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Aaaand one more thing - who do you celebrate at Christmass, Lay? Jezisko or Dedo Mraz or Santa Claus?Santa Claus, but in some regions it's somebody else... but generally it's Santa Claus.
Quite a surprise for me
have you always celebrated Santa Claus? And who is it in other regions?
LolI´ve seen the commercial
so Lay... maybe our countries are very similar
I shamelessly love this song. It puts me in such a happy mood. Well, the commercials make me wish summer would come soon and I'd get dressed in a pretty dress and go to some pretty places like in these commercials and enjoy the food
lol, I mean, you can do it at home
but it doesn't feel quite the same.
I didn't know the commercial is in other countries
I have never heard of those 2 things :| then again, I'm not a specialist in regional cuisine
And what about oscypek?
what's the name for it in Slovak? I remember there was a 'conflict' between our countries, cause we wanted o register it in the EU as our specialty but Slovaks didn't want to agree, to acknowledge it's Poland's specialty? Anyway, I'm pretty sure Slovak and Polish 'oscypek' differ, as for how much milk is used in the production and from which kind of animal... ok, I'll stop now, I'd have to google this for more details
We call it "oštiepok"
It's Gwiazdor, Aniołek (little angel) or Dzieciątko (associated with Jesus Christ)... it's so lame that I had to check wikipedia for the others except for Gwiazdor (because my father's from the region where traditionally it's rather Gwiazdor than Santa Clus, that's why I remembered the name haha).
Yeah, bryndza is, I meant this zincina thing...
Funny how you have food topic right now. I've been in a mood for tidying and organizing things in my room, and getting rid of stuff, and yesterday I found these recipes from a newspaper, from a few years ago and I was reading them through and... I want to taste most of them 
they had these sections for different countries, Argentina, Brazil, The US, Canada, Vietnam, Japan, India, China... haha but then as I started reading how to do particular things, I felt like I am not patient enough to prepare these things. As soon as I read 'do this and that and put it away for an hour or a whole night' I skip to the next recipe. If I prepare something, I want to eat it right away, not wait for hours or a whole night 
McDonalds of course, Pizza Hut too... KFC yes... erm, dunno what else. What is typical American food, by the way?I´m best at everything! Lol, joking
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they were cool too
I´m sure I´ve forgotten many... and I did not mention many traditional food that I simply don´t cook, or when I do only occasionally. And my mum makes the best spaghetti I´ve ever eaten
Oh yeah 'Chicken soup for the soul' or something of that sort.
American food? I would probably say that it's everything overall but as for food that's 'standardized' across the country I'd say that the menu & offerings of an average diner and steakhouse is probably 'American' food. There are a lot of Italian, Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese restaurants across the board.
Chain restaurants and fast food IMHO tend to be disappointing as I believe that they tend to drive out small restaurant owners (who usually make better food). So there is this culinary homogenization going on. It's most evident when one takes to the highways and only the big chain restaurants are around.
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you know how much I love that song and movie
i know, i need to make you some more gifs, lolllllll
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What, another Last Unicorns´fan?Have you by any chance read the book???
No, unfortunately not. I didn't even know there was a book of it, I mean, there has to be a book of course, I just hadn't thought about it! Need to check and get a copy!
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The book is a little bit different than the movie - deeper, darker, much more beautiful and less romantic it smells of great heroes and poems and princesses, but it´s more about longing and searching for something... and it´s not the unicorn or prince Lear who find happiness in the end this is in the movie too, but in the book it´s more evident. Oh, you have to read it. Mr. Beagle´s language is a poem itself here are some quotes, from this site: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/106....Peter_S_Beagle
“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
“I am no king, and I am no lord,
And I am no soldier at-arms," said he.
"I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,
That am come hither to wed with ye."
"If you were a lord, you should be my lord,
And the same if you were a thief," said she.
"And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper,
For it makes no matter to me, to me,
For it makes no matter to me."
"But what if it prove that I am no harper?
That I lied for your love most monstrously?"
"Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing,
For I dearly love a good harp," said she.”
