Subj : Re: Favourite Fast Food
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Mar 10 2022 22:47:03

 pF> I was in a drinking department with an IT problem several years back.
 pF> Our IT  department for a global gaming company (hint: Lara Croft) used
 pF> to have  quarterly department all-hands meetings in one of our office
 pF> locations - we  had offices in Paris, Hamburg, London and San Francisco.
 pF> 
 pF> When we went to Germany, most of the bars seemed to have one tap, or at 
 pF> least one "default" beer - the details are understandably fuzzy. When
 pF> we'd  order a round of drinks, we'd hold up 4 fingers and say (phonetic,
 pF> as I  don't want to look up high ascii) "vier grosse,bitte".
 pF> 
 pF> That was all the German I learned, as *everyone* I ran into spoke
 pF> English.

I do know a bit of German, but my favourite phrase to use there was "zwei pfankucken bitte" (two jam donuts please).

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