I'm afraid if I lived here I would weigh 500 pounds...and yet, I don't see too many overweight people here???
Here is lunch..and dinner is the same except a table of appetizers before the two courses and also fruit at the end...and wine with every meal....prosciutto and cheese and bread at every meal, too, even breakfast.
Prosciutto, cheese, bread and peppers
(At almost every meal)
First Dish is Always a Pasta
Secundo is Always Meat or Seafood
What's funny is I would be happy to live on gelato and tarallini ..... haha
Must start major diet when I get back home.
Also, a little about the culture here. Very relaxed. No strict times for much of anything....which is kind of nice.
Stores don't open until about 10:00. Then everything closes...all the stores...and school is out about 1:00.
Nothing opens back up until after 4:00 p.m. People and kids go home to have lunch, relax, take a nap or whatever. Some schools of classes on Saturday mornings. Nothing is open too much on Sundays, I even heard the buses and trains don't run on Sunday here....it is a day to spend with family and relax with friends.
Dinner is never earlier than 8:00 p.m. -- you would think I would be hungry by 8:00, but I'm not. Dinner usually lasts a couple of hours.
Another cultural difference are the bathrooms. Usually there isn't any toilet paper or paper towels and sometimes just the rim of the toilet with no seat. I have seen bidets in some of the public restrooms. We have a bidet in our hotel room. I have learned to take little packets of tissue with me wherever I go haha.
I would just be in heaven with that food every day! While you are there, I would be interested in finding out the prevalence of prescription medications taken there. And how about artificial sweeteners? ..equal, nutrasweet, diet drinks, etc. do they serve the artificial sweeteners there Ike they do here? Packets on tables?
ReplyDeleteThe toilets sound...uh....crappy. LOL
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Carmie,
ReplyDeleteI will ask the teacher about the prescription drugs. I have not seen any packets of artificial sweetner anywhere. We go to a cafe by the school often and there are only packets of whte sugar and sugar in the raw on the tables. At breakfast I have o ly seen white sugar in dispensers.
The 15 year old boy in our group I think has ordered Coke, and I don't think it was diet. I wll checknand see if they have diet soft drink products.
I have a cold and sore throat and I went to the farmacia and the cough syrup and throat losengers were behind the counter. It was 16 euro for them also.