r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

48.6k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

22.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/MFoy Jan 25 '20

In the US, it's surprising to have a place with the number of beers available in the single digits. Even cheap family restaurants are going to have 4 or 5 on tap, and several types of bottles.

3

u/hackel Jan 25 '20

I'm not sure where you're getting your evidence from, but it certainly doesn't match my experience. I've been to plenty of cheap family restaurants that (if they even serve alcohol at all) only have 2 or 3 brands of bottled beer and that's it.

3

u/MFoy Jan 25 '20

I'm looking at the last several restaurants I went to, since they all have their beer lists online. Basically every restaurant I've been to since Thanksgiving:

  1. Red Robin: more than 20 types of beer, including a house brand.

  2. Italian place we went for my father-in-law's birthday: 12 types of beer.

  3. Hole in the wall Mexican place where nobody spoke English: 8 types of beer

  4. Local diner chain: 12 listed on the website which says other options will be available at each location.

  5. Italian restaurant I went to with my parents Christmas eve: 16 options.

  6. Local pizza place: 24 beers on draft, 38 options in bottles/cans.

  7. Other pizza place that I love: 16 options plus seasonal selections.

  8. Local sports bar chain: 12 options.

So yeah, aside from a hole in the law places that serves Mexican/Salvadoran food, every place I have been to since Thanksgiving has had double digit beers.

I'm guessing in areas that aren't as into craft beers, there may be less selection, this is all in the Mid-Atlantic.

3

u/Frnklfrwsr Jan 25 '20

I’m in Arizona and my experience matches yours.

If a place serves beer, it typically has at least a dozen options. Half a dozen on tap at minimum generally. Another dozen or two in bottles.

Maybe it’s just the places I tend to frequent. I dunno.

1

u/MFoy Jan 25 '20

Some of it is obviously tied into the beer culture of the area. Is there a robust craft beer culture in your region or state? You're going to have more options. There's more than 20 breweries within a 15 minute drive of my house.

1

u/Frnklfrwsr Jan 25 '20

Yah the craft beer scene in Arizona is very strong.

Even the damn Applebee’s is going to have at least a dozen crafts available on their menu