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The Dancing Devils of Yare

Apparently besides cooking Arepas, some on Colommbia and Brazil do these plays (wether it may lie on a tourist venzuelan family or a a family of the same kind that moved is until now undetermined) and dance on the rain for an hour while dressed like cartoon monsters on July
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zeogold: http://c0188414.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/projects/9884/1311343141461-01bc46ded7459f6b139dbf6afe09ad60/752xAUTO.jpg

Seriously though, I wasn't aware this was even a thing. What countries does this occur in?
America obviously has the occasional German food and drink available, particularly during Oktoberfest, but nothing big. I mean, we have about a hundred other different cultures here as well.
Examples:
Mallorca, Italy, Spain, Turkey and a looot of other places. You could use google maps AFAIK to have a look onto the streets, sometimes it looks more like being in Germany then being a foreign country.

And I am not just talking about like exporting a fest like Oktoberfest, but rather that a lot of Germans expect it to be this way :(

Having different cultures because of people living there, is one thing, but having it because you are a tourist?

And tsingtao is a quite good Chinese beer ;)

PS: I try to find a working link and hope I can post it

EDIT
Even better:

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurants-g187462-c21-Majorca_Balearic_Islands.html
https://www.pabisa.com/blog/deutsche-supermarkte-mallorca not sure if it will display in English for you ;)

EDIT:

Or what about
http://www.mallorcazeitung.es/ A german newspaper in Mallorca
Post edited September 20, 2016 by Goodaltgamer
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Telika: Are you meaning bouillabaisse (a pretty cool rust-coloured fish soup) ? It's a french speciality, but more linked to southern france than to lyon or lille, i think.
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Goodaltgamer: As I said, don't remember the name ;)

But one thing I know for sure: Their was no Rouille with it, the rest sounds right and looks familiar though. But it was also served in a far bigger bowl. Bouillabaisse AFAIK is only served in small soup bowls. But this one was a quite big bowl, like 1/2 or more liter bowl.
Was it based on Cream ? Tomato ? Fish ?
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Potzato: Was it based on Cream ? Tomato ? Fish ?
As mentioned in

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/country_customs/post16

Fish....
My country is a retarded theme park.
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Goodaltgamer: Having different cultures because of people living there, is one thing, but having it because you are a tourist?
The tourist industry is a powerful force.
Post edited September 20, 2016 by zeogold
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Hickory: Worm Charming
That's it, you win! :)
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timppu: 1. The front doors of our homes open outwards, not inwards.
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zeogold: Cool! You can hit door-to-door salesmen!
At least the stupid ones that stay too close to the door!

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zeogold: I get the feeling the whole drop-in-outta-nowhere thing is mostly an American custom.
Heck, a lot of us don't even like it.
I've seen it also in e.g. Thailand. In cities people may even have their apartment door wide open all the time, and a neighbour just drops by to chit-chat.

About America, is it possibly also a regional thing? Somehow I've gotten a feeling that in bigger cities people don't necessarily know their neighbours all that well. Maybe it is all those movies and TV series where Seinfeld or Frasier is surprised someone lives in the same floor as him, or something. Well, ok. Kramer always crashes into Seinfeld's apartment and eats from his refrigerator like it was nothing...
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zeogold: Cool! You can hit door-to-door salesmen!
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timppu: At least the stupid ones that stay too close to the door!
...who said anything about hitting them with the door?
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timppu: I've seen it also in e.g. Thailand. In cities people may even have their apartment door wide open all the time, and a neighbour just drops by to chit-chat.
Having your door wide open? That's even wilder. You'd get robbed here like that.
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timppu: About America, is it possibly also a regional thing? Somehow I've gotten a feeling that in bigger cities people don't necessarily know their neighbours all that well. Maybe it is all those movies and TV series where Seinfeld or Frasier is surprised someone lives in the same floor as him, or something. Well, ok. Kramer always crashes into Seinfeld's apartment and eats from his refrigerator like it was nothing...
It does somewhat have to do with region, but not always with big cities. I mean, there's still the infamous "Southern hospitality" thing in the South where there are still people who don't even lock their doors. Even with that, though, we're still a notably "nicer" country than a lot of European ones, as it's common here for people to casually chat it up with strangers, which I've heard is a no-no in a lot of European places.
It may have something to do with size as well. We apparently used to be a friendlier/more trusting society back a few decades ago, as shown by the tales of people not locking their doors, knowing their neighbors, and the TV tropes of people leaving their car keys in the sun visor.
Post edited September 20, 2016 by zeogold
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Goodaltgamer: Back to the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

if you are in Sweden, give it a try ;)
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Themken: I have been to special parties where this rotten fish is served with boiled potatoes and thin bread and served with plenty of beer and strong spirits to help it down.
Surströmming?
We in Bavaria have some feud going on with northern Germans, we call them: "Preiss`n".
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Potzato: Was it based on Cream ? Tomato ? Fish ?
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Goodaltgamer: As mentioned in

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/country_customs/post16

Fish....
Ooops, I had to read it thrice before seeing it. Sorry.
So yes, it has to be a Bouillabaisse, which can be found in Lyon. But it really is not a Northern Dish, so not a Lille specialty.
Post edited September 20, 2016 by Potzato
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xalegra: In weddings we have something called "selling a fake bride", small show performed by parents, and family of bride to the groom and rest of wedding attendees. This custom is very alive.
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zeogold: What does this involve?
In most of cases brother of groom or his best men "bargain" for bride with her brother or father. It is actually all for show.

Family of bride always demands higher price than the groom's representative offers. When "deal" is made, they try to give other daughter, some older woman from neighborhood, sometimes even adolescent or man in "disguise" under bridal veil. Groom and rest of wedding guests see through deception, but there can be several false brides, before her family gives her up to her beloved one.

Also false brides are usually dressed in peculiar way to provoke laughter and mocking on her behalf. It can be very funny.

In some versions of this tradition coins are put in apple given to the bride's family and coins (sometimes old ducats of numismatic and ornamental value) are added into the apple until real bride comes out, but sometimes even that is not enough for show to end. Father of the bride can put apple on a branch of tree, and demand from his future son in law to shut it down with a gun before he gives permission for wedding to continue. There are probably many more variations of this custom.
Post edited September 20, 2016 by xalegra
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zeogold: ....these just SOUND aggressively British.
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/855/169/cc6.png Although we tend to associate that with the Canadians, I think that originated more here from the Minnesotan "Yah hon, don'tcha know" sort of accent.
That makes me think of the movie Fargo. :) I met someone at a conference once who had the same accent and after a few hours I asked him "Strange question out of the blue but.. are you from Fargo?" to which he replied "yes". LOL That accent seems to be fairly tightly kept right around that one area it would seem. :)
Post edited September 20, 2016 by skeletonbow
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skeletonbow: after a few hours I asked him "Strange question out of the blue but.. are you from Fargo?" to which he replied "yes".
He was obviously lying to you. If he was really from Fargo, he wouldn't have said "yes", he'd have said "you betcha".
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zeogold: He was obviously lying to you. If he was really from Fargo, he wouldn't have said "yes", he'd have said "you betcha".
LOL, naw he was and he said that he gets asked that question all the time by people and doesn't mind it. :)