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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
actually that is something that drives me crazy about going to a restaurant with a group, not really on a date. i don't eat very much, and since i'm a vegetarian there usually are not many choices for me. then you have some starving footballer type who orders an entrée and an expensive dish and dessert and a cheese plate. at the end when you get the check someone invariably says "shall we just split it evenly among us ?" and i end up paying three times more than i ate.  |
Possible confusion for our American friends here.
In Europe, an "entrée" is a starter, apetizer, whatever you want to call it. In the US, curiously, the word means the "main course". I've been on European coach tours with Americans where this has caused vast confusion
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