) there's a spinach pizza that we'd eat if it weren't so salty. it's got garlic & raisins like the local dish espinacas catalanas -- catalan spinach.
tips from locals are always appreciated, but pizzas probably the last thing i would eat in sf--you have glorious mexican food (unlike here,) great cheap chinese food (taiwanese didn't mean anything cuisine-wise till i came here--the "chinese" places here are NASTY--but taiwanese isn't cheap) and ditto for thai (thai food is rare and EXPENSIVE here!)
many of our friends here are vegetarian and you'd think we were, too--till we eat beef (only a few times a month.)
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