On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:25:39 +0100, Lazarus Cooke
> wrote:

>In article >, pltrgyst
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:31:02 +0100, Lazarus Cooke
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >PS I've never eaten at the Fat Duck but I think that the notion that
>> >any British restaurant belongs in the first hundred (or thousand) in
>> >the world is as farcical as suggesting that any American one does.
>>
>> Well, since sewer workers seldom make enough money to dine at either the Fat
>> Duck or the French Laundry, your delusion is secure.
>>
>> -- Larry
>
>I totally agree, Larry. In France or Italy or the middle east working
>people can eat excellent food in excellent, cheap restaurants. Not in
>the Anglophone world, I'm afraid.
>
>Lazarus


Well, not quite. Australia is Anglophone (or so it is believed). Their
working people can eat excellent food in excellent, cheap restaurants.
I've seen it.