Not a Rant

I hate to do this, because I swore I was done with it, but if you'll allow me one small minute to point out an...observation. This is not a rant, but a mere suggestion to any restaurateurs out there. I took my wife out for dinner the other night for our anniversary to what I might consider to be one of the nicer restaurants in Wichita. Upon receiving our menus, I began perusing the drink selections. Two whole pages devoted to wine by the bottle and by the glass were sectioned off into red and white, and further partitioned into nice neat categories of Merlot, Cabernet, Pinot Grigio, etc. Then, in the bottom right hand corner, a space reserved for the apparent "step child" of imbibments, was the beer.

Surprised? No, I wasn't. I expected it. So I was able to move on at that point. What amused me was the two categories of beer listed, Imported and Domestic. Looking down the domestic list, I saw the typical macros, Bud, Coors, Miller. What was laughable were the beers listed as Imported. Fat Tire? Since when have we imported Fat Tire all the way from Colorado? How about Samuel Adams from Boston (a quick aside: that's how they had listed it, "Samuel Adams," as if they didn't have a million beers to choose from), is that "imported"? And Shiner Bock? I'm pretty sure Texas is part of the Union now. Where did they come up with this list?

Apparently I'm hard to please when it come to my beverage of choice. Don't get me wrong, I'm not discounting wine. I do love wine very much. However, once, just once, I would love to open a menu and have two full pages devoted to beer by the bottle and by the (proper) glass that were sectioned off into ales and lagers, and further partitioned into nice neat categories of Pale, Hefeweizen, Porter, etc. Then I would love to hear my waiter say, "India Pale Ale? That will go great with your chicken curry, excellent choice, sir." If anyone knows of such a place, please let me know. Until then, I'll just have to stick to drinking the "imported" stuff. Because everyone knows that if it's not fizzy and yellow, it must not come from here.