As you can imagine, most of Y&H’s readers are based right here in the God-fearing, gun-loving United States of America. But as I’ve been messing around with Google Analytics, I’ve discovered a number of posts from 2009 that played well in foreign countries, sort of like old blues musicians in Europe, I guess.

Below you’ll find the five most-popular Y&H posts outside the U.S. — and the country in which the item found an audience. You know what? Some cliches are true: Canadians dig beer.

The list after the jump.

  1. Vintage TV Beer Commercials — Croatia, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom (combined, these countries totalled thousands of page views)
  2. Budweiser Launches Select 55, Light Beer Arms Race Gets Absurd — Canada
  3. Flying Dog Receives Brewery of the Year: Catch Them Thursday at the Mayflower — Canada
  4. Spike Mendelsohn Evicted from His Capitol Hill Rental House — Colombia (No doubt most of those clicks came from Mendelsohn’s former landlords who are based in the country.)
  5. Ritz Pastry Chef Jérôme Girardot Found Dead in Cameron Station Park — France