Croatia
Last year a group of us rented a boat (complete with skipper) and spent ten days sailing around in Croatia. My husband is Italian, but everyone else on the boat was from Spain.

The other 2 women on the boat (Spanish ladies) were a bit pushy about the food and the cooking, (I mean, what do Italian people know about cooking?) and took over the whole process.

They loaded up the two fridges on the boat with ten days worth of food for six people. Even at a favourable exchange, that wasn't cheap. They divided the food into meat and not meat. There was a lot, a LOT of meat, pork, chicken, all sorts of cuts and sausages, my husband and I couldn't have eaten our share of it in a month, much less ten days.

Naturally, on the second day, the ladies discover that the second 'fridge' is just a cooler. Instead of the meat being stored at 4 or 5, it was holding steady at about 12.

They didn't throw ANY of it away. They saved the chorizo and other sausagey things til last, and ate the pork loin first, for example, but these people sat there and ate all this meat. My husband and I did the best we could to avoid it, but they were very pushy and we didn't want to rock the boat. (Fnar.)

Miraculously, my man and I only suffered minor tummy trouble. The blasted Spaniards were fine.

Of the three of them, one is a doctor and the other is a senior nurse. To this day they saw nothing out of the ordinary in eating 8 day old warm chicken.

I'll not mention the flies. Or the yoghurt.
(frookah, Thu 21 Apr 2005, 13:34, Reply)