I know this isnt technically relevant to the blog remit but given that we post so much from the NYT i thought i would put this up and it does have economics content. I am most curious though about what a "baked-potato pushcart" is. Apparently, Ireland used to be the land of them!
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/travel/22hours.html?th&emc=th
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never mind baked "potato pushcart", what the hell is a "trouser press"?
I get the feeling that the author may have taken a guided tour of the city and misguided into believing that Molly Malone sold gastronome baked-potatoes from her cart. I get the feeling that those tour guides probably make stuff up all the time to keep themselves entertained.
Many years ago my brother used to give guided tours of Cork to visiting language students,telling them that Cork had more miles of canal than Venice,largely on the basis that there is really nothing interesting about Cork so you have to make stuff up.
colm told me one about a tour guide who responded to one of the clients pointing and asking about the statue of Grattan in Stephen's Green with "oh that - that's Stephen Green himself".
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