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Tsalagi1
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Posted: Mon Jul 13th, 2009 12:34 am |
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zonnebloem wrote: Tsalagi1 schreef:
zonnebloem wrote: There is so much good food in the US, it's a pity the Americans take so little time to enjoy it.
On all my trips to the US I have not succeeded in having a normal dining experience. Everything is rushed there. They serve your starter, main course and dessert all well within an hour instead of the usual three hours that one would normally take to enjoy a good meal.
You mean to tell me the Dutch will spend 3 hours in a friggin restaurant????????
Yes, and not only the Dutch for that matter. What is so strange about that? You're paying good money for a good meal. You don't want to rush it but enjoy your meal.
Well...because if I was a restaurant owner...I've got paying customers that can't sit because you wan't to jawjack for hours on end.
Besides..last thing I want is to sit for hours in a restaurant having to hear everyone else's stories or family gossip or complaints, babies crying, birthday parties being thrown..etc.
I go there to eat, and get the hell out...if I want to enjoy a meal...I'll make it at home and sit in the comfort of my home..I go out because I'm too tired to fix dinner.
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Mazel Schlimazel
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Posted: Mon Jul 13th, 2009 03:11 am |
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Tsalagi1 wrote: zonnebloem wrote: Tsalagi1 schreef:
zonnebloem wrote: There is so much good food in the US, it's a pity the Americans take so little time to enjoy it.
On all my trips to the US I have not succeeded in having a normal dining experience. Everything is rushed there. They serve your starter, main course and dessert all well within an hour instead of the usual three hours that one would normally take to enjoy a good meal.
You mean to tell me the Dutch will spend 3 hours in a friggin restaurant????????
Yes, and not only the Dutch for that matter. What is so strange about that? You're paying good money for a good meal. You don't want to rush it but enjoy your meal.
Well...because if I was a restaurant owner...I've got paying customers that can't sit because you wan't to jawjack for hours on end.
Besides..last thing I want is to sit for hours in a restaurant having to hear everyone else's stories or family gossip or complaints, babies crying, birthday parties being thrown..etc.
I go there to eat, and get the hell out...if I want to enjoy a meal...I'll make it at home and sit in the comfort of my home..I go out because I'm too tired to fix dinner.
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Just got back from a fine Thai cuisine in the UW district of Seattle... I looove it.. Unlike alot of Chinese food, it doesn't leave you bloated and semi-noxious.. And the spices and panang sauce was suberp. 
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zonnebloem
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Posted: Mon Jul 13th, 2009 07:01 am |
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Tsalagi1 schreef:
zonnebloem wrote: Tsalagi1 schreef:
zonnebloem wrote: There is so much good food in the US, it's a pity the Americans take so little time to enjoy it.
On all my trips to the US I have not succeeded in having a normal dining experience. Everything is rushed there. They serve your starter, main course and dessert all well within an hour instead of the usual three hours that one would normally take to enjoy a good meal.
You mean to tell me the Dutch will spend 3 hours in a friggin restaurant????????
Yes, and not only the Dutch for that matter. What is so strange about that? You're paying good money for a good meal. You don't want to rush it but enjoy your meal.
Well...because if I was a restaurant owner...I've got paying customers that can't sit because you wan't to jawjack for hours on end.
When you go out to eat in a restaurant here in NL, the table is yours for the whole evening. You aren't rushed, you can take all night if you want. You have joints were that is not the case. That aren't restaurants. That is a "snack bar".
Seems like you're saying that you have only snack bars in the US and no restaurants.
Besides..last thing I want is to sit for hours in a restaurant having to hear everyone else's stories or family gossip or complaints, babies crying, birthday parties being thrown..etc.
You aren't there to listen to other peoples stories (besides it's good manners to not speak too loud at the table), you are there to enjoy the food and company of your family and or friends.
I go there to eat, and get the hell out...if I want to enjoy a meal...I'll make it at home and sit in the comfort of my home..I go out because I'm too tired to fix dinner.
