Have I mentioned how fit everyone in the Netherlands looks? It’s eerie. Pretty much everyone age 40 and up has the body of a 25-year-old American. You really have to get pretty close to someone to have any idea how old they are. I guess that’s one of the advantages of using bicycles as your primary mode of transportation. Also, their diet is a lot healthier, and their portions are tiny.
One of the funniest (and saddest) things I’ve seen here are the ads for Big Americans pizza. The ads show hearty, brawny men tearing into their pizzas, while the announcer intones, “Tired of ham and cheese all the time? Want something oily and greasy? Are you ready to eat like an American? Then Big Americans pizza is just what you’ve been craving. Mmmmmm, so good.”
Well okay, I just made that last part up. I don’t speak Dutch, so I really have no idea what the announcer is intoning, but I’m pretty sure it’s something along those lines. The really sad thing is that a Big Americans pizza, which is four times the size of any other pizza I’ve seen here in the Netherlands, is what would be called in America a “small” pizza. I’m not kidding.
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