 Expensive coffee
"Gerald Oliver Swift" <goswift@m> kirjoitti
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> "Markku Grönroos" <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote in message
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>> Muscovites drink the most expensive coffee in the world - in average a
>> cup of coffee costs seven euros in cafe. In Paris similar shot costs
>> around 4,5 euros and in New York some 2,5 euros. Easy to believe. When I
>> was first time at Sheremetyevo some eight years ago, a cup of coffee cost
>> 9 US dollars (no, roubles didn't buy coffee there. A standard procedure
>> in "communism": your money is good as long as it is minted and printed in
>> a "CAPITALIST country). I declined the coffee. I took the stairs down to
>> a tax free shop instead and bought half a litre can of beer by one dollar
>> instead.
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> Markku, eight years ago Russia wasn't communist - but I take your point.
> Beer is cheap in Russia - it's even cheaper in Vietnam.
> Gerry
I didn't say it was. However, many practices descended from the communist
era. Actually this is the case today in Russia. In many respect Russia
resembles more a communist country than a non-communist one. You don't have
to go to Vietnam to drink cheap beer. For instance in Spain a can of beer
typically costs less than 30 cents in a super marcado.
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