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Old January 22nd, 2013, 03:37 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
Tim C.[_5_]
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Default How to eat cheap in Paris?

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:36:19 -0700, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote in
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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.

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Old January 22nd, 2013, 08:44 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
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Default 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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