Thread: The Belgian 2.5 Euro coin. too funny not to share

Originally Posted by WW243

Kind of late to this thread but appreciated the humor and the information. I discovered a long time ago, in a general way, how limited we Americans are regarding the culture and languages of Europe. I myself am guilty. I learned this by meeting a lot of Europeans and young people from other countries when I was involved in youth hostels in Hawaii. The first shock was that most of them (non English speaking) spoke English....I could go on but........so I had to inventory my pathetic knowledge of Belgium. Here it is in a few words: mussels, fries, beer, cobbles, Eddy Merckx, now Bruno.

Oh, that's very easily rectified. Just think of Belgium the way a teapartier thinks of Washington DC and you could pass for an average Eurupean

Marquis de Lafayette

Vive le Français

One of the reasons that Belgian cuisine and brewing surpasses anything in western Europe is that for more than a thousand years we had to cater to invaders from all over europe, as well as for the people who wanted to fight their wars in a convenient separate place so that they didn't create a mess in their own countries