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Following an hilarious conversation with a rather straight laced woman with whom I used to work, I thought it would be rather inneresting to hear people's gastronomic horror stories from their travels.
Regarding my ex-colleague, well she's one half of one those squeaky clean couples that are obsessed with hygiene to an OCD level.
So they go to India (!). On their first day in Calcutta(!) they
spot a chai wallah and decide to have a cuppa.
Declining the paper cups into which he's about to decant their hot beverages, they delve into their backpacks and produce 2 plastic cups that they'd brought with them, giving each a good wipe with alcohol gel first.
They then hand the cups over to the wallah who then proceeds to strain the tea from the urn strapped to his back through the filthy vest that he was wearing into their 2 mugs.
ISTR they stayed in India for 24 hours before heading off to New Zealand .
Regarding my own experiences, mine's a rat taco but I can't vouch 100% for the provenance of said item of street food purchsed in Mexico City other than that it definitley wasn't beef, as claimed.
What's yours?
Regarding my ex-colleague, well she's one half of one those squeaky clean couples that are obsessed with hygiene to an OCD level.
So they go to India (!). On their first day in Calcutta(!) they
spot a chai wallah and decide to have a cuppa.
Declining the paper cups into which he's about to decant their hot beverages, they delve into their backpacks and produce 2 plastic cups that they'd brought with them, giving each a good wipe with alcohol gel first.
They then hand the cups over to the wallah who then proceeds to strain the tea from the urn strapped to his back through the filthy vest that he was wearing into their 2 mugs.
ISTR they stayed in India for 24 hours before heading off to New Zealand .
Regarding my own experiences, mine's a rat taco but I can't vouch 100% for the provenance of said item of street food purchsed in Mexico City other than that it definitley wasn't beef, as claimed.
What's yours?