Euroland...

[KrazyHorse]

Is weird. Everything's really expensive. Plus, none of the restaurants actually want you to eat there. They don't have menus, and when you come in they don't serve you for fifteen minutes, even after you call out to them. Instead, the owner sits in the back smoking with his preternaturally young wife who you mistakenly refer to as his daughter, causing much embarassment.

[DRoseDARs]

Well of course Euroland sucks: It employs lazy Eurotrash.

[Ecthy]

Where are you?

[KrazyHorse]

I am in total agreement.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Where are you?

Geneva. CERN, specifically.

[Cort Haus]

Don't extrapolate Euroland costs from Geneva - the most expensive place I've ever been.

Maybe a little hasty to judge all restaurants from that one, too.

[Main_Brain]

Its an Experience! It aint a fast foodfeeding industry but a take-your-time, almost zen-like Place. Get Food? May happen, may not happen. The Customer has no rights here, which prepares him for the outside world, where he hasnt either.

The Service, which many non-Continentals see as rude, is the first thing adopted of the French Cuisine by other Europeans.
Wheter the Quality of Food will also be adopted is under discussion, but dont get you hopes up. We first need an intereuropean Conference to set some standards before we proceed.

Fortunatly most Waiters are not struggeling Actors waiting for their Break-through, but People knowing they are stuck on this for life*. Talk about Motivation..

Exception Italy: Here the Waitresses are usually eastern european women w/o Visa.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Don't extrapolate Euroland costs from Geneva - the most expensive place I've ever been.

Maybe a little hasty to judge all restaurants from that one, too.

I believe you have missed the joke.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Main_Brain
Its an Experience! It aint a fast foodfeeding industry but a take-your-time, almost zen-like Place. Get Food? May happen, may not happen. The Customer has no rights here, which prepares him for the outside world, where he hasnt either.

The Service, which many non-Continentals see as rude, is the first thing adopted of the French Cuisine by other Europeans.
Wheter the Quality of Food will also be adopted is under discussion, but dont get you hopes up. We first need an intereuropean Conference to set some standards before we proceed.

Fortunatly most Waiters are not struggeling Actors waiting for their Break-through, but People knowing they are stuck on this for life*. Talk about Motivation..

Exception Italy: Here the Waitresses are usually eastern european women w/o Visa.

An expert analysis.

[Drogue]

Re: Euroland...

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Is weird. Everything's really expensive.

That's just Switzerland. Well, not just, London and Paris tend to be sillily expensive too, but most of Western Europe is pretty close to US type prices, and Eastern Europe much cheaper.

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Plus, none of the restaurants actually want you to eat there. They don't have menus, and when you come in they don't serve you for fifteen minutes, even after you call out to them.

So true. There are some restaurants that are much better, but service in Europe is much worse than the the US, plus it's still (apparently) harder to recruit people into it. However the lack of menu's thing is a bit weird, I've never found that in a restaurant.

[BeBMan]

Calling Switzerland Euroland

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


I believe you have missed the joke.

Someone from Canada (national dish: poutine on seal flippers, with a side of beaver in fish sauce) lecturing Eurocoms on food ?

That's a great slowburner.

KrazyHorse's irony:

Poutine: by its appearance, you'll think you've already eaten it.

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Someone from Canada (national dish: poutine on seal flippers, with a side of beaver in fish sauce) lecturing Eurocoms on food ?

That's a great slowburner.

KrazyHorse's irony:

Poutine: by its appearance, you'll think you've already eaten it.

So true

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


CERN, specifically.

Yes, particularly costly, due to defective parts delivered by the Fermilab.

[Japher]

I saw at "No Reservations" filmed in Quebec about Poutine