Originally Posted by tum

And this is someone working in the UK?? Pretty narrow minded of him as you'd expect he's been 'around' and 'knows' other ways and countries.
Oh well, just tell him 'wat de boer niet kent dat eet hij niet' meaning something like, if you don't know what it is first hand you just decide you don't like it'.

Cheers,

Miranda (who's Dutch has been to Australia 3 times and hasn't been victimised in any way ).

Originally Posted by Cam1977

Actually Miranda, he's never been outside the Netherlands - hard to believe I know. When a group of six people in his department were sent on a project to China for two weeks, he was the only one who said he wouldn't go!