UNIT
5 - LEKCJA 5
EATING
OUT
Cultural Notes
Whether
going
to the restaurant, shopping,
getting
a
hotel
room,
or
getting
good
service anywhere, the ideal
solution
would
be to
walk
in
as
a
foreigner
(as
long
as
you
don't
have a
Russian
accent).
And
then
it
would
be nice
to
be able
to
turn
into
a native
when
it
is
time to pay,
in
order
to
avoid
having
your
bill
padded
with
your
shoe size, waist measurement,
and
Social Security
num
ber.
In Po/ish restaurants, you
normally
will
not
be served
bread
and
butter
if
your
main course includes rice, pasta,
or
potatoes, unless
you
ask
for
it. Usually salad has
to
be
ordered
separately;
you'lI
have a choice
of
vinaigrette
ar
the
more
traditional
sour-cream dressing.
If
you
want
your
steak rare,
order
it
po angielsku (lit., Eng/ish
style).
In most restaurants you sit wherever
you
want,
if
there
is
a place. Quite
often
a
forbidding
zarezerwowany (reserved) sign
will
mysterious/y disappear in exchange
for
a
tipo
Leaving
the
restaurant in Poland
may
be
as
difficu/t
as
getting
in.
Getting
your
check
may
take forever. However,
just
being a
foreigner
may
speed
up
your
getting
your
check.
If
you
are
planning
to
enjoy
your
lunch
with
a
beer
or
a glass
of
wine,
remember
that
no
alcoho/ic beverage can be served, purchased,
or
consumed
in
pub/ic
before
1:
00
p.m.
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