Monday, November 17, 2008

Oddities :)

In Peru, you cannot throw your toilet paper in the toilet. You put it in the trash can. And you have to bring your own toilet paper to many of the public bathrooms (there are few by the way, so use it before you go!)

You can buy liquor most anywhere and they don´t ever card any one. They don´t chill their white wine.

You can buy beer by the meter. It´s a three foot tall tube with a spigot at the bottom.

It is considered sexy to wear super tight jeans and let your belly hang out... and the liturature says American girls dress too "loose".

They eat jam and hard boiled eggs and cheese all at once on their bread for breakfast. But over easy eggs are lunch fare.

There´s white rice as often as in Hawaii

They drink warm Inca Kola, which tastes like bubble gum flavored flouride

There are more samples at PlazaVea (their Walmart) than at Costco

Drivers honk, all the time

Taxis are flat rate, quoted before you leave

All waiters have to be good looking ;) (kinda like Le Bistro, right Tyler)

I´ll add more as I think of them...

5 comments:

lil sista said...

I LOVE INCA KOLA! We had it all over in DC at all the grocery stores in the ethnic section. It is like a mix between a bananaish, vanillaish, and bubblegumish flavors. yum! (but you already know I am strange and will try anything!) Cant wait to hear more!!! ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES???? can you post them somewhere online????

Ariel Padon said...

oh yeah. . . Chef Nick got fired! Zach, Roy and Nagy are now are head chefs!!!!

Ariel Padon said...

meant to say are now our head chefs**

Anonymous said...

I love you Margs!...I am glad you are having such a wonderful, cultural experience. I am proud of you and I wish I could be down there with you.

hezzymae said...

Isn't it amazing how each culture is made of the same stuff. Food, shelter, smiles, arms and legs and yet each place and customs can be so different? It took a week for European differences to dawn on me, I can't imagine how many cultural differneces you are experiencing. I am so proud of you! Nicely done with the stumble through American History- don't feel bad, of 100,000 Americans interviewed recently in civic survey, 74% FAILED. So sad, unfortunately I would probably be in that classification as well. Love the vivid picture you are painting. Thank you for being one of the few willing to take the path less traveled. You are an angel!LOVE AND MISS YOU!!! Can't wait for the next installment!