Tall, dark and have some

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Posted at 5:45PM, 16 March 2010 by Andrea McGinniss - Editor, bbcgoodfood.com

If I had a pint for every time someone spelt my surname 'as in the drink' I'd open my own brewery. Guinness has been both the bane, and one of the most brilliant, things in my life.

Bane because it's given me headaches, made me poorer, distracted me from more cerebral activities. I certainly haven't read as many books as I should have. And I'm sure I should have spent at least half of that time 'in the gym' or somewhere equally 'beneficial' (ie dull). But bejaysus it's been fun.

Tall, dark and mysterious, if it were a man I'd want to marry it

Ever since I could spell my name I have felt a connection to it. Tall, dark and mysterious, if it were a man I'd want to marry it. One pint in a divey Irish bar in Melbourne and I was hooked. Not to the actual drink, but to the nostalgia, romance and rebellion it represented.

A couple of years later and I was living in the West of Ireland. And the Guinness was good. I laughed, cried, put the world to rights, hooked up, broke up and broke glasses because of it. Fifteen years later, and I continue to do so, albeit at a far gentler pace.

True it doesn't travel well. True it's soupier and less lovingly poured in London. But when I need to take comfort from the crowds and the cranes, or have a crisis to talk out, going for a cocktail or coffee simply can't compete. It's just a shame they can't spell it correctly.

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Girl Flower

17 March 2010, 10:46AM
Girl Flower

I think anything with mashed potato (and preferably gravy) is comforting for me. Reminds me of being a child and of warm cosy nights in with no worries. It has to be smooth mash though, no lumps or then it's more like school dinners which is not comforting but scary!

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SMP

17 March 2010, 5:01PM
SMP

I'm afraid that due to Guinness's inclusion of dead fish in it's ingrediants, it's Beamish for me every time

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yummie

18 March 2010, 10:08AM
yummie

GUINNESS, what a wonderful,fantastic,beautiful and most of all delicious brew,yummy lol

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yummie

18 March 2010, 10:10AM
yummie

GUINNESS, what a wonderful,fantastic,beautiful and most of all delicious brew,yummy lol

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Cassandra Amy Rose

18 March 2010, 5:28PM
Cassandra Amy Rose

Any thing chocolate!!

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miniminx

19 March 2010, 10:40AM
miniminx

guinness has fish in it?! i guess so does wine....filtering? am going to have to google that now!

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Photocake

26 March 2010, 8:43PM
Photocake

Guinness cupcakes from www.photocake-occasion.co.uk will be out soon"!

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