EATING AND DRINKING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 10

EATING AND DRINKING.

AMERICAN" PECULIARITIES.

In humorous fashion, the United, States Consul, Mr. Boyle, in addressing the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to-day, referred to some points of difference between New Zealanders and Americans. "For instance," he said, "you do not know what it means to consume immense quantities of doublecrusted inch-thick pies, or open face pies with "goo" baked all over the top of them. Neither do you know what $ is to drink your, water, your soft drinks, and perhaps even some' drinks a little harder, at a temperature so cold that it will freeze your palate* and you see no in consuming immense quantities of ice cream in the dead of winter. I will even wager that if you were perched cm a stool at a railroad lunch counter in the United States and heard someone order coffee and "sinkers" that you would not really know what they were going to get. "No, I am not going to enlighten you, for some day when you visit the United States your curiosity might tempt you to order coffee and "sinkers" also, and although I can assure you that the coffee would at least be passable, I very much fear that your digestive powers could not take care of the "sinkers," and that your demise would be laid at my door,, for one needs, must be to the manner born to digest some of our American foods."