On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:44:00 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Cindy Hamilton wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On Monday, August 21, 2017 at 6:29:49 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> > The US and Europe are two different cultures. Clearly, McDonalds
>> > plays a much larger role in US culture than it does in European
>> > culture. That makes sense because McDonalds is American. A
>> > European on a small, fixed income will know a nicer place to have
>> > that indulgence coffee
>>
>> As we have already discussed ad nauseam, there might not be a nicer
>> place available to that person on a fixed income. There are plenty
>> of dried-up little towns where the only restaurants are big chains
>> out by the interstate highway.
>>
>> Not even dried up little town. Within walking distance of my house,
>> there is a restaurant where I doubt they'd appreciate someone sitting
>> over a cup of coffee for two hours. And there's a McDonald's.
>> (Plus four gas stations--since it's right at a exit from a major
>> highway--and a liquor store.) If I get in the car, I can go farther
>> (past another McDonald's) and pay three or four times as much for
>> coffee at Starbuck's. Downtown, I'd have to pay for parking and
>> still pay Starbuck's prices.
>>
>> As for having coffee at home, we're talking about a small indulgence,
>> getting out of the house, and meeting with friends. If my husband
>> said "I'm having the guys over for coffee every Friday," it would get
>> real old, real fast.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
>Exactly Cindy. It's the mere act of getting OUT for a bit.
>
>I suspect Bruce may be too young to grasp the concepts of this thread.

God, you're silly.