• pyrflie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    First dates are Dutch. Hard stop.

    Anything else is an escort, and at least double means something with them.

    You bring your friend, fine, but you or they pay for their meal and yours.

    I’m here to see if we match, not serve as a stopgap in the apts food budget.

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      3 hours ago

      Going to eat as a first date is bad anyways. Should do something where you are a not forced to sit in front of each other for a fixed amount of time. Why not go for a walk in a park, take a coffee or other things that are more “open”.

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        2 hours ago

        Means you pay for your own meal. Not sure why it where but probably some racist thing, I assume

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          1 hour ago

          More of a cultural thing, I think. From what I’ve gathered from a friend that lives in the Netherlands the dutch are pretty serious about paying for their own meals and getting people to pay for theirs. I even remember seeing a sketch made by some dutch people where one gives a bite of their sandwich to a coworker or something and then they tell the coworker that they’re owed x amount for it.