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The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread
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93boomer
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Ours was like that last week
Songbird76
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Yep, that's pretty true. Stores are also closed on Sundays, and on Monday mornings. If you didn't get something on Saturday, you'll have to wait until Monday afternoon to get it. I still forget that once in a while and I'll bike to the centrum for something in the morning and find all the stores closed. In the last 2 years or so, the grocery stores started opening for limited hours on Sunday. They never used to be open on Sundays or holidays. When I moved here, grocery stores opened at 9am and closed at like 7pm, Monday through Friday, 8-5 on Saturdays, closed Sundays. Our grocery store here has slowly extended its hours and is open until 10pm now, which is the latest I've seen here. And they open at 7 now, since covid started...It had been opening at 8 for the last couple of years. And they are open 10-7 on Sundays since covid started. It used to be 1-6pm, and that was only a year or so before covid started. Before that, you couldn't get groceries on Sunday, or a holiday. I remember one year when Christmas fell on a Friday...it was MURDER. Everything closed down Early on the Thursday night, then was closed until Monday. By Thursday afternoon the shelves were pretty empty...everyone had to get everything for their entire Christmas weekend on that Thursday....all their food for 3 full days, including a nice fancy meal for Christmas. There wasn't a package of whipping cream or butter to be found, Milk was gone, good luck finding anything nicer than a chicken breast. Mushrooms....forget it. And the stores were PACKED already on Wednesday, everyone buying up as much as they could fit in their fridge to last the whole weekend. It was ridiculous! Now they usually only close for one day, if they close for a whole day. A lot of times they'll just do Sunday hours on the holiday.
As for the sirens, they actually put it on the news last time to remind people of the testing because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They were afraid people would think we were being attacked, so they put a reminder in the news that it was the first Monday of the month and the sirens would go off at noon.
But yes, the things the Dutch THINK are American really aren't. You can't trust anything that advertises that it's American. If it says "American", it's not. We went to a vacation park for a weekend once, and it advertised an "American breakfast buffet." I was so excited, thinking about biscuits and gravy, waffles, etc. There was nothing remotely American on that buffet. They had scrambled eggs....with salmon in them. They had cornflakes and cheerios, and the rest was just bread, cheese, and meat slices, which we don't eat for breakfast...that's what the Dutch eat for breakfast. But because they had scrambled eggs, all be it with salmon in them, they considered that "American".
I'd also add that even American fast food chains are different here. We finally got KFC here a few years ago....well, not in my town, but there's one in Arnhem, and one in the town where my husband works, but they don't have the same menu. No biscuits, no mashed potatoes, very limited choices. No such thing as "extra crispy" chicken. You can get original recipe, chicken strips, or hotwings. That's it. Sides are fries (which SUCK), coleslaw, or a half an ear of corn on the cob. McDonalds doesn't open until 10am, and they only serve breakfast until 11. And the breakfast menu consists of Egg McMuffin, with or without Bacon or sausage. That's it. You can get a combi deal that includes a croissant and jam with that egg mcmuffin. There are no other breakfast items. No pancakes, no biscuits, no hashbrowns, no scrambled eggs or anything. And they only have Chocolate milkshakes in the colder months. In late spring, they get rid of the chocolate and bring in a fruity flavor for the summer. Last year I think it was like Mango Passionfruit? One year it was Raspberry, one year it was Pear. They have vanilla, strawberry, and Banana year round. And they aren't the fancy ones you get in the states that are really thick and come with whipped cream and a cherry. They're the older ones like you USED to get in the states...just the plain softserve type. When we went to the US in 2016, we had a milkshake at a McDonalds in an airport somewhere and were amazed by how much better they are Stateside. I don't think we have ever had the McRib. But then, we have stroopwaffel blizzards, so it kind of evens out.
Goofyernmost
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Sure, but were do you have to go really?
Figgy1
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I hear Donna got him a roomier cage for their anniversary
Goofyernmost
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Thanks I was just wondering what I had available for dinner tonight. Time to go Italian. Pisgetty tonight!
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hi everyone i have autism im just chilling today o hope everyone's day is good
This weekend includes high winds, snow, freezing rain, and wind chills as low as zero. 