Chocolate sprinkles tell culture differences

Travel to the Netherlands and during your first breakfast or snack, you may notice a strange choice of food among the locals.  Chocolate sprinkles!  Like me, many Americans know sprinkles as those little sugary pieces added to the top of ice cream sundaes.  Never for breakfast.  For me, sprinkles make ice cream look more entertaining IMO, but I never added them for the taste of chocolate. Try chocolate sprinkles made in the Netherlands, and you'll notice that they actually taste like chocolate.  Big taste difference!  And the locals use them on top of buttered bread.  Sound strange?  Well, offer a Dutchman or woman some ice cream with these chocolates sprinkled on top.  Watch their reaction.  Do you see the same surprised face that you had? The beauty of traveling.
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What you may have been taught or be accustomed to is not always how things work.  Discover differences.  Challenge your prejudgments and see if they stand correct after you ventured to the "unknown".  People and medias (TVs, newspapers, journals, blogs) engrave thoughts in our heads whether we want it or not.  Think about it.  I say Amsterdam, most of my American counterparts ask me about pot and hookers.  I still dislike FoxNews for doing such a piece: Point being... Do the unthinkable.  Explore!  You'll be shocked, you'll be amused, and you might find a new way how to eat chocolate sprinkles.  That's a conversation worth sharing 37MFXKNXJFPC

Who shot the garbage man??

Please come back Mr. Garbage man!!!!!!!!!! We need you!

Garbage strike extended until 19 May??? wft...this has got to be the worst type of union strike imaginable. 

About a week ago, garbage workers decided to go on strike.  At first, I didn't think much of it, "Better than dealing with public transport strikes likes the ones I encountered several times in France." Well actually, this much much worse.  The garbage has taken my fresh air! And now I'm left with biking around trash all over the city. 

Even trash islands are starting to form around the area.  Maybe I should name them if they're going to stick around for a while.  Luckily the smell hasn't got out of hand since the weather has been cold and cloudy.  But what happens if things heat up a bit?  What's going to happen to the bananas and fish I threw away....what's going to happen with people getting drunk this weekend and spilling their beans across the roads......no, I'm not thinking about personal story beans!  The city is going to become seriously gross and possibly pose some health dangers.

Now is not the time to invite my pal B.McClean over :)

At least some people find this fun