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rodneyscatWooden shoes:
They are actually used a lot in The Netherlands! It's not just folklore. They are used as working shoes by farmers or in any profession where you walk outside a lot and run the risk of having something heavy (like a tool) fall on your feet. They're also often used for gardening or at campings. They're usually painted yellow, red or blue, with a simple ornamental drawing on them (just some curls and stripes).
They're watertight, warm, easy to slip on and off and comfortable to wear once you're used to them. There are some variations to make them more luxurious, like they take the top off, and replace it with a leather band stapled to the wood. And sometimes some rubber is nailed underside, when they're used on hard surfaces, because they're very loud otherwise.
'Washandje':
Something like a terry wash cloth, but folded double, with two sides stitched closed and turned. It sized so a hand can fit in easily. I always bring my own when going abroad, because I'm at a loss how to shower myself without one.
Raw herring:
The best time of year to eat those is late spring, early summer, when the herring is caught fresh. They're brought in, cleaned (belly sliced open, head cut off and in one movement all the entrails taken out, bones taken out) preferably in attendance of the customer and served with chopped, raw onions. You take the fish by the tail, drag it through the cut onions, lift it and eat it like that with your head tilted back. It's a very popular snack over here, often eaten outside at the fish stall, and it makes my mouth water just thinking about it. If you do it right you drink a beer afterward, because 'fish's got to swim' as we say over here.
Complicated discount systems:
Some short term saving systems; like when for 6 weeks you get a stamp for every 20 Euro you spend at the supermarket, and when you've got a booklet with 30 stamps in them you get a box with random stuff in it varying from soup to toiletpaper)
Some long term saving systems; like for certain brands of coffee or gasoline you get coupons, and when you've collected enough you can get a towel, or a toaster, depending on how many coupons you've collected.
Everybody hates these systems, and most people will participate anyway. I think the principal is known all around the world, but over here the amount things to participate in is ridiculous. You get stamps, coupons and such everywhere.
All kinds of sweet spreads and sprinklers as sandwich topping:
I'll have a look in my kitchen cup board: Nutella (of course), 2 kinds of jam, honey, chocolate sprinklers, chocolate flakes, apple-treacle, a mixed white and dark chocolate spread, sprinklers with sweet fruity flavours and some kind of powdery sugar with anise.
Some general things:
Most restaurants will allow dogs.
There's often a refreshment break during a movie.
Even relatively conservative Dutch people won't seize to be amazed at the homophobia and the lack of nudity and sex compared to the amount of explicit violence in American movies and series. It's considered 'typically American'.
Most restaurants take vegetarians into account, from McDonald's to fancy haute cuisine restaurants, and have special menu's, not just 'the regular, but without the meat' or 'green stuff and an omelet'.
Next entry will contain a rec. Promised.
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Date: 2005-01-13 10:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-13 11:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-13 05:34 pm (UTC)I've never wanted to think too much about whether the picked ones (with onions, yes!) are actually raw or cooked. I just eat them.
Yummy sandwiches
Date: 2005-01-13 10:49 am (UTC)Re: Yummy sandwiches
Date: 2005-01-13 11:12 am (UTC)Re: Yummy sandwiches
Date: 2005-01-13 01:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-13 10:51 am (UTC)I always wonder what they call 'Nutella' or whatever brand in English. Any idea? Do they even eat that?
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Date: 2005-01-13 11:11 am (UTC)In our theatre, we always hear customers talking about the movie at the bar of course, and now with 'Alexander' playing we hear a lot of 'why don't these two don't go have sex already?' and 'but it's all right to show all the gore of war...' usually concluded with 'typically American'.
We do hear complaining about an overload of sex/nudity in Dutch movies also, so that's the other side of the coin. Usually the complaint is that it's 'non-functional'
I think Nutella is known as the brand name (almost as if that's what the stuff is called) almost everywhere. I know they know it in Australia, and I think they also do in America and in most (if not everywhere) in Europe. Don't know about Asia & Africa.
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Date: 2005-01-13 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-01-13 11:32 am (UTC)My personal favorite topping is the powdery sugar/anise. Yummy!!
