[US-Euro culinary relations:] ‘We will never eat like that in this house.’”
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands ... “When I was about 11 years old, we had an American boy stay with us for a week, an exchange student,” she [Ellen Verkoelen, a City Council member and Rotterdam leader of the 50Plus Party, which works on behalf of pensioners] recalled. “And my mother told him, just make your own sandwich like you do in America. Instead of putting one sausage on his bread, he put on five. My mother was too polite to say anything to him, but to me she said in Dutch, ‘We will never eat like that in this house.’”
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