So what's so special about this pizza? I'm a big pizza fan but I order Pizza Hut cheese lovers with stuffed crust (or occasionally Dominos cheese with stuffed crust) since I'm a vegetarian
I have, as I have a biennial gig in Austria (always detour to Munich - great watch town). I'd say Osterreich at its best is better than Oz, but Oz gets laurels for consistency - you can get top flight stuff - waaay better than anything I've had stateside - from a large number of pretty unassuming places.
The Aus coffee-culture isn't widely known, and people don't assume that Aussies would take coffee very seriously.
There's tiny coffee shops everywhere, and they're all fairly competitive with each-other. They've dialed in quality/service to a very high level. Starbucks opened a ton of stores here and failed. They closed the majority of their franchises because they couldn't compete.
Reference:
ALMOST 700 employees of the coffee chain Starbucks will lose their jobs on Sunday after the company yesterday announced the closure of 61 of its 84 Australian stores. ... The American company admitted it had struggled in Australia's "very sophisticated coffee culture" and said the announcement was unrelated to its closure of 600 stores in the US this month.
From the BBC, 2008.
Interesting. Never thought of Australia as a destination known for their good coffee! I lived in Germany for almost thirteen years, traveled all over Europe and always considered the Italian coffee-ways as the best of the best. To this day, the Lavazza brand remains my favorite coffee beans. I don't think Starbucks is a brand name known south of the Alps either....
Interesting. Never thought of Australia as a destination known for their good coffee! I lived in Germany for almost thirteen years, traveled all over Europe and always considered the Italian coffee-ways as the best of the best. To this day, the Lavazza brand remains my favorite coffee beans. I don't think Starbucks is a brand name known south of the Alps either....
Australia had a lot of migrants from Greece, Italy, Austria, Hungary, etc in the 40s/50s, bringing the central/southern European coffee culture.
Beautiful machines. How many cups did you drink today? Did you stay up all night?
Cars, motorbikes, astronomy, drums/music and I have just started collecting NASA shuttle mission patches. Me and my fiance have a rabbit we love very much.
Daily hack, bit boring.
My old tr7 v8, rubbish car but great fun.
My old mk2 Golf gti
Bike
Wally the bunny
Space patches
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Cars, motorbikes, astronomy, drums/music and I have just started collecting NASA shuttle mission patches. Me and my fiance have a rabbit we love very much.
Daily hack, bit boring.
My old tr7 v8, rubbish car but great fun.
My old mk2 Golf gti
Bike
Wally the bunny
Space patches
My Old man, fiance and me!