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Date: 2005-01-13 03:35 pm (UTC)dammit!.(no subject)
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Date: 2005-01-13 12:40 pm (UTC)Ruby
loves fish, raw, pickled, or cooked...
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Date: 2005-01-13 01:57 pm (UTC)*high fives*
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Date: 2005-01-13 12:41 pm (UTC)Oh God, if I hear: 'heeft u al een spaarkaart bij ons?' one more time, I'm going to commit a murder. ;) Though sometimes it's nice when you suddenly get a gift certificate in the mail when you don't expect it.
chocolate sprinklers, chocolate flakes, apple-treacle, a mixed white and dark chocolate spread, sprinklers with sweet fruity flavours and some kind of powdery sugar with anise.
Aha! Hagelslag, chocolade vlokken, appelstroop, duo penotti, vruchtenhagel en gestampte muisjes. Yum. :D You should try to explain to a foreign person what 'gestampte muisjes' means. :P
Speaking of recs, I have another H/D fic (http://glassesreflect.net/hd17/thehunger.html) for you. Not much plot, but just a lot of yummy, very graphic sex. You need to join the Glassesreflect yahoo group in order to read it, but believe me: it's more than worth the trouble!!
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Date: 2005-01-13 01:59 pm (UTC)You pass the test on all points! You're clearly Dutch ;)
I'll email you about the fic...
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Date: 2005-01-13 03:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-13 05:42 pm (UTC)I looked ridiculous(no subject)
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Date: 2005-01-13 04:26 pm (UTC)raw fish... *shudders* I would gag... I have tried sushi so I know (if only a little) what raw fish tastes like... and i nearly vomitted... yeah, not a pleasant experience.
ahh the wooden shoes... it is something I've always wondered about.
I don't understand why you wouldn't like getting vouchers? It seems like a good idea to me... or is all the stuff that you get really crappy? I mean... it sounds like a good idea, could you explain it a little more.
NUTELLA... oh how I love the stuff. My elder sister makes a Nutella cake, with HALF A KILOGRAM of nutella in it and some ridiculously huge amount of eggs... and NO FLOUR...yeah, we love our nutella.
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Date: 2005-01-13 05:52 pm (UTC)I have different booklets for different shops. Every once in a while I clean my wallet of all the stamps I got and put them in those booklets. Some of those have to be returned before a certain date (all different of course). Sometimes the thing you're supposed to get for free is out of stock and you have to go back later. Or you're too late and the booklet isn't worth anything anymore. Or the booklet is almost full, but it's almost over the final date and you're tempted to buy something you don't need, just to fill the booklet.
And I always forget about the coupons. Then I buy something and think too late 'oh shit, I had coupons for that shop!'
And now you've got to explain to me how this cake doesn't change into some kind of pudding without flour!!! It sounds verrrrrry rich to me O_O
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Date: 2005-01-14 03:28 am (UTC)This cake.. well it doesn't make any sense to me. It has A LOT of eggs, something like eight, and the half kilogram of nutella... but that's not the only chocolate, there's a whole lot more chocolate in it as well. I keep asking why it doesn't collapse... what's holding it up, and all she ever answers is "egg"... so that's all there is too it... it's chocolaty egg i guess... look, it doesn't make sense to me either, but it's VERY nice, and VERY rich... you only ever have the tinniest slice of it, because more than that would make you sick, it's just too much chocolate.
SO... if I ever find out the recipie, I'll post it in my journal, and let you know.
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Date: 2005-01-13 04:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-13 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-13 04:59 pm (UTC)The coupons and discount cards and other marketing schemes disguised as "savings" and "free gifts" are out of control over here, too (USA). My wallet is fat from all the plastic cards. The grocery store is the worst, with computer generated coupon strips a mile long handed to you with your receipt, and a complicated point system with discount redemption deadlines I can never keep in mind.
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Date: 2005-01-13 05:55 pm (UTC)Oh god, and there I was thinking this 'savings' and 'free stuff' systems getting out of hand was specifically Dutch... *shakes head*
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Date: 2005-01-14 12:25 am (UTC)Hee! And I thought it was quintessentially American.
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Date: 2005-01-13 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-14 07:25 am (UTC)*saves this for memories*
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