ellauri007.html on line 1368: The tanuki, or "raccoon-dog," is a staple of Japanese folkore. They're known as tricksters, shape-shifters...and as a symbol of good luck. You can find statues of them outside of restaurants throughout Japan. They're considered lucky because their enormous scrotums (which are called "kintama" or "golden balls," in Japanese) are the source of their supernatural powers. Too bad Mario didn't get a nice super-sized sack when he suited up in his "tanooki suit" (as it was spelled for the English language release of the game.)
ellauri066.html on line 711: Gatherings of more than 50 were banned but Swedish schools for under-16s, restaurants, bars, gyms and hairdressers all stayed open. Tegnell said shutting borders was “ridiculous” and that there is “very little evidence” masks are effective.
ellauri066.html on line 744: Staff do not even have to wear visors in bars or restaurants
ellauri066.html on line 746: Staff do not even have to wear visors in bars or restaurants
ellauri066.html on line 902: On March 16th, scientists at Imperial College London published a paper, based on an epidemiological model, predicting that, unless some form of lockdown was imposed, more than five hundred thousand Brits would die from preventable COVID-19 infections. A week later, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced that his government would be closing schools, bars, and restaurants, falling in step with the rest of Europe. “It was slightly frustrating,” Tegnell told me, when I spoke to him, in August. “We were really hoping we could take us through this crisis together.”
ellauri160.html on line 797: Every two weeks, Stammtisch, the Meet-Up group for German speakers, gets together in various bars and restaurants all over the greater Philadelphia area. At their first meeting after New Year’s, the big topic was Lauri Wylie’s Dinner for One, the short TV adaptation of his quintessential British one-act comedy with a huge international cult following—except Britain and the US.
ellauri324.html on line 606: Tipping: In restaurants in the US there’s a general expectation to tip generously.
ellauri324.html on line 640: worn-down McDonald’s. In Europe McDonald’s restaurants
ellauri425.html on line 384: From 1990 to 2022, the American fast food chain McDonald´s operated and franchised McDonald´s restaurants in Russia.
ellauri425.html on line 388: Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, McDonald´s temporarily suspended all operations in the country on 8 March. In May, the company announced that it would sell all of its restaurants in Russia, which were rebranded as Vkusno i tochka.
ellauri425.html on line 418: "For Soviet rubles only," announced a brass sign nearby, a not-so-subtle dig at the growing number of restaurants and shops that cater only to Westerners or the handful of privileged Soviet citizens with freely convertible foreign currencies.
ellauri425.html on line 425: "They´ll use these disposable plates and cups for one and a half months. Then they´ll go back to dirty saucers and glasses, like we have in our restaurants. It will all go downhill. We don´t know how to run a restaurant like this," said Andrei Grushin, an engineer.
ellauri425.html on line 458: Sam Yahel, from McDonald’s in Atlanta, who helped train the 630 Soviet workers, said the Soviet trainees were at a disadvantage because in most other parts of the world, new workers had at least eaten at one of the restaurants.
ellauri425.html on line 468: The McDonald’s prices are high compared to the state restaurants, where a large meal seldom costs more than a ruble. The Big Mac costs 3.75 rubles, or about $5 at the official exchange rate, and dinner out for the family can come to two days’ wages for the average Soviet worker.
ellauri425.html on line 475: The joint venture agreement between McDonald’s of Canada and the Moscow City Council calls for 20 restaurants, though there is no timetable or even a definite plan for when or where the second McDonald’s will open.
ellauri425.html on line 480: McDonald’s expects to open nearly 10,000 restaurants over the next four years, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, a pace of growth that would be unprecedented even for the world´s largest burger chain.
ellauri437.html on line 176: The troops were taking back control of the jail from a powerful gang that had turned it into something of a resort, complete with zoo, restaurants, nightclub, betting shop and swimming pool. But the gang's boss, Hector Guerrero Flores, escaped.
xxx/ellauri056.html on line 613: Die Traditionsrestaurants der Straße waren bekannte regelmäßige Treffs für Künstler, Schriftsteller und andere Persönlichkeiten wie: Bertolt Brecht, Wassily Kandinsky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Franz Josef Strauß im Schelling-Salon sowie Thomas Mann, Frank Wedekind, Joachim Ringelnatz, Stefan George, Franz Marc, Paul Klee und Lenin im Café Altschwabing, und Seija mit Piki in der Studentenstadt.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 188: Curiously, across my country (which? Is the turd talking about America? Most likely.) Mexican restaurants, often owned and run by Mexicans, are festooned with sombreros – if perhaps not for long. At the UK’s University of East Anglia, the student union has banned a Mexican restaurant from giving out sombreros, deemed once more an act of “cultural appropriation” that was also racist.
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