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tert in seattle

writes:
>On Friday, August 2, 2019 at 3:53:20 PM UTC-4, Hank Rogers wrote:
>> Boron Elgar wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 11:38:53 -0600, graham > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2019-08-02 7:10 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm amazed at how many people have no cash and will pay for a $1.29
>> >>> coffee with plastic.
>> >>>
>> >>> I pass my bank a few times a week so not a big deal to stop and take the
>> >>> $400 limit from the ATM. Paying with debit card, Publix will give you
>> >>> $50, WalMart will give you $100.
>> >>>
>> >>> Many small businesses like it when you pay cash and save them bank fees.
>> >>> A I just had a clock repaired for $120 at a small shop.A The owner
>> >>> smiles when I peeled off some twentys.
>> >>
>> >> I used to be a cash-paying customer for nearly everything. Then I got a
>> >> cash-back Visa and now use it for most things. But for trivial purchases
>> >> and those from small businesses, I still use cash.
>> >> OK, so the cost of these cards is hidden in the price, but it's there
>> >> anyway. Then there are those legions of loyalty cards that just swell
>> >> the wallet - if you bother with them.
>> >
>> > There are costs incurred for store use of cash or checks, too, of
>> > course. They are not as easily calculated as a per sale/percentage
>> > fee, but they do exist.
>> >
>>
>> Yep, often if yoose pay with pure gold, there are hidden charges.
>>
>> There's the gold transaction fee
>> Then the gold assessment fee.
>> The gold usage fee.
>>
>> No matter what money you use ... there's a fee somewhere. Our
>> society is like a bunch of rich Ferengies.
>
>Since the Ferengi are fictional alien beings, I think you'll find that
>their society is modeled after ours.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

So I'm a big fan of this Shtisel program - coincidentally it seems half
the time people are eating - food is an important character in the show.
On the show this one lady called some guy a "frenk," a word I'm completely
unfamiliar with. I looked it up - turns out it's a derogatory term for
Sephardic Jews, related to "frank" meaning "European" as viewed by people
in the Middle East, originally applied to Crusaders. According to this
post the case is made that the name "Ferengi" derived from "frenk" or
its cognates (he also notes that "frengi" in Turkish means "syphilis"):

https://forward.com/articles/6013/french-dressing/