Kims

So Inbev has managed to buy Anheuser-Busch after all.

Besides those stockholders who are making big bucks, it seems nobody is happy with this deal. Belgians are concernced our high quality beer will degrade to the watery disgrace of a beer that is Bud, while Americans simply hate the idea of foreigners taking over. They even used Cuba as an excuse, while having a 27 percent stake in the Chinese Tsingtao. If you’re going to protest because of some cold war notion, at least be consistent in your claims.

I am neither concerned that Belgian beers will lose their character and full flavor, we won’t stand for that, nor am I worried about the impact this takeover will have on the market or any political implications. What upsets me is that Bud will be listed next to Stella as the new company’s top beer. Seriously. What blasphemy!

With my fiancé (known hereafter as The Ferret) scheduled to move across continents tomorrow, what better time than now to look at Belgium’s most prized yet least acknowledged export product: the fry. In America known as French Fries, in the UK called Chips, in French referred to as Frites, and in Dutch simply named Frietjes, Belgianfries.com sets the record straight about its origin, dedicating every single page to the art of making and eating true Belgian fries.

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.“

Oscar Wilde