Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

We have learned:


>> >> Very true. But you can replace it by the fact that French people eat a
>> >>lot of
>> >> bread. So much that in most restaurants bread is free, as well as
>>water.
>> >
>> >Even at a lot of decent restaurants in Canada bread is free. Well, not
>> >always completely free, but you usally get *some* free. Although that
>> >could be French influence.
>>
>>..or British influence  :)
>>
>>Like our French cousins, we expect bread & water to be free in
restaurants.
>
>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 ...
>
There are SOME hoity-toity restaurants in the US where your bill includes a
mysterious "couvert" which apparently includes the napkin, silverware, glass
of water, and bread.  Sneaky.  But it's usually free, even if sometimes
inedible......