As an aside, it's interesting how "Jack Daniel's" is the brand name, with the apostrophe-s ending. It makes it a bit difficult to construct sentences talking about it. If you write "the maker of Jack Daniel's is Brown-Foreman" it makes it seem like you misused an apostrophe or forgot a noun, like it should be "the maker of Jack Daniel's whiskey is Brown-Foreman", but that's also wrong because it's not the whiskey belonging to Jack Daniel, who's dead.
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I enjoy seeing the seditionist red states being hit by this. I have no empathy for these people other than blue voters in these states.
I guess the leopards are drinking their faces now.
"Piiiiinooooooooooooot Noiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrr"
You brought thus upon yourself, Kentucky.
It's from Tennessee, thank you very much. Bourbon isn't a regionally classified spirit, but Tennessee Whisky is!
Love my state; hate my statewide politicians. SMH
There are some US products that are gonna be difficult to replace. This is not one of them 😂
The way country music romanticizes (read: shills) Jack Daniels you'd think it's the greatest spirit ever distilled, rather than the disgusting swill it actually is.
Is Epic Meal Time still a thing? I remember them using Jack Dagniels for some syrup and other dishes.
They always had better branding than booze. I've always been partial to tulamoor dew. I wonder who makes that? I'll be back with an edit
Edit: it's scotch/Irish Wiki
Hay man, it's also glorified in hard rock as well as tv and film. It's Americana to the maxx!
Good, keep it up. Put the pain on us in the US. We need to learn our lesson.
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Jack Daniel's is a Tennessee company, which voted overwhelmingly for Trump (60+%) in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
"But why did they eat MY face!?!"
I checked their donations and while pleasantly surprised still don't really care. For Americans they're a fine option, for Canadians don't buy American
It doesn't matter if they're a good company or not. It causes them to put pressure on the government.
You know what's worse than pulling things off the shelves? Threatening the sovereignty of foreign nations and then making up bullshit tariffs to do so
Probably shouldn't have elected a stampeding bull for a president
A demented evil orange piece of shit? Like some sort or rapist nazi pedo asshole? That?
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We should do that in europe too!
As a (hopefully soon to be ex) American: do it! Pull all our whiskeys. Between the UK, Ireland, Canada, and Japan, you can replace just about anything we make.
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Dear Mr. Daniel,
I'm sorry that a store pulling things from their shelves is hurting your business, but I thought you should know that this is not even the tip of the iceberg.
Regardless of what any store does, I will simply not be buying Jack Daniel's, probably ever, along with a slew of other things, as many as I possibly can.
There are so many better whiskeys around the world that I certainly don't need to.
I empathize with the collateral damage this may cause, and hope that something, anything really, is eventually enough for y'all fuckers to start thinking about getting your shit together.
In the meantime, I will simply Buy Anything But American.
I am just one person, but I am not alone.
Sincerely,
Fix your shit or get fucked,
A random Canadian
I will simply not be buying Jack Daniel’s, probably ever, along with a slew of other things
American here. You aren't alone by any stretch. Once people and countries establish alternatives they very likely won't switch back. Farmers found out the hard way the first time but they aren't very smart so here we are. Also, tariffs are considered an act of war by many.
I can't even smell the stuff it's horrible.
And I drink Laphroaig neat.
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its going to end up like soybean tariffs with china, china found other sources of soybeans from asia, and south america, and largely ditched USA. im sure canada will do the same with alcohol.
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Go tell it to your dumb ass president.
Y'all are focusing too much on the single brand here. Yes, Brown Forman owns Jack Daniels, and yes, JD is not very good (and far worse than other American whiskeys in the same price range, whether we're talking the black label or their fancier offerings).
But Brown Forman also owns Woodford Reserve and Old Forester, which have good bourbons in their respective lineups. And, it should be noted, they also own the Scotch Whisky brands Glendronach, Benriach, and Glenglassaugh.
And what non-Canadians might not realize is that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario pretty much has a monopoly on spirits sold in Ontario, whose 15 million people account for about 40% of the Canadian population. If LCBO chooses not to purchase American spirits, that means it will basically be impossible to legally buy American spirits in Ontario, whether in a retail store, a bar, or a restaurant.
And as additional context, the American bourbon industry is facing down a bit of a contraction/recession/downturn in the coming years. Demand is softening up for most whiskeys, especially high end bourbons, compared to where they were a few years ago. Expect to see layoffs, fire sales, and bankruptcies.
I've been coming to the understanding that "bourbon" is like champagne in that it doesn't describe a type of alcohol so much as alcohol of that type produced in a specific region (though with the caveat that there might be factors about that region that also means boubon is a distinct type of alcohol due to those factors). If that's accurate, wouldn't it mean that "the American bourbon industry" is redundant like "the French champagne industry" would be? All Bourbon is American.
Jack Daniels has a nickname here and it's not positive xD
"Drain cleaner"
As an American I can confirm that crown royal and coke is superior than jack and coke.
Coke is American too. Unfortunately Royal Crown Cola is too (not only the original brand, but also the current megaconglomerate overlord).
But, it would be fun to replace the "Jack and Coke" with "Crown Royal and Royal Crown".
Stevie Ray Vaughan special
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Good. Lets stop drug passing the border.
Random Canadian dude says U.S. threatening Canada's sovereignty 'worse than pulling alcohol off shelves"
Random American here agreeing with Random Canadian brother or sister. I stand on guard for thee!
Who is wasting money on Jack Daniel’s anyway? Literally everything in the same price range is better
It’s $20 quality sold for $40
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Take it up with Trump, not Canada
Oh no. Anyways drink canadian. Or have a nice scotch. Really anything but American
Without doing any research, I'd be hard pressed to believe they didn't support trump all the way.
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I'm going to keep coming back with this until some-habs takes me up on it.
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I think what's wild is that Canada only makes 1% of Jack Daniel's sales while Mexico makes up 7% of their sales.
If Mexico pulls Jack off their shelves, it'll hit harder.
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Cool. You're a giant corporation with pockets deep enough to keep making meaningful statements. Keep it up.
(They won't)
Need more retaliation from countries. Everytime America complains there needs to be a resounding Nelson "Ha Ha".
What’s really sad is that Brown-Forman Corp (owner of Jack Daniels brand) donated to mostly Democratic state/local candidates, and no federal / national party candidates.
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Good, who said that only the pukeking baby diaper president is allowed to escalate things in a conflict?
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