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Zod said:
sneijder said:
I was 16 and on a school trip in France. I don't speak French.
I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
Yes, the French were definitely at fault there.I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
sneijder said:
Zod said:
sneijder said:
I was 16 and on a school trip in France. I don't speak French.
I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
Yes, the French were definitely at fault there.I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
thatone1967 said:
sneijder said:
Zod said:
sneijder said:
I was 16 and on a school trip in France. I don't speak French.
I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
Yes, the French were definitely at fault there.I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
shakotan said:
DXB said:
I've asked for a diet coke before and got some hideous half orange juice half coke concoction. Apparently it's quite a common mix?? 
Ah, 'Mud'. It's sounds/looks disgusting, but it's actually quite pleasant.Zod said:
thatone1967 said:
sneijder said:
Zod said:
sneijder said:
I was 16 and on a school trip in France. I don't speak French.
I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
Yes, the French were definitely at fault there.I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
thatone1967 said:
Zod said:
thatone1967 said:
sneijder said:
Zod said:
sneijder said:
I was 16 and on a school trip in France. I don't speak French.
I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
Yes, the French were definitely at fault there.I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
In a hotel in Rio, I pointed to a dish on the menu, which clearly said in English :-
Salad
A bowl of soup turned up, thinking this was the starter, drunk it........ 4 beers later, no sign of salad, gave up and went to bed.
Next night, same thing, so I spoke to the waiter, who said something I didnt understand, and came back with the manager who spoke english.
I explained the salad v soup on the menu, he looked at the menu, smiled and said "Sorry, we make a mistake", they had put the english word Salad next to the local word for soup.
Salad
A bowl of soup turned up, thinking this was the starter, drunk it........ 4 beers later, no sign of salad, gave up and went to bed.
Next night, same thing, so I spoke to the waiter, who said something I didnt understand, and came back with the manager who spoke english.
I explained the salad v soup on the menu, he looked at the menu, smiled and said "Sorry, we make a mistake", they had put the english word Salad next to the local word for soup.
shakotan said:
DXB said:
I've asked for a diet coke before and got some hideous half orange juice half coke concoction. Apparently it's quite a common mix??
Ah, 'Mud'. It's sounds/looks disgusting, but it's actually quite pleasant. (probably doesn't help I don't like orange juice though!)Zod said:
thatone1967 said:
Zod said:
thatone1967 said:
sneijder said:
Zod said:
sneijder said:
I was 16 and on a school trip in France. I don't speak French.
I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
Yes, the French were definitely at fault there.I asked for a Coke, guy says 'Croque monseir ?', I assumed he meant 'Coke, Sir ?'. 'Wee' I replied.
Despite being gasping for a drink, I had to play it cool when 10 minutes later I was chewing on some melted cheese sandwich monstrosity.
True story, and to this day I have never since set foot on French soil thankyouverymuch.
shirt said:
zollburgers said:
I have a similar problem when I ask for a pint of coke. I live down south but lived up north for the first 24 years of my life. I've had a pint of Carling (understandable but was amusing at the time as I'd told all my work mates I wasn't drinking and then came back with a Carling), a pint of Magners (??) but the most weird was a glass of rose wine (?????).
I ask for Pepsi now.
outside of the shire, I have to speak the queens when ordering coke.I ask for Pepsi now.
Zod said:
If you don't speak the language, you can expect to be surprised when ordering random dishes from the menu!
Some years back a mate and I were in Hong Kong for a two or three days as part of a lay-over before going onward to NZ.Decided to get away from the main tourist areas and headed for the backstreets of Kowloon with the intention of getting some lunch. Chose a tiny little place and of course all the menus were in Chinese so we decided to order 3 dishes each, one from the beginning, middle and end of the menu (on the assumption it might be set out like a Chinese takeaway
) and take pot luck on what arrived.Waitress seemed to be trying to dissuade us but we gave the thumbs up as the price seemed right (about 7 GBP/each) so eventually she shrugged and went away.
Food started arriving and it turned out that we had been ordering from some kind of set menu - we had ordered 6 meals between us consisting of 3 or 4 dishes each...
The waiter had to bring another table to accomodate the amount of food
Still, we became quite popular as we invited the other diners (with a classic example of Brits abroad sign-language) to take advantage of our impromptu free buffet
In an Indian restaurant in Fulham, on a very hot day in August, I walk in and order three Cobras and three pints of lime cordial. I could see the Rose's - it was on the bar, and downing your first pint in one due to extreme sweaty thirst is bad form.
Three pints swiftly emerge, sans lime cordial. The waiter is called over, apologises, and strangely, takes the pints.
Three pints re-emerge, which are sipped. Then sipped again, suspiciously.
The waiter is called over and interrogated. The lime had been added to the beer. In some quantity resulting in a horrific concoction.
The waiter was recalled and re-briefed. confusing cleared up, three fresh beers were fetched.
Accompanied by 568ml of neat lime cordial.
Second time round, i gave up, asked for three pints of water, and quietly fixed my own soft drink....
Three pints swiftly emerge, sans lime cordial. The waiter is called over, apologises, and strangely, takes the pints.
Three pints re-emerge, which are sipped. Then sipped again, suspiciously.
The waiter is called over and interrogated. The lime had been added to the beer. In some quantity resulting in a horrific concoction.
The waiter was recalled and re-briefed. confusing cleared up, three fresh beers were fetched.
Accompanied by 568ml of neat lime cordial.
Second time round, i gave up, asked for three pints of water, and quietly fixed my own soft drink....
Thunderace said:
Sat at a bar in France, the wifebeast decides she'd like a Kir, a nice mix of white wine and cassis. She ordered in her best French and was too embarassed to argue when a large ham and egg tart (quiche 
) turned up so just tucked in.
You'd better hope she doesn't read PH! ) turned up so just tucked in.Try having a London accent and getting in to a cab in New York and asking to go to Wall Street.
Went to Coney Island for the weekend, went up to an Ice Cream Van and asked for water. "Vodka?", "no, water". "Vodka?" You like bottle of Vodka yes?" "err no, WATER". (Coney Island NY having a massive Russian population for those who don't know).
Went to Coney Island for the weekend, went up to an Ice Cream Van and asked for water. "Vodka?", "no, water". "Vodka?" You like bottle of Vodka yes?" "err no, WATER". (Coney Island NY having a massive Russian population for those who don't know).
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