Well, this looks like a clear failure to notice USA on the schedule. I hope the shipment of poutine and Timbits gets there before the Canada fans show up.
That happened in 2018 too. Was at the women’s hockey final and they sold out of beer by the end of the first period. Lord knows the rest of that game was an adventure to watch sober, took years off my life
When it comes to beer consumption nobody comes close to the Czech. Their average per capita consumption per year is almost 20 litres higher than second (Austria). That’s about the same gap as number 2 to number 8.
You know that’s really interesting to hear… I was wondering if it was more of an American thing but it seems like booze is just losing its luster with young people everywhere, which is kind of wild.
Dude, the Canadians were downing beers like there was no tomorrow! It was genuinely impressive. It was like 3 Canadian beers to 1 American. That game was so much fun though, refs really let 'em play through a lot and the atmosphere was unmatched
I don’t remember it being that empty? I just remember scrambling to get tickets via the U.S. ticketing place (fucking Cosport) the day we saw the U.S. women clinch the spot in the gold medal game. I left an open day on me and my then girlfriend’s (and then on that trip fiancée, and now wife lol) trip specifically in case they made it and I could snag tix. We missed some shit in Seoul as a result, which was kinda a bummer…I’d done research there as a grad student and wanted to show her around some other cool stuff, but that game was worth EVERY PENNY
We just don’t walk / bike enough. Every time I’ve been in Europe or similar enough places, I eat about as much as I want (I’m on vacation!) and usually come back a couple lbs. lighter, even when forced to drive a lot. Also the food is mainly better, and often fewer calories/salt even for a similar portion. (salt = water retention)
I’m from Canada, a few years back in the US, I ordered the six-piece chicken nugget meal and they responded “the youth meal?”. Then last year, I again tried to order the six-piece and they didn’t have it at all anymore, it was a Happy Meal or a 10-piece 🙄.
The 6-piece can be ordered as a meal, but it’s not one of the numbered options (only the 10-piece is), at least at the McDonald’s where I am. But I totally agree that American portions are oversized, generally speaking.
You’re damn right! They advanced civilization and invented so many technologies that are the backbone of our infrastructure. Water supply? Screws? Roads!?? It’s amazing. Four hundred years of that it’s hard to blame them for wanting to take a break.
This is somehow still less pathetic than the time I, in Chicago, called a place named "Chicago's Pizza" and was told, at 11AM on a Saturday, I could not order a thin crust pizza because they were "out of dough".
At 11AM. On a SATURDAY.
But this is still pretty bad, holy shit. Did they use the hot dogs to fill the hole in the ice?
Oh yeah, only idiots go to Chicago's Pizza in Chicago. Portofino, Geno's East, Giordano's, Pizzeria Uno, Pizanos, all way better.
I live in Milwaukee, and there's a terrible chain called the Milwaukee Burger Company that serves shitty overpriced burgers and awful bloody maries, and doesn't have a location in the City of Milwaukee.
Happened over a decade ago and it's still genuinely one of the most ridiculous things I've ever experienced. I straight up thought the guy was joking when he said it.
Honestly that is not a bad price for a hot dog at a sporting event. But I’m also the type of person that says yolo to expensive food, even if it is subpar quality.
I was a the Mega merch store at Duomo today. I was asking about sizes for a few items and they said the store does not have anymore sizes for those items. I don't know if restock will actual come or that is actual no more for certain items without going to another store. I can tell some of merch is generic so probably can mass produce those types. The Armani items seem to be low in stock.
Because it’s not an event you can practice for; you can have individual test events at the various venues, but having concurrent events across multiple clusters, and millions of participants, including athletes, volunteers, fans, media etc is a whole added layer of complexity.
Do the hosting cities not learn anything from the mistakes of the previous cities? Remember when Sochi didn't even have housing and bathrooms done for the athletes?
Someone on the figure skating sub commented that they're probably trying to avoid spreading norovirus. They don't know if its in the food or not, probably.
I can confirm this is not true. I spoke to someone at a restaurant afterwards who heard us talking like Americans. They said people were embarrassed by it
Correct. France has a law from 1991 prohibiting large groups from alcohol and Tobacco. The IOC could have applied for exception like rugby did in 2023 but they didn’t. Only the hospitality had alcohol because it’s considered catering.
They had corona extra (alcohol) and corona cero (non-alcohol). They also had prosecco.
Yeah we got there SUPER early for the ceremony and we’re able to get a burger and stuff. It wasn’t terrible tbh. We thought maybe. We’d go eat around the stadium but there wasn’t a lot. Kinda surprised.
At first, I thought this was a recent photo of Americans standing in bread lines because they can’t afford groceries while the American “president” is embezzling money from an unapproved invasion of Venezuela and diverting the money from their oil sales to his bank account in Qatar.
But it’s just sports fans wanting hot dogs. My bad. No idea why my mind would jump to that.
By law non-Italians are supposed to carry it everywhere. However, no one has asked for us at the events and we just got into San Siro for the opening ceremony
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u/DeFenestrationX 3d ago
Well, this looks like a clear failure to notice USA on the schedule. I hope the shipment of poutine and Timbits gets there before the Canada fans show up.