This week’s question: Inflation has pushed the price of a pint of Guinness in Ireland above 6 euros ($7.08) for the first time, a hike one lawmaker called “absolutely wild.” If an Irish folk singer were to write a ballad lamenting the increasing unaffordability of a night out at the pub, what would the song be titled?
RESULTS:
THE WINNER: “Erin Go Broke”
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John Keefe, Mount Vernon, Wash.
SECOND PLACE: “O Danny Boy, the Price of Stout’s Appalling”
Carol Broderick, Bellevue, Neb.
THIRD PLACE: “Molly, a Loan?”
Rob Huffman, Fredericksburg, Va.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Finnegan’s Take”
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Mass.
“Tapped Out in the Tap Room”
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, Calif.
“Keg o’ My Heart, No More”
Diane Ross, Hatfield, Pa.
“House of the Rising Sum”
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Fla.
“‘Tis Beyond a Reasonable Stout”
Mike Cunningham, Greendale, Wis.
“Nothing Compares 2 Brew”
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh
“An Arm, a Leg, and a Half-Empty Keg”
John Parry, Eldersburg, Md.
“Prices are Dublin”
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Va.
“Gotta Downscale When I Down Ale”
Rick Torrence, The Village, Okla.
“The Saddest Guinness Record of All”
Richard Houghton, Anacortes, Wash.
“I Can’t Afford to Cry in My Beer”
Alan Rosenspan, Sharon, Mass.
“When Irish Mouths are Drying”
Phil Plumley, Canal Fulton, Ohio
“My Wild Inflation Woes”
Lavinia Ycas, Boulder, Colo.