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@tinosoft where's the guinness world records version
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Beta chefs can't cut it
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@Nudhul @Kerosene @tinosoft why
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@Kerosene @tinosoft yeah
"In 1900, there were fewer than 3,000 cars on the roads of France. To increase the demand for cars and, accordingly, car tyres, the car tyre manufacturers and brothers Édouard and André Michelin published a guide for French motorists, the Guide Michelin (Michelin Guide).[2] Nearly 35,000 copies of this first, free edition were distributed. It provided information to motorists such as maps, tyre repair and replacement instructions, car mechanics listings, hotels, and petrol stations throughout France."
Guinness is more interesting.
"On 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries,[3] went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. After missing a shot at a golden plover, he became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse (the plover is faster, but neither is the fastest game bird in Europe).[4] That evening at Castlebridge House, he realised that it was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird.[5][6] Beaver knew that there must have been numerous other questions debated nightly among the public, but there was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records.[7] He realised then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful.[8] Beaver's idea became reality when Guinness employee Christopher Chataway recommended university friends Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London.[9] The twin brothers were commissioned to compile what became The Guinness Book of (Superlatives and now) Records, in August 1954. A thousand copies were distributed for free to pubs across Britain and Ireland as a promotional asset for the Guinness brand, and they became immensely popular with customers.[7][10]"
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@eidolon @Kerosene @tinosoft chefs hate michelin
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@Kerosene @tinosoft yes, Michelin at least makes sense because they wanted to promote travelling to those restuarants (hence wear on tyres, hence new tyres needed, hence more tyres sold - or so im led to believe)
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@eidolon @tinosoft Wait what, is it really Guinness as in the alcohol company? I'm more confused now than when I found out about Michelin's cuisine ventures :akko_wtf2:
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