A Belgian Kafka
Dec. 12th, 2004 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
franceslievensRead in De Standaard this weekend:
The Belgian government has decided to simplify the laws that surround the protected profession of "restaurateur" or restaurant keeper. To be able to open a restaurant you must have followed a cook's training. But if you sell light meals that training isn't necessary -- when you serve vol-au-vent with bread for instance. When you serve vol-au-vent with frites, on the other hand, the degree is needed again. Same with serving goulash with frites: if you use a paper plate you don't need to be a certified cook, but you need to be one if you serve them on a real plate.
And that's why in a real "frietkot" (that would be our equivalent of a fish-and-chips-shop) you'll never find tables or plates, but you can still eat goulash with frites.
The Belgian government has decided to simplify the laws that surround the protected profession of "restaurateur" or restaurant keeper. To be able to open a restaurant you must have followed a cook's training. But if you sell light meals that training isn't necessary -- when you serve vol-au-vent with bread for instance. When you serve vol-au-vent with frites, on the other hand, the degree is needed again. Same with serving goulash with frites: if you use a paper plate you don't need to be a certified cook, but you need to be one if you serve them on a real plate.
And that's why in a real "frietkot" (that would be our equivalent of a fish-and-chips-shop) you'll never find tables or plates, but you can still eat goulash with frites.
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Date: 2004-12-12 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-12 06:47 am (UTC)We'll see if they can actually make the laws easier. ;-)
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Date: 2004-12-12 07:02 am (UTC)too much reading about the Holocaust makes my brain hurt...*sigh*
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Date: 2004-12-12 07:44 am (UTC)I'm currently trying to decypher handwriten essays. My eyes! My eyes!
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Date: 2004-12-12 07:47 am (UTC)I just want work to be over...I'm tired and kinda hungry...not eaten all day...
*sigh*
I also have back ache.