> If you had bought $1000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock)one year ago, drank all the beer, and traded in the cans for the nickel deposit, you would have $79
Sadly, you would have not have done so well with the Budweiser in the UK because I am not aware that it is possible to get any money back with the cans.
We used to get money back when we returned bottles of "pop" (see previous discussion for terminology of pop/soda/assorted fizzy drinks) but I can't recall being given money back on cans of beer - we can take them for recycling but no cash changes hands.
Incidently, I have always pronounced it Budveiser which caused astonishement to a young waiter in the USA - am I alone in this (maybe I am)? I also baffled him when asking if I wanted "Swiss cheese" by asking precisely which kind of Swiss cheese he was referring to (Emmental, Gruyere, Raclette ... list continued at [url]http://www.switzerland-cheese.com/index_1.htm/url].
