Comments on: 10 American Icons Not Owned by America Anymore

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:47:15 +0000

@ gt, Like making love in a rowboat..

By: gt

gt — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:29:58 +0000

ok, some issues to resolve here - I may be wrong but:
Molson is really co-owned by Coors, you really are referring to Labatt who is owned by the same company as the bottle above (Inbev, the largest beer co. in the world)
and
Budweiser was stolen (label colors and style, recipe, name, the works) from one of the oldest Czech beer co.'s, Budvar, which is from the town of Ceske Budejovice... that theft has been disputed for eons, with the American company keeping the Czechs at bay with legalese/money... will probably never get resolved.
Both Molson and labatt make p*ss for beer, buy from a local small brewer and avoid the corporate crap beers
No. 1 beer in Canda-duh? Coors Light, the least beer tasting beer I've ever had
g

By: Polx

Polx — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:01:37 +0000

Can't get more English than Rolls Royce now can you?

GERMAN.

Anyway it seems churlish to my eye for Americans to have a whinge about gloabal trade when all the trade rules they forced through, function as intended.

Breaking down trade barriers, homogenising the world, selling your granny to the knackers yard.

By: sirwebster

sirwebster — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:25:15 +0000

and what part of the name Anheuser-Busch was American to begin with? It was made what it is by two Germans.

By: Some Canadian Skeptic

Some Canadian Skeptic — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:12:47 +0000

Molson Canadian is also owned by a Belgian company. I'm not particularly fond of Canadian, but jezzus krist, talk about national irony!

To all my american friends who cry about American iconographs, I feel the need to remind you that American companies have been apropriating foreign cultural icons for decades...maybe you're finally starting to get the hint about what the rest of the world has being dealing with.

By: Paul in Boca

Paul in Boca — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:53:11 +0000

Wow, maybe this means Bud might actually taste good.....nah, too much to hope for.

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:10:16 +0000

The same in Australia as well - two of our biggest food icons are no longer owned by Australia. Arnott's buscuits were bought out by Campbell's soup, and Vegemite has been bought by Kraft.

Yankees have a lot to answer for.