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Floodweiser

Floodweiser
 n.— «During disasters, beer and soft drink makers sometimes divert their resources into producing drinking water for survivors. After the Northridge earthquake, one big brewery in LA did this; the same happens back east after floods and hurricanes. Jacob Appelbaum shot this snap of a can of “Floodweiser”—drinking water donated by an Anheuser-Busch brewery in Texas for Hurricane Katrina victims at the Houston Astrodome.» —“Katrina: Floodweiser” by Xeni Jardin in Texas Boing Boing Sept. 8, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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