Europe overcharges for everything

[John 432456]

over 50 dollars for a 12 ounce steak is outrageous

[mnehring]

It depends on the steak. Properly cooked Wagyu will blow your mind.

[mamelukesabre]

meh

I’m pan frying chicken livers right now. $1.50/lb

keep your 50dollar piece of meat.

[50mm]

Retread?

[Windflier]

A barkeep in Paris once tried to rip me and a friend off by charging us $18 for a single pitcher of FRENCH beer. (WTF - over?)

He must have figured me for a stupid tourist, but I’d been living in England for a while, and could rapidly calculate francs, to pounds, to dollars.

I wound up paying the fair price for it after reaming him out. In English.

[J Edgar]

Our Lady Of Fatima said Rome (Europe) will suffer for throwing off the sweet yoke of Her Divine Son.
I have no sympathy for arrogant Europe! They will be overrun by Muslim hoards as a result of abandoning the Faith their foundational Faith! As Israel was destroyed for not recoginizing Our Beloved Savior, so shall Rome be destroyed for not being faithful to His Divine mission. IMHO

[ASOC]

HOw much is that in Euros?

In Deutschmark?

AMeros?

Pesos?

Baht?

Thailand?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Norway, 2005: (very strong Euro then)

collared shirt, just an ordinary, non-designer label business shirt: $75.

Jeans, non-designer: $125.

Beer in a pub: $10

Big Mac meal: $15.

Reputedly, minimum wage was about $20 an hour, but I could not confirm that.

Tax rate: nearing 70%.

[listenhillary]

Being banned from FR? Priceless

I must have missed all of the fun.

[raybbr]

IBTz

[FourPeas]

Brilliant post. Fail.

[50mm]

The original poster lasted only a few minutes.

[50mm]

Nope. IATZ.

[Grizzled Bear]

Steak is cheap, here in Montana. We’re up to our necks in beef! People come up to you and beg you to take steak off their hands, no joke.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Water is wet. Video @ 11:00. ;-)

[GSP.FAN]

I am eating fish tacos as we speak ,bought 4 today at a $1.75 each from the roach coach...:>)

[Travis McGee]

Tip: NEVER ask for the English menu. The prices are jacked up for tourists. Use the same menu the locals are using, even if you need help translating this or that.

[50mm]

Maybe it was expensive because it was special.

[FlyingEagle]

Fried him

[PLMerite]

Damn, rough trade.

What did he do ?

[50mm]

I don’t know. That’s why I asked the Admin Mod.

[Windflier]

Tip: NEVER ask for the English menu. The prices are jacked up for tourists.

Dittos.

I learned that while living abroad.

[Responsibility2nd]

50 dollars for a steak? That is high.

But the sizzle (zot) is free!

[ebshumidors]

Aah, the old gut truck. Haven’t seen one in a long while.

[50mm]

The steak guy, John 432456, got ZOTted and we don't know why. Do we really need a reason?

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[Travis McGee]

I lived in Guam for a while, and the Japanese tourists were really ripped off with the Japanese language menues. Prices were easily doubled.

[Grizzled Bear]

I lived in Guam for a while, and the Japanese tourists were really ripped off with the Japanese language menues. Prices were easily doubled.

What would happen if a restaurant in the U.S. tried this (he asked knowingly)?

[Travis McGee]

Guam is US territory....more or less. The way they explained the menu differences was to claim the Japanese menu items were “specially made” or some such BS. Toss on a layer of raw onions, and the special Nippon Burger is now $12 on the Japanese language menu.

[little jeremiah]

I think he just wandered into the wrong room by mistake. Perhaps under the influence.

[wyokostur]

[GSP.FAN]

They have evolved usually owned by a Mexican restaurant,but prices 50% cheaper it is also a form of advertising...
On Friday they do a fish menu (catholic thing)sold out of Ceviche tacos before i got to order so settled on the fish..
Excellent ..:>)

[boop]

I’ve heard Hawaiian natives raise their prices for Japanese customers, too.

[mlocher]

I like my steak “zotted”

[guitarplayer1953]

Hate to say it mate but Europe had long been civilized before the birth of Christ.

[J Edgar]

Yeah sure, as in Rome Coliseum feeding Christian to Lions for fun! Yep Right On!

[element92]

ollared shirt, just an ordinary, non-designer label business shirt: $75. ...special bad deal for Americans...

Jeans, non-designer: $125. ...special bad deal for Americans...

Beer in a pub: $10 ...special bad deal for Americans...

Big Mac meal: $15. ...special bad deal for Americans...

Reputedly, minimum wage was about $20 an hour, but I could not confirm that.

Tax rate: nearing 70%.

[rdl6989]

I like my steak “zotted”

I like trolls well done.

[riri]

I have posted about this many times to try and make Americans who have never spent time here understand.

Yep, a steak will run you $50

Just name it and it costs, at least double. Sometimes 3,4, or 5 times as much.

McDonalds or Burger King for my family of four is $35.

[riri]

Yep. I am in Scandinavia, wages are lower than American. I don't know about the minimum but professional wages.

The only way this can be done is if you don't have a family. it's just a sad way to live.

[riri]

They don’t get it, they think these are “ripping off the tourists” prices...Ah man, Americans you are in for a rude awakening when Obama is done with us.

[OCCASparky]

Speaking of Guam, I went to the dog track there once—ONCE. All Japanese tourists. As I was leaving, the tourists were trying to catch cabs, and pointing to the meters. The taxi drivers would then make a motion as if to say the meter was broken. They were notorious for overcharging incredible amounts. One story had a tourist getting ripped for $800 to go from the dog track to the Outrigger—ONE WAY. For those not familiar with Guam, that’s about a 3 mile trip, tops.

[grey_whiskers]

Hate to say it mate but Europe had long been civilized before the birth of Christ.

...and now, once again, and long after the birth of Christ, they are seeing civilization slip from their grasp, as self-indulgent metrosexual (queer, rebellious) men and post-modernist, post-feminist (queer, rebellious) women focus on self-aggrandizement to the point of refusing to pass on their genes.

That, and being stupid enough to import millions of pre-civilized Muslims (who consider it a divine mandate to subjugate the world by force, and are only too happy to extract revenge on the once-Christian Europe for turning back the Caliphate a millenium or so ago). Ostensibly to perform menial tasks and to provide taxes for a socialist welfare state -- but who actually end up becoming brood-sow leeches who are combining violent overthrow with domination from within.

It's odd, isn't it, how Europe's greatest cultural achievements and glorious past (as opposed to, say, the Terror, the Holocaust, the Napoleonic wars) are firmly rooted in Christianity.

As the sign says, "Get a Brain, Moran."

Cheers!

[Arrowhead1952]

over 50 dollars for a 12 ounce steak is outrageous

Any troll on FR is outrageous. If you are so worried about the price of steak in Europe, why did you go there? Try some of the restaurants on the River Walk in San Antonio. There is one that the cheapest steak is $44.95 for eight ounces.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Ahhhhhh....T-Bone!

It’s whats for dinner!

[darkwing104]

It's called Socialism...

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.

[reagan_fanatic]

He came to us complaining about steak
how much it cost and how little he got
he should have invested in sunscreen, poor fellow
to relieve the pain of the zot

[TheOldLady]

IATZ! Again, but who cares?

Why, oh why was this one ZOTted?

Why

[darkwing104]

Why, oh why was this one ZOTted?

Retread Trolls always gets zotted...

[TheOldLady]

Yes, I caught that from an earlier post. I was just showing off my question-mark lightning pic. ;-D

[guitarplayer1953]

There are many beautiful art objects that were made by the Celts prior to Christ.