Tim

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:02:02 +0100, The Reid wrote:

    > Following up to congokid
    >> Then I'd ask how many coffees were required, and bring those. Then take
    >> their food order.
    > That seems really strange to me, from a UK perspective.

Me too, coffee before a meal ? No thanks. But I suppose american coffee
doesn't actually have much coffee in it does it ? Tim.

Eric

Padraig Breathnach wrote in message news:...
    > [email protected] (Eric) wrote:
    >
    > >Wow! One day and already 20 replies! I like traveling but I hate
    > >being a clueless tourist and all this info helps greatly.
    > >
    > Some of them even relevant! But ask yourself: can you take the word of
    > strangers?
    >
    > PB

Isn't everything on the Internet true?

I hate to post and run but I need to forward some of my emails to 20
friends, otherwise my hair will fall out...

    :-D

Mike Ellwood

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Padraig Breathnach wrote:

    > [email protected] (Eric) wrote:
    > >Wow! One day and already 20 replies! I like traveling but I hate
    > >being a clueless tourist and all this info helps greatly.
    > >
    > Some of them even relevant! But ask yourself: can you take the word of
    > strangers?

Particularly strangers who seem to have nothing to do but answer
Usenet queries.
    

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Nhampton

s.
    > >
    > > It has happened to me in Rome and I felt hard done by, especially as I
    > > did not greatly like the bread. I prefer the French approach, and
    > > their bread.
    >
    > I've never had that happen to me in Italy (although I rarely go further
    > south than Génova), France, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia or Croatia.
    > Maybe it's just the sleazy places you hang out in ? ;-)
    > Tim.

NOPE the Italians charge by the basket of bread, everywhere I went and
they will refill it before it is empty and charge you again if you
aren't vigilent.

Congokid

In article , Tim
writes
    >On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:02:02 +0100, The Reid walker.co.uk> wrote:

    >>> Then I'd ask how many coffees were required, and bring those. Then
    >>>take their food order.
    >> That seems really strange to me, from a UK perspective.
    >Me too, coffee before a meal ? No thanks. But I suppose american coffee
    >doesn't actually have much coffee in it does it ? Tim.

It was mornings (6am until 1pm, although trade usually tailed off just
around noon), so coffee first thing was very popular for people coming
to dine.

Not that it was great coffee - filter rather than cappuccino, but at
least it was freshly made as almost everyone had a cup of it and it
didn't sit stewing in the jug for long.

It was also 1980, long before we knew much about coffee in the UK.

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Congokid

In article , Darkginger
writes

    >To diverge a little bit, but still on the subject of ice (and indeed
    >Ireland), I've noticed there's an increasing tendency, here in Ireland, to
    >add ice to all drinks automatically.

To diverge a bit more, one summer at a village pub in County Antrim a
tourist asked for ice in his wife's gin and tonic. The barman, an
ancient local, thought a while and replied: "We haven't seen ice in
Lisnagunogue since February."

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The Reid

Following up to congokid

    >It was also 1980, long before we knew much about coffee in the UK.

I see that tea stil accounts for over 50% of all drinks but is almost
absent from restaurants. There is talk of a tea chain starting up
Char-bucks?
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