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ripe 5 hours ago [-]
Great read about a niche topic!
I know almost nothing about Vietnam, but this article felt like I had visited.
hodder 4 hours ago [-]
Getting cranked on Bia Hoi in Hanoi with some locals is just an incredible cultural experience.
christkv 2 hours ago [-]
Talking about weird cultural things. Pretty much every Spanish household has at least some of their drinking glasses made up of the glasses used by Nocilla (Spanish chocolate spread brand). https://dechocolate.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nocilla.j...
maplant 3 hours ago [-]
These glasses look absolutely stunning
lostlogin 2 hours ago [-]
I was sure that these were similar to the famous Luminarc and the French connection seemed relevant. But having trawled their site… they aren’t.
Hmm, does everyone in Vietnam have a drinking problem?
bluecatinthesun 6 minutes ago [-]
I'd say somewhat. It is also tied to masculinity in a way, so it is a bigger problem for men.
0x457 2 hours ago [-]
When I "lived" in Vietnam, they had more bars than coffeshop in the US, but they also had double amount of coffee shops. In Saigon I was never not in a short walking distance from a bar.
sampullman 2 hours ago [-]
bia hơi is pretty light
readthenotes1 1 hours ago [-]
"But in some corners of Hanoi, government officials still have exclusive access to special shops selling goods at subsidized rates. "
Surely in a communist government access would be equal to all? Why would there be elites?
Muromec 14 minutes ago [-]
Believe it or not, but there were different quality grades of commieblocks. You can guess who got the ones from the first, more quality batch.
Mainan_Tagonist 1 hours ago [-]
it's because it's not real communism.
dctoedt 40 minutes ago [-]
FTA: the defeat of American troops and fall of Saigon in 1975
This is a bit misleading: Yes, strategically the U.S. was defeated in 1975, but U.S. troops had pulled out in 1973, having essentially never been beaten on the battlefield — not that it matters, of course.
Muromec 13 minutes ago [-]
A gesture of good will as they say. They never wanted to get to redacted in three days anyway.
neves 10 minutes ago [-]
Have you ever seen the videos of American fleeing Saigon?
dctoedt 6 minutes ago [-]
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Spooky23 11 minutes ago [-]
That’s really splitting hairs. The Republic of Vietnam was a dead man walking, but it was a United States puppet state, and they finally collapsed in 1975.
The cope stuff of “never beaten in the battlefield” is just bullshit. The point of fighting a war is to win. The military bureaucrats tried to apply kill counts as a proxy for victory.
The army pulled out but everything didn’t just end. There was a variety of covert and semi-covert American presence remaining, both in terms of CIA people and “sheep dipped” contractors.
ErroneousBosh 31 minutes ago [-]
> brewed it fresh daily
This is not how beer works.
ThePowerOfFuet 1 hours ago [-]
I found this really interesting. Thanks for submitting it!
I know almost nothing about Vietnam, but this article felt like I had visited.
https://www.luminarc.com/collections/glassware/
Not quite the same but a lot closer.
There was a good thread about the brand here a while back, which your comment helped me find.
https://www.duralex.com/en https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46015379
Surely in a communist government access would be equal to all? Why would there be elites?
This is a bit misleading: Yes, strategically the U.S. was defeated in 1975, but U.S. troops had pulled out in 1973, having essentially never been beaten on the battlefield — not that it matters, of course.
The cope stuff of “never beaten in the battlefield” is just bullshit. The point of fighting a war is to win. The military bureaucrats tried to apply kill counts as a proxy for victory.
The army pulled out but everything didn’t just end. There was a variety of covert and semi-covert American presence remaining, both in terms of CIA people and “sheep dipped” contractors.
This is not how beer works.