Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> Steve Firth wrote:
> > Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> >>Marcus Houlden wrote:
> >>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:48:44 +0000, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk>
> >>>wrote the following to uk.misc:
> >>>>Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> >>>>>I had some racist .nut going on in the pub one day about how "they
> >>>>>should all go home" but, of course, not any of these English/Scottish
> >>>>>white people he was drinking with until I told him my family had come
> >>>>>across from southern Germany in the 1680s. At this point I was told I
> >>>>>should go home too. Funny, he didn't even know where his dad was
> >>>>>born.
> >>>>
> >>>>In the Austrian pub? That would add an ironic element to the tale.
> >>>
> >>>Even more so if he was drinking lager.
> >>
> >>All they sell is imported Austrian beer/lager and Austrian food.
> >
> > Although they had to give up selling it in litres. Still need a bloody
> > overdraft to drink there though.
>
> I think they have to sell you a pint if you ask for one. That seemed to
> be how the case was settled. You're right though, it's a long way from
> cheap, especially the food, but it is good.
And they used to let me practice my German on them, which was very kind
of them. |