Re: Beating the Dutch

Jan wrote:
>  --- John Cowan wrote:
[snip English idioms designating something or other as "Dutch"]
>
>But at least, nothing that points into the direction of our supposed greed.
>
>I always thought, that the expression "to go Dutch" means, that a
>restaurant
>bill is split up equally between the participants.
Is that supposed to be greedy? When I've run across that custom, it's always
been taken as an invitation to eat and drink as much expensive stuff as
possible, since if you order the most the rest will in effect pay for some
of your food and drink (this is known as 'alcohologic').

                                            Andreas

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