50 Beers Around the World #40- Guinness (Ireland)

Today's beer is one of the most popular exports here in les etats unis. Guinness Beer is also still the king of beers (oops, that is Budweiser's trademark, oh well!) in Ireland.

Guinness Beer was started by Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) in Dublin, accoding to Wikipedia. The info site also states that studies have shown that drinking Guinness is good for the heart. You may want to check with my fellow Turkish-American Dr. Oz before you head to the beer section of the Food Lion in Mount Airy, NC.

I must profess that if I had to share a beer with someone besides Uma Thurman, who would assuredly shun me as all gorgeous women seemingly do (nudge, nudge, wink, wink!), it would have to be Chevy Chase. As we stated in our last entry about the Turkish yogurt drink ayran, Chase once starred in a Turkish tv ad for Cola Turka, which people all over the globe can now see on Youtube, well with the exception of Pyongyang, North Korea, and Qom, Iran, perhaps.

Things Not to Say on Twitter.....

My mother recently got back from a vacation trip to Dublin, Ireland, and she brought back a copy of the Irish newspaper "Irish Independent" with her which had this interesting, yet disturbing story from that side of the pond.

The controversial British food critic/journalist Giles Coren (pictured here), 40, who once wrote a column defending the use of profanity in the English journal "The Spectator" posted what was actually a joking entry on Twitter about how he was going to get even with a 12-year-old kid living next door to him who got a drum set for Christmas, and was bothering him with the noise.

The tweet, posted on Jan. 14, said regarding the kid and his drum set: "For f***s sake. Do I kill him then burn it?"

According to the Irish Independent, Coren followed that with a tweet which said: "Child for sale. Partially chared. Has his own drum kit."

After getting considerable flack for these posts in the UK, Coren said: "Can I just say that I didn't kill the kid or (we won't go there, here!). Anyway, he's not real. And, I live in Vienna."

Coren apparently added the whole thing was much fuss about nothing. But, if I can make an editorial comment here, I'm glad Coren doesn't have kids.

I'm not sure I would make Father of the Year either since I would probably let my four-year-old boy (I don't have kids, thankfully!) watch "The Godfather" so he could absorb Gordon Willis' brilliant cinematography.

Incidentally, "The Godfather" airs at 4 p.m. on AMC on Valentine's Day. It will probably be the censored version, so you and your kids can watch it together!:)