Comments on: Surprise holiday lunch http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Joeri http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7903 Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:38:34 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7903 Jessica: we don’t tip in the Benelux because the prices are “tip included” and the personnel is payed a decent wage. It’s not that we are too cheap to tip.

“Home” in Dutch is “thuis” which is probably difficult to pronounce because there’s no such diphthong in English.

]]> By: Jessica http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7902 Sun, 06 Oct 2002 00:06:44 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7902 Yeah, see, you expect it to be sweet, because well: fruit, dough, powdered sugar. But it’s tart and heavy.

I want one of them there bacon fried hot dogs with pommes frittes. With mayonnaise?

In all the guide books for the Netherlands they mention how you don’t really tip. I mean, you tip, but only rounding up or whatever small change you happen to have in your pocket, not the 20% any decent American would tip at home. (Which I spelled “hoom” the first time. Which is how you would make that sound if you were in the Benelux, right? I need to get out more.)

]]> By: miguel http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7901 Sat, 05 Oct 2002 15:45:16 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7901 happy surprise. it was one of those “moving feast” holidays that depend on the time of moon-rise or -set or something similar and variable that where you have to wait until the last minute for the Imam or someone to say if it’s today or tomorrow so you never know until right when it happens exactly when the holiday will be…

]]> By: chris http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7900 Sat, 05 Oct 2002 12:05:16 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7900 A surprise Moslem holiday?

Surprise for whom? Was it a ‘happy’ surprise or a ‘surprise’ surprise?

]]> By: bob the corgi http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7899 Sat, 05 Oct 2002 04:51:24 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7899 are you on a diet?
i am noticing a trend in your subject matter.

]]> By: ratty http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7898 Sat, 05 Oct 2002 02:42:26 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7898 just point.

“i, ummm, want one of THOSE”

]]> By: Miguel http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7897 Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:34:18 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7897 Although one might be better off not even saying that word at all.

]]> By: Miguel http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7896 Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:33:28 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7896 Tsvech-ken-k’ne-deln might be an approximate pronunciation for an English-speaker. Heh.

]]> By: Brian http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7895 Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:23:53 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7895 Easy for you to say….

]]> By: Solonor http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=2235&cpage=1#comment-7894 Fri, 04 Oct 2002 19:43:58 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=2235#comment-7894 I can hear the Austrian Homer Simpson now: Mmmmmmm….Zwetschkenkn

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