The 4 B’s: Ireland and Australia

by Mark on May 4, 2010

So I recently thought about all the countires in the world and their realitive value in society, the four criteria I used to base my judgement were Beer, Beef, Butter, and Bread.

Ireland:

Beer – 10 Guinness, Beamish, Murphy’s, Harp, Kilkenny, Smithwicks

Beef – 6 No special beefs, but Shepherds Pie is awesome and Guinness Beef Stew is great too

Butter – 10 Irish Butter is the best in the world

Bread – 3 Even though potato bread is good, I have never had any amazing Irish bread

Total Score – 29/40

Australia:

Beer – 8 Victoria Bitter, Emu, XXXX, Coopers, Cascade, Tooheys

Beef – 8 With thousands of square miles dedicated to cattle ranches Australia has some of the best beef I have ever had

Butter – 7 Even though there is no special form of Australian butter they do use it on EVERYTHING……Love it!

Bread – 4 There is plenty of land to grow wheat, but sadly there aren’t any really good or original bread products.

Total Score – 27/40

Well there are the first two countires that come to mind…..check back for later installments where I will evaluate about 20 more countries.

-Mark

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Beer, Beef, Butter, and Bread

by Mark on May 3, 2010

These are the things that keep me up at night………depending on which I have had more of that day. I will let you decide which one is keeping me up tonight.

Tonight I realized that these are the four major categories that I consider when I am thinking about a country and their relative value in out current society, and in that particular order.

Time for me to do some research and make sure I my thinking is not wrong or misguided (that could never happen to me but I like to double check).

-Mark

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