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To: Fiddlstix
I can't even imagine a Mexican Restaurant in Holland of all places.

Neither can I but there ARE Mexicans there or at least there WERE!

Some years ago a friend and I were traveling back to Saudia Arabia and got stuck in Amsterdam overnight, terrible shamal (sandstorm) at Daharan or something like that. Anyway the airline put us up in the Hotel Pulitzer right in the middle of the canal district. We got our rooms and decided to go out for a drink since it was still early in the evening. We walked around for a few minutes doing a little window shopping ( what else does one do in the canal district?) and eventually walked into one of those street corner bars (there is one on EVERY corner in the canal district). We ordered our drinks and, since we were the only two customers in the place at the time, struck up a conversation with the bartender who turned out to be a Texican who had landed in Amsterdam 25 years before and never left.

We stayed there into the wee hours of the morning and never paid for another drink as our new friend was having a grand time blathering back and forth with us in Tex-Mex!

528 posted on 10/15/2005 7:12:25 PM PDT by Bigun (IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
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To: Bigun
Well I'll be danged.......
Who'da thunk it....
Small world ain't it.....
lol
532 posted on 10/15/2005 7:24:17 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Bigun; Fiddlstix
The flip side is that for some years the chief cook in the Macaroni's Grill in Stafford, Texas had worked in a bar I hung out at in Bergan an See, Holland. He knew all my oilfield trash friends and told me some stories that won me some dinners on bets and as bribes to keep my mouth shut.
537 posted on 10/15/2005 7:36:00 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (A right wing Christian, not part of the Christian Right)
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