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Titanic Awards book spotted in the wild (just released)

Doug Lansky — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:57:43 +0000

Worst setback for Italian cuisine: McItaly

Doug Lansky — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:40:15 +0000

Just Italy needs: a pseudo-food American version of Italian cuisine. Now Americans can go to Italy and get what they’ve so badly been missing.

Worst-Smelling Food

Doug Lansky — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:16:48 +0000

Hákarl, the Icelandic specialty.

Worst-Smelling Food

Doug Lansky — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:00:42 +0000

Swedish surströmming

Which Country Has the Most Overrated Cuisine?

Doug Lansky — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:46:18 +0000

photo by richardmasoner via flickr

titanic awards survey current standings
World’s Most Overrated Cuisine
1st	France	49.1% of votes
2nd	Italy	9.0% of votes
3rd 4th 5th 6th	United States China Britain Japan	5.1% of votes 4.0% of votes 3.0% of votes 2.6% of votes

FYI: Nearly 40% the the French who took the survey agreed that they had the most overrated cuisine.

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Which Country Has the World’s Worst Cuisine?

Doug Lansky — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:03:34 +0000

photo by ctoverdrive via flickr

titanic awards survey current standings
World’s Worst National Cuisine
1st	Britain	25.1% of votes
2nd	United States	10.3% of votes
3rd 4th 5th 5th 6th	China Russia Germany Australia Ireland	3.5% of votes 3.2% of votes 2.6% of votes 2.3% of votes 2.0% of votes

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Which Country Makes the World’s Worst Beer?

Doug Lansky — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:51:33 +0000

photo by tojosan via flickr

titanic awards survey current standings
Makes the World’s Worst Beer
1st	United States	23% of votes
2nd	China	5.2% of votes
3rd 4th 5th 6th	Britain Australia France Italy	4.1% of votes 3.7% of votes 3.4% of votes 3.3% of votes

FYI: So far Budweiser has had the most nominations for #1 world’s worst beer.
Good to be #1 at something.

Over 2000 people from more than 80 countries have taken the survey so far.
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Worst Travel Agent Request

Doug Lansky — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:04:38 +0000

photo via flickr: Erick Muñiz and Texas to Mexico composite

Travel agent Steven Greenbaum of Pisa Brothers Travel in New York was asked to book a trip with a pet Chihuahua. The traveler wanted to take the dog to Chihuahua, Mexico. Why? To help the pet discover his roots.

Source: Travel + Leisure

Worst Dressed Tourists

Doug Lansky — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:14:07 +0000

titanic awards survey current standings
World’s Worst Dressed Tourists
1st	Americans	47.2% of votes
2nd	Germans	13.9% of votes
3rd	British	9.5% of votes

Over 1000 people from more than 70 countries have taken the survey so far.
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Worst Restaurant Theme

Doug Lansky — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:35:32 +0000

Presumably their bathroom has a restaurant theme.