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L'autista
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Are they Pro-Bianconeri?
It's funny that I hadn't considered there being a New York-Milan thing. In the Bay Area, I've found a few interisti, romanisti, and even a partenopei, etc. But by and large you cannot go to a quasi-Italian restaurant or bar here and not run into a juventino. And typically they're old school juventini who are running the place.

Thus I've actually had bars that were recently closed who reopened and showed me their grappa collection, etc., just because of my Juve jacket when I arrived late. A Juve jacket is a great pass into the food and wine world around here. I've become good friends with a number of chefs and waiters because of it.
 

.zero

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It's funny that I hadn't considered there being a New York-Milan thing. In the Bay Area, I've found a few interisti, romanisti, and even a partenopei, etc. But by and large you cannot go to a quasi-Italian restaurant or bar here and not run into a juventino. And typically they're old school juventini who are running the place.

Thus I've actually had bars that were recently closed who reopened and showed me their grappa collection, etc., just because of my Juve jacket when I arrived late. A Juve jacket is a great pass into the food and wine world around here. I've become good friends with a number of chefs and waiters because of it.
Yea our waiter juventino and it got us a few glasses of wine and grappa on the house last night

We gotta start catch matches together as soon as this useless international break is over
 

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It's funny that I hadn't considered there being a New York-Milan thing. In the Bay Area, I've found a few interisti, romanisti, and even a partenopei, etc. But by and large you cannot go to a quasi-Italian restaurant or bar here and not run into a juventino. And typically they're old school juventini who are running the place.

Thus I've actually had bars that were recently closed who reopened and showed me their grappa collection, etc., just because of my Juve jacket when I arrived late. A Juve jacket is a great pass into the food and wine world around here. I've become good friends with a number of chefs and waiters because of it.
it's funny how i have had the same exact experience, i even had this old school owner of this italian joint come kiss me after he inquired why i was watching the inter game and i replied 'odio l'inter' :p
 

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Yea our waiter juventino and it got us a few glasses of wine and grappa on the house last night

We gotta start catch matches together as soon as this useless international break is over
Sweet! I've totally found that out here at least. Once I even had a head waiter at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Carmel, a Napoli fan if you could believe that, bring me back in the kitchen and introduce me to the Real Madrid fan chef -- just after Juve beat Real in the CL. :p Good stuff... he just wanted to rub it in.

Yeah, this week is crazy with an offsite tonight and an awards event I'm chairing on Thursday. But next week we can at least grab some lunch finally and catch matches thereafter the international break...
 

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it's funny how i have had the same exact experience, i even had this old school owner of this italian joint come kiss me after he inquired why i was watching the inter game and i replied 'odio l'inter' :p
Don't front like the dude in the intro


Sweet! I've totally found that out here at least. Once I even had a head waiter at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Carmel, a Napoli fan if you could believe that, bring me back in the kitchen and introduce me to the Real Madrid fan chef -- just after Juve beat Real in the CL. :p Good stuff... he just wanted to rub it in.

Yeah, this week is crazy with an offsite tonight and an awards event I'm chairing on Thursday. But next week we can at least grab some lunch finally and catch matches thereafter the international break...
I can't wait to see your dungeon... I mean media room
 
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It's funny that I hadn't considered there being a New York-Milan thing. In the Bay Area, I've found a few interisti, romanisti, and even a partenopei, etc. But by and large you cannot go to a quasi-Italian restaurant or bar here and not run into a juventino. And typically they're old school juventini who are running the place.

Thus I've actually had bars that were recently closed who reopened and showed me their grappa collection, etc., just because of my Juve jacket when I arrived late. A Juve jacket is a great pass into the food and wine world around here. I've become good friends with a number of chefs and waiters because of it.
IIRC, even the waiter at the pub me, you and Kyle went to was a Juventino, right? I can't remember the name of the place though. :sad:

EDIT: Pantarei... found it! :D
 

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IIRC, even the waiter at the pub me, you and Kyle went to was a Juventino, right? I can't remember the name of the place though. :sad:

EDIT: Pantarei... found it! :D
Yep. The waiter there? Could have been. When Asif and I went there last month for Juve-Milan, I believe we also had a juventino waiter... even if we were sitting next to a bunch of milanisti cafoni.

It's much the same with ice cream parlours in south Wales and Scotland.
What kind of organ grinder monkey jobs do Italiens take out in the UK???

Sounds hot.
 

Nzoric

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Lol what happend?
I ordered a croissant and a double espresso at starbucks 20min before check in. It took him 3-4 minutes to get my coffee right. Then my credit card wouldnt work so he expertly took it out of my hand to demonstrate that I was to blame for not inserting it right. It didnt work the first time, so he took it up to polish the chip on the card, and of course dropped it on the floor, kicking it into some crack under the counter. That took about 15 min and a panel of minimum wage workers to figure out. Almost missed my flight the idiot even gave me the wrong croissant. I threw it out when I saw it was chocolate...
 

Osman

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I ordered a croissant and a double espresso at starbucks 20min before check in. It took him 3-4 minutes to get my coffee right. Then my credit card wouldnt work so he expertly took it out of my hand to demonstrate that I was to blame for not inserting it right. It didnt work the first time, so he took it up to polish the chip on the card, and of course dropped it on the floor, kicking it into some crack under the counter. That took about 15 min and a panel of minimum wage workers to figure out. Almost missed my flight the idiot even gave me the wrong croissant. I threw it out when I saw it was chocolate...
:howler:


Thats insanely hilarious, how often does shit like that happen? I feel your pain though. We joke about the Starbucks we have in our Airport because its the place that hires all the tards rest of the establishments around here fire, you wait half your lunch break to get most simple of stuff. I interviewed some applicants today, I asked few of them extra telling questions when they said they worked at Starbucks nearby, even if their were hot chicas, you have to indirectly IQ test them :p
 

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No need to have competent staff at airport food and drink places.

You've got a captive market and you aren't overly reliant on repeat custom.

Can pretty much get away from anything with regards to shit service and extortionate pricing, I'd have thought.
 

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