Shazam! (2019)
Directed by David F. Sandberg
Written by Henry Gayden & Darren Lemke
Starring, in this scene: Shazam (Zachary Levi), Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer)
Chef’s Note: Beer is very much an acquired taste, even a learned taste, as this scene shows.
I remember my first time tasting beer. “That tastes like actual vomit” might have actually been my exact words. Mind you, this was after I had experienced both whiskey and gin and, indeed, cigarettes – and enjoyed them all.
Beer, though, was particularly disgusting and gag-inducing to my younger self.
Nowadays, I drink many kinds of beer and I cannot even slightly imagine it tasting disgusting &/or vomit inducing anymore. The thought of the flavor of beer literally makes my taste buds start to salivate.
How tastes can change over time!
Chef’s Note: Skittles! I will admit that, beyond the commercial version, I have always thought of the term as being one for general bar food – peanuts and popcorn and tapas, etc…
But no:
And yet the phrase “beer and skittles” lurks through our language like a clichéd specter. For whatever reason, even though the Passing English of the Victorian era defines the pair as “a synonym for pleasure,” we usually hear it in the negative: life isn’t all “beer and skittles,” people say, a sentiment so obvious that few would question it and wonder why it was “beer and skittles” and not, say, “hookers and blow” or “skydiving and eating raw cookie dough.” Life just isn’t easily limited to any two things, why pair these two, and for that matter what is being paired?
