Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> > Anybody tell me a place were you DON'T expect free bread and water in
> > restaurants? You do in Sweden, and the Spanish restaurants I ate in last
> > summer all had it too ...
>
> Holland. It's just not customary to eat bread and drink water when you go to the
> restaurant, so if you want them you won't have them for free (well, in fact it
> depends on the restaurant, since most restaurants in Holland are restaurants of
> foeign food, maybe they adopt the customs of the foreign country they stand
> for).
Adding to that, South Korea, unless you're at a Western non-fast-food
restaurant, in which case they pile on the bread.  And for a country that
doesn't have any real *history* of bread--all I can say is, I miss Korean
bakeries.  (Your average Korean home never has an oven...but the bakery
sure does!  Maybe it's a conspiracy.)

OTOH, you can expect lots of rice, kimchi, and other things like spinach,
green or barley tea, bean curd, etc. just by virtue of being there.

YHL