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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I agree with Hitch -- this wins the internet!! I used to do American Revolutionary War re-enactment. We didn't do ring mail, but as a costumer, I lusted after that too, just Because. I myself did more corsets than ring mail, but I collected tab-style pop rings for a long while, for some chain mail, before giving the collection away. I'm dying to know HOW he happened to be wearing it. Did he expect trouble?? Or was it literally just because it was brand new and had to be enjoyed?? (I can understand that.)
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IIRC, brand new, and getting accustomed to wearing it. It's not like he
expected to be attacked by an employee with a cleaver after he gave the restaurant a fail...
I had dinner some time back at a restaurant in Brooklyn in a heavily Russian section. It had apparently been better in earlier days. When we ate there, it took about half an hour for a waiter to appear, he spoke
no English, and we had to point at stuff on the menu so he could read the Cyrillic text and understand what we wanted. The food took a long time to come out, and was at best mediocre. I had to go looking in the back to get someone to accept payment for the meal, and looked into the kitchen and saw a guy smoking like a chimney while preparing food. And there were issues in processing the credit card.
There was a table full of patrons elsewhere who were part of the local Russian community, but
they were hitting the vodka hard and quite happy, thanks.
My comment after the fact elsewhere was "If you are from another country and set up in the restaurant trade here, you
do want to properly prepare and serve your native cuisine, but you probably
don't want to properly reproduce the
service levels back home..."
I was there again more recently, but it was no longer the Russian place, and had become an aspiring high end steak house. (I wasn't impressed.) I assumed the NYC health inspector had visited the Russian place, taken one look, and said "You're closed!"
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Dennis