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Date:
January, 2006
Here
is my ever-changing, ever-incomplete and ever-subjective list of
the best and worst the world has to offer.
BEST
COUNTRIES
South Africa
Ireland
Greece
USA
Mexico
Thailand
New Zealand
Kenya
Lesotho
Argentina
India
WORST
COUNTRIES
India
(India wins the award for most paradoxical country and so gets the
best and worst awards in the same categories.)
Zimbabwe
Egypt
North Vietnam
El Salvador
CITIES
San Francisco
Cape Town
Istanbul
Buenos Aires
London
Bangkok
Melbourne
Hanoi
BEST FOOD
Braais (South African barbecues)
Asados (Argentinian barbecues)
American food (of course)
Saltenas (Bolivian Cornish pasties)
Falafel sandwich (Egypt)
Thai food
India
Rice and beans and Mexican food in general
WORST
FOOD
And
the award goes to Zimbabwe because there was no food.
Beef soup (East Africa. Cow hacked up with machete, boiled in water.
With a cup of salt.)
Mealy Maize (East Africa)
Beans on toast (England)
Rice and beans (Nepal)
(Due to an economic crisis there was hardly any food.)
India (can be very dirty with few ingredients and lots of flies)
Ecuador salmonella sandwich
Intestine and tripe soup (Tanzania)
Chicken fetus (Vietnam)
Fried cockroaches and grasshoppers (Thailand)
Flies (Australia)
ARCHITECTURE
The Milennium Wheel and the Parliment Building (London)
The Great Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
Machu Picchu (Peru)
The cathedrals of Europe
New York CityGolden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
NATURAL WONDERS
Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA)
Yosemite National Park (California, USA)
Redwood Forests (California, USA)
Sedona (Arizona, USA)
Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA)
Table Mountain (South Africa)
Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia)
Victoria Falls (Zimbabawe)
Sani Pass (Lesotho)
Franz Josef Glacier (New Zealand)
Uluru (Ayers Rock, Australia)
The cacti forests of Baja California (Mexico)
The fynbos plant kingdom (South Africa)
Mount Everest (Nepal, Tibet)
And because you keep asking... BEAUTIFUL
WOMEN
Mexico
USA (nothing like home grown)
Argentina
Czech Republic (also wins the award for most ugly men)
Thailand
Vietnam
South Africa
France
Holland
Italy
Scandinavia
And
to be fair... BEAUTIFUL MEN
USA
(of course)
Kenya
Italy
Australia
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