Huh, pretty cool. I live in the blue area, and always thought others used the same type, because that's what I've seen in all the places I've been. Is there data available for the rest of the world?
Thanks, but that URL doesn't load on my phone, so I'll check it out on my PC tomorrow. I'm curious if all the countries I've visited have used French style.
In latin America spanish style cards are often used, and you might find some southern italian designs with italian-americans. But for the most part the rest of the world uses the standard “french” suits.
Also, nowadays if you ask for a deck of cards in most of the other places, you’re still likely to get a french-suited deck. Usually the american style (think of your typical bycicle brand card deck).
When I tried to buy a dutch style deck here in the Netherlands they didn't even have it at my local board game store! I had to order them online.
There's a Dutch suit too?? I feel like some island inhabitant who just learned that there's a whole world out there full of people, planes, porn, and pop culture, after having grown up alone with his coconuts. This is definitely a rabbit hole I need to explore.
Only Latin American country I've been to is Brazil, and at least the deck of cards we had there was French suit.
Consider that all these lunches are subsidised by the company, which if you think about it could have either completely subsidize or pay workers more and make lunches full price. This lunch format easily costs 8€ or more full price.
Side note: I actually do like for companies to subsidize lunch since it's usually money that is exempt of taxes up to a point (depending on the region) so the workers save money by doing so.
I do like it as well when companies subsidize lunch, but one downside is that in practice, people with certain allergies can't enjoy those schemes some/most/all of the time. While seeing their coworkers enjoying cheap food.
It all depends on the company for sure. I'm not sure about the laws in EU, but in the US you genrally have with X amount of employees you must have a space for eating, break room, etc, and with X more employees the company must provide food service on site.
Some choose to subsidize some or all of the food. Basically the FS provider would submit a bill at the end of the other to the company to make up the difference. Boy, let me tell you, those meetings were super fun!
We had one company provide coffee to each floor (4, plus exec level), and said coffee was kept in unlocked cabinets in the coffee room. Our first bill to the company on coffee alone was 10k (for about 600 employees), and then it went up from there.
Flash forward to an average 20k in coffee a month and the meeting with the CFO to see what feasibility to take out the coffee machines and replace them with soda fountains... GOOD GOD CFOs are the most dense, single minded motherfuckers on the planet.
I'm no longer a part of US corp. life and I feel cleaner for it.
That's a fair concern. I think it could be fixed by asking workers about food allergies and avoiding those foods. Unless it's an absolutely massive company it should be feasible.
It's win-win for the business. They use the money that could go to salaries to encourage employees to work more hours by staying in the office for lunch.
That's not how it works in most places, working hours are fixed and breaks are typically mandated by law anyway, so you don't get to go home early just because you skipped lunch.
Plus, a healthy and tasty meal, subsidized by the employer, certainly beats me shopping for the ingredients and cooking when it comes to price and time invested. An actual problem is rather having access to a place that provides food like that.
What I mean is workers who leave for lunch are more likely to come back later. Coming back late from lunch happens all the time and no one is fired from Accounting for taking 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes.
Workers taking lunch with other workers in the office are also more likely to talk about work as compared to meeting friends outside of work for lunch. If you are talking about work during lunch with coworkers, that's like having an office meeting during lunch.
That depends on whether you are Greece (call it gyros) or Turkish (call it kebap) or whether you want to risk a fight (calling it gyros in front of Turkish people or vice versa).
With a Döner plate usually mixed salad is served and the yoghurt dressing would be on top of the Kebap meat. With a Gyros plate usually Tsaziki and coleslaw are served.
The things on top of the pudding look like decorative fake coffee beans made out of coffee flavoured chocolate. I'd be willing to take bets that the pudding is also coffee flavoured to stick with the theme.
You need yoghurt, the heavy stuff with 10% fat, olive oil, garlic, cucumber, pepper, and salt. Nothing else. No, no dill, no mint (WTF?), no nothing.
Julienne the cucumber. Very fine is better than fine as long as you're not producing mush. Salt it, let it stand for 10 minutes, then squeeze dry, toss the water. Add yoghurt, should be about two to three parts of yoghurt for one part cucumbers, by volume, don't sweat it. Take about a clove for 500g of yoghurt (that's a clove, not a bulb, yes it's quite little, but it's raw and it's going to infuse), surgically remove the sprout (that's where the nasty stuff is in garlic), chop finely. I said chop, not squeeze, yes it makes a difference. Add with pepper and salt and some olive oil, put in the fridge for at least one hour better a day, well covered (closed container is good, cling film if you have to), mix again and do final taste and consistency adjustment with pepper, salt and olive oil. Pepper should be subtle AF, supporting the garlic, not supplanting it.
...it's absolutely fine to do other yoghurt sauces and in fact in Germany you'll see three or four at any Döner shop, but don't call the non-tsasiki tsatsiki, please. If you want a herb sauce, call it herb sauce. There's no herbs in tsatsiki. (Sauces differ regionally in Germany -- there's always going to be tsatsiki, around here you also generally get curry, hot or mild, as well as cocktail sauce (no, not mayo based, it's still yoghurt)).
Oh I couldn't call any non tsatsiki sauce tsatsiki, since I actually hate it (sorry Greeks or Turks), that would actually be an insult to the sauce. :P
I'm genuinely shocked that people drink more wine than beer in Denmark. Considering Tuborg and Carlsberg both come from there, and the amount of beer I see people drink publicly, it seems genuinely doubtful to me.
The title of the graphics is a bit misleading, as it's not the amount of wine, beer or spirits which is most in each country, it is the the amount of (pure) alcohol from wine, beer or spirits. And one often can see people drinking wine in the Nordics.
Maybe its because its of a work canteen, but would like a source there lol, i have never seen anything like that for such price, not even in schools you get it for that price so unless this is a very specific situation where that price for lunches is part of the contract i doubt its real (im from spain btw)
Döner Kebab in bread is a much more recent invention than the same thing on a plate. Traditionally you'd get rice dunno how it's in Turkey but in Germany there's generally a choice of rice or fries.
Thus what you're looking at is a Dönerteller mit Pommes, arguably a very sorry one. Technically the salad is present, in practice, no, salad generally consists of more than just onion. You can order "Nur Zwiebel" instead of "Mit Alles" but they're going to feel sorry for you.
Ausländer im Germany, 7€ for a potato's soup with one sausage cut in pieces. Or, a schnitzel with fries. Or, noodles with bolognese. And... I pay for it with my salary.
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