[TR] Lucas

[Dave1massey at cs.com]

In a message dated 8/16/2007 8:59:33 AM Central Daylight Time, 
Brian.L.Jones at gsk.com writes: 
> The American joke about Lucas making refrigerators being the reason why us 
> Brits drink warm beer (actually it's cellar temperature, around 55 Degs 
> Fahrenheit), always makes me smile. It reminds me that, unlike American 
> beer, British Ale needn't be chilled to the point of freezing in order to 
> hold it in your mouth long enough to swallow it.
> 
Spot on.

Or, as Satch Carlson, who used to write for Autoweek, said (and I paraphrase 
since it was many years ago) "It is not true that the British drink warm beer. 
 The Brits drink beer at room temperature.  And since the whole country is 
heated with Lucas furnaces they drink COLD beer.

Dave