You Are What You Eat (and Drink)

• Russian cities have well-priced beer and unattractive people; thus do fertility rates fall.
• Rio has well-priced beer and very attractive people; thus do fertility rates explode.
• Toronto has great carbohydrates (doughnuts) and expensive beer; Washington has cheap beer and crummy carbs (pretzels). Free trade?
• Four of the 5 least babely and hunky cities were in Fast Food Nation, the U.S.
• Paris and Rio finished in the top 5 for babes and carbs – and these are the world’s Atkins-free zones.

Where the Beers Are

• The best place to drink in public: Washington, D.C. The worst: Montreal.
• Moscow is a great drinkers’ city, as are many capitals. Politicians must appreciate cheap beer.
• Four of the worst Soft Drink/Beer Ratio scores are from Anglo-Saxon cities of commerce: London, Toronto, Vancouver and Chicago.
• Three of our worst places to find cheap beer and freely imbibe it in public are in Canada, eh.
• Our soft drink/beer battlefield upheld some cities’ traditional rivalries: Washington trumped Moscow; Rio beat Buenos Aires; Paris outshone London; and Toronto edged out Montreal.