I am off on a holiday!!!!

@Ticomaya,

HA! Honestly I didn’t have a decent meal while in England or France. But when we got to Italy I ordered spaghetti Cool

@jcboy,

I had great food in England. I love pub food. Great Indian food there.

I did not care for the food in France. Except for the Greek food I had in "little Athens".

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Guys, next time you'll go to Germany - we have good food!!

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@CalamityJane,

How 'bout the next time I visit San Diego I have good German food?!!

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@Ticomaya,

Sure thing, Tico - when is your next time?
(I'll be gone most of August though)

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@CalamityJane,

CalamityJane wrote:

Not everyone is American, David!
In some places around the world vacation is called holiday.

Thank u for the translation, Jane.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

You knew that already Dave, you were just being bloody awkward.

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@CalamityJane,

Probably not for awhile, unfortunately. Sad

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@jcboy,

jcboy wrote:

I remember going to a McDonald’s in London and asked for a cheeseburger with no onions,
the girl behind the counter made fun of me and mocked my English,
she said “WITH NO ONIONS’ what does that mean, lol, I guess I should have said without onions.

That happened to me, in Austrailia.
As a tourist, I was advised to look at a lake.
I was trying to find it, going thru a park,
where I encountered 2 teenaged lovers.
I asked them where it was.
As I left, I heard the girl make fun of how I said: "lake".
Thay wanted me to say it as if it had an i in it; like "laike".

( See what our Austrailians have to say about that.)

David

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

She was probably just being cheeky.
Then again, the brightest sparks don't tend to work at McDonalds.

A comedian once told a story about going into a Sainsburys supermarket,
when she got to the checkout she handed over a Tescos loyalty card by mistake.

The cashier gave it back, but not before she'd checked her own
name badge see see which supermarket she worked for.

There was a NY trial attorney who was impassioned
in his argument of a motion to the trial judge.
After maybe 20 minutes of argument,
he leans over to the attorney next to him at the defense counsel table
and he asks: "which defendant am I representing in this case?"

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I remember being with my parents in France and we went out for dinner. I couldn’t read the menu so my mom said just order what you think sounds good, so I did and they brought me a deep fried fish with the head and tail still on it and that’s all that was on the plate.

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@jcboy,

jcboy wrote:

I remember being with my parents in France and we went out for dinner. I couldn’t read the menu so my mom said just order what you think sounds good, so I did and they brought me a deep fried fish with the head and tail still on it and that’s all that was on the plate.

Was it good ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

No it was awful, I had to get something to eat at our hotel.

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@jcboy,

jcboy wrote:

I remember being with my parents in France and we went out for dinner. I couldn’t read the menu so my mom said just order what you think sounds good, so I did and they brought me a deep fried fish with the head and tail still on it and that’s all that was on the plate.

I asked the waiter for a cheeseburger. They brought me a burger patty (cooked) with cheese on top. And that's all that was on the plate.

Everyone around me was eating steak tartar.

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@Ticomaya,

How the hell can you go to France and ask for American food? Serves you right then! As they say: when in Rome......

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@CalamityJane,

Well, as I said, everyone around me was eating raw steak. It's not like I could point to their plates and ask for what they were having.

Plus, I don't speak French.

And ... I know this is not widely known, but .... the French are a little snooty. When I asked some folks whether they spoke English, most shook their heads "no," until one guy said, "No, I only speak French." I stopped asking.

I figured a cheeseburger was safe.

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@Ticomaya,

Ticomaya wrote:

I did not care for the food in France. Except for the Greek food I had in "little Athens".

You mean in one of those tourist traps in rue Saint-Séverin and rue de la Huchette?

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@Walter Hinteler,

I don't recall where, exactly. Could be. There were a bunch of Greek restaurants in the area. We had a good time. Lots of plates were broken that night.

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@Ticomaya,

That must have been there

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@Walter Hinteler,

I looked at a youtube video of those streets, and it could have been either one of them.

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