“The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
“The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.”
“It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”
“When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you.”
“I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.”
“Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?”
“Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling.Schmedrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, "That's what heroes are for.”
“Where have you been?" she cried. "Damn you, where have you been?" She took a few steps toward Schmendrick, but she was looking beyond him, at the unicorn.When she tried to get by, the magician stood in her way. "You don't talk like that," he told her, still uncertain that Molly had recognized the unicorn. "Don't you know how to behave, woman? You don't curtsy, either."
But Molly pushed him aside and went up to the unicorn, scolding her as though she were a strayed milk cow. "Where have you been?" Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shrilling beetle, but this time it was the unicorn's old dark eyes that looked down.
"I am here now," she said at last.
Molly laughed with her lips flat. "And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?" With a flap of her hand she summed herself up: barren face, desert eyes, and yellowing heart. "I wish you had never come. Why did you come now?" The tears began to slide down the sides of her nose.
The unicorn made no reply, and Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is the last unicorn in the world."
"She would be." Molly sniffed. "It would be the last unicorn in the world to come to Molly Grue." She reached up then to lay her hand on the unicorn's cheek; but both of them flinched a little, and the touch came to rest on on the swift, shivering place under the jaw. Molly said, "It's all right. I forgive you.”
“Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls."
Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said.”
“What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. "Always, always," it sighed, "faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.”
“I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.”
“How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns(....) But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?”
“I am a king's daughter,
And if I cared to care,
The moon that has no mistress
Would flutter in my hair.
No one dares to cherish
What I choose to crave.
Never have I hungered,
For that I did not have
I am a kings daughter,
And I grow old within
The prison of my person,
The shackles of my skin.
And I would run away
And beg from door to door,
Just to see your shadow
Once, and never more. ”
“For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.”
“It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.”
“Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.”
“The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was, shivering with the desire to go to her"...[later, Molly asked the cat] "Why were you afraid to let her touch you? I saw you. You were afraid of her."
"If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will... The price is more than a cat can pay.”
“- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.”
It's Gwiazdor, Aniołek (little angel) or Dzieciątko (associated with Jesus Christ)... it's so lame that I had to check wikipedia for the othersYeah, bryndza is, I meant this zincina thing...
Funny how you have food topic right now. I've been in a mood for tidying and organizing things in my room, and getting rid of stuff, and yesterday I found these recipes from a newspaper, from a few years ago and I was reading them through and... I want to taste most of them
Dziecatko I think is the same as our "Ježiško" 
Gwiazdor is something like Santa Claus or Dedo Mraz? A great man in red with reindeers?
zincica is made from sheep milk as well and I´m almost sure you have it too - it´s liquid but dense and tastes like acidic milk or something like this. Lots of biocultures and so...
Loool I´m just the same as you I need to cook quickly, I don´t like recipes that go like "put it in the fridge for 2 hours - 24 hours" and so, and I´m like - what the hell, I want to eat, not look at that food sometimes I have this mood to make something special, and it´s very rarely, but sometimes I do such things... but generally - no way. I like quick and easy recipes that are tasty and healthy as well (sometimes ) - also, the ingredients to those special food tend to cost really much, and I ´m not that wealthy to afford that. 
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Oh yeah 'Chicken soup for the soul' or something of that sort.American food? I would probably say that it's everything overall but as for food that's 'standardized' across the country I'd say that the menu & offerings of an average diner and steakhouse is probably 'American' food. There are a lot of Italian, Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese restaurants across the board.
Chain restaurants and fast food IMHO tend to be disappointing as I believe that they tend to drive out small restaurant owners (who usually make better food). So there is this culinary homogenization going on. It's most evident when one takes to the highways and only the big chain restaurants are around.
Have you ever eaten that one? I mean, not in restaurant, it´s not the same there.
How about native american food? There is no such things? They must have had traditions - is it all absolutely forgotten and lost now?
