Re: CHAT: Dutch treats (was: It sucks!)

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
There's also a story about our first
>post-war premier, the very sober Drees. When the Americans were
>in the Netherlands just after the war to discuss the Marshall aid plan,
>Drees invited them home, where they were offered one cup of weak tea
>and a dry biscuit. According to some versions of this tale, this was
>enough to convince the Americans that the Netherlands were really
>abominably poor, and they increased the aid budget ;-)
Ha!  Serves us right.

>As for Four Roses, I consider that an inferior liquid, >
Good Lord, the original rot-gut. Another cheap-o brand, Imperial-- an old
friend of mine swilled it by the quart and called it affectionately
"Inferior".
 But the _Four Seasons_ is another matter-- a rather spectacular restaurant
located on the ground floor of (appropriately) the Seagram Building in NYC,
designed by Mies van der Rohe and an architectural gem, if you like
modernism.  In the early sixties, when it was new and exciting, it was The
Big-Expense-Account place to take visitors. I think it still is, though a
little frayed around the edges.