Tourists in US: complaining about food

[Cub Mistress]

Originally Posted by zagloba

How do you milk a maggot?

very carefully?

[dukette71]

Originally Posted by Cub Mistress

It was "the cheese on the pizza is wrong, the butter for our bread didn't taste right, the bread was too soft, the menu didn't have any sausages, your coffee tastes funny, why do you people even eat cornbread?, can't we have everything just like at hooooooome?"

This traveler is just rude no matter where he/she is from. Maybe an adolescent?

I guess you expect more tolerance from Europeans because they have to deal with people of different cultures more often than most Americans due to proximity to other countries.

[thelurkinghorror]

Originally Posted by zagloba

How do you milk a maggot?

Have fun sleeping!

[fumster]

Originally Posted by Dave Hartwick

Some of it really is just a matter of taste. As I mentioned before, Australians visiting the US complain about the coffee. I fail to see how espresso is objectively better than Americano. It's like saying that whiskey is better than beer. I prefer one over the other, but that doesn't make somebody who differs is incorrect.

An Americano is espresso diluted with hot water to the strength of American-style coffee. Any place you could get a decent Americano would serve decent espresso as well.

[dukette71]

All the food snobbery aside, you can learn a lot from trying food from the local hole in the wall (Anthony Bourdain style). Maybe Europeans are unique in wanting leafy greens sprinkled with the finest olive oils and garden grown herbs.

Maybe?

[An Gadaí]

OK I'll admit, as a European or Irish entity, cornbread makes no sense to me. It's like coarse madeira cake. I can't imagine eating madeira cake with anything other than a sugary cup of tea.