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.
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!?!”
Good, keep it up. Put the pain on us in the US. We need to learn our lesson.
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 CanadianI’m not much of a JD fan in general, it’s an OK whiskey but it doesn’t do anything that plenty of other whiskeys don’t do better.
I had a personal boycott of JD going for a few years, my wife and I are both whiskey drinkers and we visited TN for the 2017 eclipse. We decided while we were there we might as well make a detour to the distillery. I’m sure with the eclipse it was probably one of the busiest tourism weeks they’ve had there, so we weren’t surprised to find a long line waiting for us. We made the most of it, it took us about 45 minutes to get to the front of the line, it snaked through a little mini museum, and it gave us some time to decide which tour we wanted to do.
But when we got to the front of the line we were informed that all of the tours we were interested in were sold out, and the only one available was the one that didn’t allow you to try any whiskey at the end.
At no point during the 45 minutes we were standing around did they make any sort of announcement or put a sign up or anything to let us know that the other tours were sold out, if they had we probably would have decided to just go on that tour, but that really pissed us off, so we left.
I decided that I wouldn’t give Jack any of my money after that, not that I was buying a whole lot of it anyway.
A year or two ago they ran an ad campaign with some drag queens. I decided that my personal boycott had gone on long enough and I could reward that little bit of token wokeness, although I have to admit that I still haven’t bought any JD since then.
And like too many other companies it looks like they’ve now rolled back their DEI initiatives, so fuck 'em, back on the boycott list they go.
Now as a whisky drinker in the US, I’m disappointed that there’s going to be tariffs affecting Canadian whisky, I’m a little torn as to whether I should support my favorite Canadian brands or avoid them since the tariffs are going to be funneling money to the trump administration.
I’m certainly going to be cutting back on my American whiskeys and many other American products in protest. I encourage my fellow whiskey drinkers to the north to do the same, you guys make some fine rye, I’ll gladly take some Alberta Premium over almost anything made in the States.
I suspect I’m going to find myself drinking a lot of Scotch, Irish, and Japanese whisk(e)ys for the next few years, but I look forward to the day when I can hopefully enjoy some Canadian rye again without Trump’s tariffs.
I’m a little torn as to whether I should support my favorite Canadian brands or avoid them since the tariffs are going to be funneling money to the trump administration.
Come drink it at my house then.
That way you’re not crossing the border with any bottles, just your stomach contents which isn’t subject to import tariffs.
Unless you somehow get the whole bottle in there which would become smuggling.Careful, when the couple bottles I already have kicking around run out I might try to take you up on that offer.
Assuming you’re Canadian, I’ve had the pleasure of visiting a few different parts of your country a handful of times, and each one was of the most memorable trips of my life, so I’m always happy for an excuse to return.
Depending on where you are, it may not even be the longest drive I’ve taken to get some whiskey (current record is about 12 hours)
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”.
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.
They should do it immediately. What the fuck are they even doing?
AFAIK Canada can do it quickly because most liquor stores are government owned and run (LCBO in Ontario for example), whereas in Mexico it’s individual retailers. And many of the retailers in Mexico are American chains: Wal*Mart, Costco, etc. If Soriana and Chedraui wanted they could stop selling American booze, but they’re for-profit companies that are probably thinking they’ll just let their customers choose if they want to boycott.