That's what we have take away for, if you want to have a depressing lonely and quick meal you might as well consume it in the privacy of your home.
Eating is a social event, and eating out is a night's entertainment.
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Tsalagi1
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Posted: Mon Jul 13th, 2009 04:31 pm |
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zonnebloem wrote: Tsalagi1 schreef:
zonnebloem wrote: Tsalagi1 schreef:
zonnebloem wrote: There is so much good food in the US, it's a pity the Americans take so little time to enjoy it.
On all my trips to the US I have not succeeded in having a normal dining experience. Everything is rushed there. They serve your starter, main course and dessert all well within an hour instead of the usual three hours that one would normally take to enjoy a good meal.
You mean to tell me the Dutch will spend 3 hours in a friggin restaurant????????
Yes, and not only the Dutch for that matter. What is so strange about that? You're paying good money for a good meal. You don't want to rush it but enjoy your meal.
Well...because if I was a restaurant owner...I've got paying customers that can't sit because you wan't to jawjack for hours on end.
When you go out to eat in a restaurant here in NL, the table is yours for the whole evening. You aren't rushed, you can take all night if you want. You have joints were that is not the case. That aren't restaurants. That is a "snack bar".
Seems like you're saying that you have only snack bars in the US and no restaurants.
Besides..last thing I want is to sit for hours in a restaurant having to hear everyone else's stories or family gossip or complaints, babies crying, birthday parties being thrown..etc.
You aren't there to listen to other peoples stories (besides it's good manners to not speak too loud at the table), you are there to enjoy the food and company of your family and or friends.
I go there to eat, and get the hell out...if I want to enjoy a meal...I'll make it at home and sit in the comfort of my home..I go out because I'm too tired to fix dinner.
That's what we have take away for, if you want to have a depressing lonely and quick meal you might as well consume it in the privacy of your home.
Eating is a social event, and eating out is a night's entertainment.
Your table is yours for the whole evening?????...Imagine how much money that restaurant loses out on??? Guess the intent is to not make a profit where you live?
A snack bar is where I get candy...so no..your description fits someone's home if they get to stay all nite.
As for listening to someone else's issues..rather difficult not hear them when your table is right beside someone else's isn't it? Maybe where you're from it's good manners to not speak loud..here..I hear babies crying, birthday parties..etc..etc.. I mean, their booth is right opposite mine..only way I couldn't hear them is if I put in ear plugs.
As for take away..if I was that tired to make my own dinner..what makes you think I'm not just as tired to get dressed and go get my dinner for pickup????
My meals in a restaurant aren't lonely...I'm hungry..and therefore I eat..I'm not eating to have a social life..now THAT would be rather depressing...that you have to got to a restaurant to have a social life??
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zonnebloem
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Posted: Tue Jul 14th, 2009 09:41 am |
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So basically you're confirming what I observed while being in the States. Food is not seen there as something to enjoy with family and friends, but just "stuff" to fill your stomach with.
BTW, I doubt you've ever been hungry. We don't live in the third world. We don't know what hunger is.
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Tsalagi1
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Posted: Tue Jul 14th, 2009 06:41 pm |
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zonnebloem wrote: So basically you're confirming what I observed while being in the States. Food is not seen there as something to enjoy with family and friends, but just "stuff" to fill your stomach with.
BTW, I doubt you've ever been hungry. We don't live in the third world. We don't know what hunger is.
No..on the contary...eating at my home is a joy with my friends come over, enjoy a nice big plate of pasta or some fried chicken, but the end...it is just stuff to fill my stomach with...the social event isn't the food..that's just a means to an end...the social event is friends or family over at your house. I don't have to go out to a restaurant and pay $15.00 for a plate of chicken alfredo when I can make it at home for 1/3 the price and no need for taxes or tips.
As for whether or not I've been hungry..correction..I may not have been "starving"..but there is no doubt I get "hungry"...
As for the 3rd World..I take it you never visited an Indian Reservation while you were here....
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Ya i also love U.S.A. I have been in Alaska in 2007 and i found that it is really beautiful city.
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