Blog #2

   

Bacardi is a family owned spirits company, best known for rums like Bacardi Superior and Bacardi 151. The view in this ad is looking up from the ground surrounded by tall buildings that could be used as places of business. On the left hand side is a building with columns in front, like a court house. The bacardi is being poured out o cover up the images of the buildings. Inside the Bacardi is a women swimming in the ocean, it looks like a coral reef with bright colorful fish. The buildings are all the same color. The ocean is very bright and pleasing to the eye, and it spreads out onto the buildings. Where it touches the buildings the Bacardi transforms it into part of the reef. This ad could be saying that Bacardi will liven up the boring. If you drink Bacardi it will take you on your own personal vacation into a tropical paradise. The Bacardi is washing away the mundane of business life and replacing it with a relaxing, peaceful scene. Theres only one person in this scene, so that could mean that these peaceful effects are for you the drinker and no one else. The courthouse is there to represent the seriousness of the world, and the Bacardi is covering it all up to show that your day can be more fun if you drink Bacardi. The Bacardi is actually shooting up towards the sky, so its like the more you drink the higher you are elevated into a state of peace and happiness. The woman looks like she is headed for the surface, towards the sun. Its like, by drinking Bacardi, you are surfacing from the boring and the mundane, and continueing on as far as you can into the sky towards the sunlight.  
     
my comment:
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Blog #1

 Too many potatoes 

I think the most interesting dish I ever had was when I went to Ireland when I was sixteen. Potatoes are apparently a very important staple food in Ireland, which I wasn’t really aware of until I got there. The very first meal I ever ate in Ireland was at a pub in a town called Galway on the west coast of Ireland. That was the first time I had ever had an Irish beef stew. Beef stew in Ireland consists of a bowl of the thickest beef broth I’ve ever, with huge chunks’ of beef swimming in it. On top of that are mashed potatoes that completely cover the stew. Finally, there is a ring of beef sausages circling around the bowl on top of the mashed potatoes. I didn’t mind the large quantities of meat so much as what they served with the stew. On my plate next to the bowl were potatoes cooked every way possible. There were boiled potatoes, baked potatoes, and even another side helping of more mashed potatoes. Needless to say I wasn’t able to eat all of it, although I tried my best. The stew wasn’t much to look at, but as soon as started eating, I didn’t want to stop. After we left the pub, I regretted that I couldn’t finish the rest of it, I felt like I missed out by leaving any part of it uneaten. I almost went back in to see if I could get some in a to go box. I didn’t eat beef stew anywhere else while I was in Ireland, I didn’t want to jinx it by having too much of a good thing. If I’m ever in Ireland again I’ll have to remember to go back to that pub in Galway and see if the stew is still as delicious as I remember it.