On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, robin szemeti wrote:
> On Saturday 15 September 2001 00:01, Chris Devers wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, robin szemeti wrote:
> > > Curries: as a general rule, I find the price is inversely proportional
> > > to the quality. I can take you to some very 'posh' curry houses that
> > > serve dishes I wouldn't feed to the cat, and some scruffy, cheap
> > > places that serve meals you cannot match for quality.
> >
> > Same here. Best Indian food I've ever had was at a tiny place in Greenwich
> > Village -- ...not far from you know where :( -- where four or five of us
> > were able to have appetizers, entrees, drinks, & dessert for under $20 or
> > $25 bucks (x 1.5 or so for pounds? 30 or 40 pounds or so?). Amazing.
>
> whilst agreeing with what you say .. there was one teeny weeny little thing
> wrong with your currency conversion :) .. try dividing by 1.5 and you're
> about there. say 16 pounds. .. wow .. for all of you?
Whoops. Yeah, 16 pounds then, give or take.
Yes, it was really that cheap... :)
...and it was gooooood....
> I know food is cheaper in the US than over here .. but thats still amazing.
That was our impression too. It would generally be 1.5 or twice that at
the very lowest (a moderate night out might be $10 or $15 each, not
including drinks & dessert...)
> One thing that always gets me about the US .. in Europe you go to a
> restaurant at a ski resort and can *easily* pay 10 pounds ( 15 dollars
> :) for chips (fries :) and $something_savoury and a coke. and we are
> talking 'plastic trays and disposable cutlery' type restaurant. I
> paid 6.50 pounds ( 10 dollars :) for a large coke once at a French
> resort once[1]. Go to Canada or the US ski resorts and some places
> even seem to have *cheaper* than normal prices ... and they where
> cheap to start off with. amazing.
...and ski resport prices are usually exhorbitant by our standards... :)
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