A short conversation between Donald Burns and another speaker contrasting dining habits in the United States and Europe. They emphasize that Americans tend to eat out for the food/substance, while Europeans treat dining as a long, social experience (late dinners, multi-hour meals).
The biggest difference, I would say, between the United States and Europe is that United States, we go out to eat for substance, for food, or in Europe, you go out to dine as an experience. It's a social event.
Yeah. You're gonna have your three hour meal, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Italy, like, you start eating it 9 o' clock at night.
And 9 o' clock actually in Europe is like early. It's like early birds for like United States. Like, I remember like, because I go to Spain and spe and I remember like, hey, we're going to dinner. Okay. What time you want to meet you? 10 o'. Clock. I'm like, what? 10 o' clock at night? Oh, yeah, yeah. That's like, that's, that's when we start, like. What do you mean we start and then you go to like 1 or 2 in the morning.
Yeah, yeah. Which more people here would think about really enjoying that evening out. You know, we've gone into such that culture, you know, just grab and go and have to go do something. Yeah, we'll just slow down a little bit and enjoy it. It makes me think so they have it figured out better than we do.
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