• samus12345@lemm.ee
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        9 days ago

        I’m mostly basing it on my experience at restaurants in the 90s. If you asked for water, you got mineral water.

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          9 days ago

          You gotta ask for tap water, if you want tap water. Otherwise, they’ll bring you bottled water, which sells for more.

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            9 days ago

            Yeah, I learned that quickly, but even then, you would get room temperature water with no ice. Was quite a culture shock!

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          8 days ago

          That’s more of a greed issue, though. Though bottled water is very popular in Germany, many people don’t bother with it especially if they live in multi-family homes (very unfun to carry bottled water up 3 flights of stairs) and definitely if they don’t have a car.