Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

>
> >
> > Ah, what an excellent opportunity to field my frustrations with Paris ;)
> > I
> > remember going to a restaurant (brasserie) with an Australian friend.
> > He
> > noticed a "hamburger" on the menu, and ordered it. When it came, there
> > was a
> > single meat slice with an egg on top (a "hamburger"), plus salad and
> > stuff,
> > plus French bread separate (intended as hamburger bread?); I laughed
> > big-time when I saw that plate come. He was very angry, and asked me to
> > have
> > a word with the waiter (as I spoke French, but not him). So when I made
> > a
> > polite suggestion to the waiter that the Australian would like his
> > hamburger
> > served with the proper bread and salad inside, he just snapped back,
> > in
> > passing: "C'est pas le MacDo ici, hein!" Jeez. The poor Australian was
> > just
> > boiling mad, and hardly even ate his 40-50-something-franc meal; we left
> > he
> > place in extreme frustration.
> >
>
When I sent the above to a friend, he said that he had a similar experience
while in Greece.

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