Friday, June 01, 2007
beer from around the world
I was walking by the off licence at the end of Byers Rd
in the fabulous West End of Glasgow. An old man with a
long white beard beckoned me in. Dostoyevsky, I thought, and
I walked into the shop to shake his hand. But poof he disappeared,
as I entered the shop. The only thing that remained was a bottle of
Bajithka 3. Wow, Russian beer imported to Glasgow.
Yes, I can get beer from all round the world in Glasgow. Apart from
common places such as Germany and Poland, the picture shows a beer from
Argentina.
I once had a wicked plan to seduce someone by claiming to be able to
take them on a world tour. My cunning scheme was then to take them to
bar that sells beers from around the world. Then I could innocently say,
"what I actually said was that we were going to drink ourselves around
the world". I am not sure it would have worked, somehow I guess that
most women would think that that world tour means actually going to
the country. My theories that drinking a beer from a country allows
you to teleport there, wouldn't go down well on your average date.
What have I learnt from drinking beer from many different places
around the world? Well, beer makes you ill, fat and stupid, whatever
country it is brewed in.
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