Pizza Hut Cultural Awareness

After an afternoon rest, we decided to go for an easy dinner at Pizza Hut. We figure it is a cultural experience to see how Pizza Hut differs in the UK – that is our story and we are sticking to it. Frank will just have to sigh at our lack of cultural adventure :-). We then decided to come back to the B&B and pack for tomorrow morning.

To clarify our Pizza Hut experience, we must say that, although the pizza itself tasted much the same as the American version, our service was by far the best we've gotten at a Pizza Hut in a long while - at least way better than anything in Gainesville. So that was certainly a cultural experience! Another cultural difference - in the UK, when you ask for Coke and they only serve Pepsi products (i.e. Pizza Hut, and Caesar's Italian Restaurant on Friday night), they just bring a cola. They don't feel the need to say "Is Pepsi okay?" like they do at home.

We've just had our last breakfast here in York and we are on our way to Edinburgh!

-Cary

PS - Andy, I fixed the time stamp issue, I think. I switched it to GMT.

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andy hutton said…
i have just realized Emily is an English teacher. I really must check my blogs cos there are a lot of errors!
I am dyslexic anyway but not checking them is a bit unforgivable!
June 15, 2008 at 5:38 PM
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