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How to eat cheap in Paris?
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:36:19 -0700, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote in
post : : gtr wrote: Take canned foods with you and save a lot of money. Horrifying, I know. I had some friends that went to Tokyo for a week and took a suitcase full of canned foods. They were fearful they'd have to eat !RAW FISH! or nothing. They are a strange--but frugal--couple. When I was young, I knew a former WAAC who had been stationed in Japan after WWII. She lived there for two years, and never even SAMPLED Japanese food! (True, we don't all have the same tastes in food, but TWO YEARS without even TRYING the native cuisine?) Sounds like most of the soldiers and families in the US bases around Stuttgart back in the mid/late 80s. I believe (was told by a couple of soldiers on separate occasions) they were actively discouraged from mingling with the natives, even out of uniform and the families too. Best stay on the base. They had everything they need there anyway, even down to imported American milk. There were one or two shopping centres which were near bases and were popular shopping places for the soldiers and their families, but on the whole they were hardly ever seen or heard off base. Any Americans around were most likely tourists. -- Tim C. |
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How to eat cheap in Paris?
Tim C. wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:36:19 -0700, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote in post : : gtr wrote: Take canned foods with you and save a lot of money. Horrifying, I know. I had some friends that went to Tokyo for a week and took a suitcase full of canned foods. They were fearful they'd have to eat !RAW FISH! or nothing. They are a strange--but frugal--couple. When I was young, I knew a former WAAC who had been stationed in Japan after WWII. She lived there for two years, and never even SAMPLED Japanese food! (True, we don't all have the same tastes in food, but TWO YEARS without even TRYING the native cuisine?) Sounds like most of the soldiers and families in the US bases around Stuttgart back in the mid/late 80s. I believe (was told by a couple of soldiers on separate occasions) they were actively discouraged from mingling with the natives, even out of uniform and the families too. Best stay on the base. They had everything they need there anyway, even down to imported American milk. There were one or two shopping centres which were near bases and were popular shopping places for the soldiers and their families, but on the whole they were hardly ever seen or heard off base. Any Americans around were most likely tourists. That's even MORE weird! Japanese food may have appeared too exotic to a WAAC from the American Midwest, but a great many "American" foods originated with German-American immigrants to the U.S. |
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