Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> this reminds me of the time my ex and i were in russia; his
> boss threw a dinner at a tiny place. i ordered salad, which is
> almost unheard of in russia. anyway, it came  with a nice scoop
> of fish eggs on it.  and suddenly, I felt like the kids in the
> mikey ad... ;-) i turned to my ex and said, oh, look honey,
> doesn't that look good?  Of course tim didn't know what it was,
> and i got him to eat a spoonful of it.  he said it was ok.  but
> he wanted to know what it was... his boss told him, tim, it's
> caviar...  my ex looked like he was going to be sick...  one of
> my not so nice moments, i know.
>
> Russia, and moscow in particular, had a mcdonalds where in the
> middle of freezing winter weather, people would stand in line
> for two hours to get a burger and fries - that would cost about
> ten bucks.  Furthermore, you could phone them from the hotel,
> and in about 45 minutes somebody would deliver it to your
> room! we ended up doing this for our first anniversary. because
> tim slept right thru the hotel's dinner time.  it cost about
> 45.00 bucks for 4 burgers, two cokes, and 3 fries.
>
>

That "nice scoop of fish eggs" was probably Baluga Caviar, would
cost you considerably more than the $45 McD's in the west!!!

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Deri James