It´s not the same here... at least I haven´t noticed. There are many McDonalds´of course and such things, but there is also a variety of other restaurants, big, small, medium ones - because once people hear that this and this restaurant makes a really good food, its size really doesn´t matter. Also... they had to close KFC once because there weren´t any customers and it was in the main town in the main street while many hidden restaurants in narrow streets really prosper. In the huge shopping centres there are restaurants from all the world - China, Slovak, India, Italian... somewhere even Spanish ones or Arabic. You can choose. Then there are many, many pubs in the city that also cook meals, and they are full as well. And we also have a hell lot of pizzerias but in those too, cook normal meals as well. It seems like Slovaks love to eat and drink and especially drink
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Have you ever eaten that one? I mean, not in restaurant, it´s not the same there.
Chicken soup? I eat it often . I think I've eaten just everything you just wrote about- or at least something like it.
How about native american food? There is no such things? They must have had traditions - is it all absolutely forgotten and lost now?
I've never (knowingly) met a 100% traditional native american in person. I think Miss Sunshine has mentioned that she is partially native American, btw.
Non-white minorities are over 25% of the US population- and they are mostly African American, Hispanic, or Asian. The Native Americans had a great many traditions, but the natives were always small in population relative to the 'invaders'. They were decimated as Europeans settled across the continent. There are places where remnants of their cultures still remain, though.
It´s not the same here... at least I haven´t noticed. There are many McDonalds´of course and such things, but there is also a variety of other restaurants, big, small, medium ones - because once people hear that this and this restaurant makes a really good food, its size really doesn´t matter. Also... they had to close KFC once because there weren´t any customers
There is a wide variety of restaurants in cities- pretty much everything.. especially New York and San Francisco. Corporate restaurants do not thrive very well in cities and the best restaurant entrepreneurs try to set up shop. A lot of competition = good food. So the culinary situation is very good in New York, for instance.
It's just that corporations tend to dominate food when you get out of the cities and big towns. There are still a lot of private restaurants but definitely a lot less due to the long term proliferation of publically traded corporate brand names. For instance, there are perhaps 33,000 McDonald restaurants- mostly in the United States- and IIRC 17,000 Starbucks coffee shops. So you have 2 out of every 3 burger joints as a McDonald's and most of the rest of the market owned by corporate competitors like Wendy's and Burger King. So getting a real burger- made with good quality meat with buttered bread and hand prepared ingredients......and delivered at fast food serving times & low prices becomes a greater challenge now, LOL.
The malls, restaurants, and stores that cradle American highways are generally corporate locations rather than privately owned small businesses. It is not uncommon for a US medium sized town to have its commercial sector completely dominated by corporate locations. It can be difficult for a small business person- lacking cost-saving infrastructure and support- to compete profitably in these saturated markets.
Chicken soup? I eat it often
Something like it? I don´t know the proper names in English, I´m sorry for that... some don´t even have one. Like bryndzove halusky or ostiepok or zincica... what I and Layla were talking about. Is "goulash" a proper food name?? Do you cook it often there?
I've never (knowingly) met a 100% traditional native american in person. I think Miss Sunshine has mentioned that she is partially native American, btw.Non-white minorities are over 25% of the US population- and they are mostly African American, Hispanic, or Asian. The Native Americans had a great many traditions, but the natives were always small in population relative to the 'invaders'. They were decimated as Europeans settled across the continent. There are places where remnants of their cultures still remain, though.
She looks like that 
Where are those places?
There is a wide variety of restaurants in cities- pretty much everything.. especially New York and San Francisco. Corporate restaurants do not thrive very well in cities and the best restaurant entrepreneurs try to set up shop. A lot of competition = good food. So the culinary situation is very good in New York, for instance.It's just that corporations tend to dominate food when you get out of the cities and big towns. There are still a lot of private restaurants but definitely a lot less due to the long term proliferation of publically traded corporate brand names. For instance, there are perhaps 33,000 McDonald restaurants- mostly in the United States- and IIRC 17,000 Starbucks coffee shops. So you have 2 out of every 3 burger joints as a McDonald's and most of the rest of the market owned by corporate competitors like Wendy's and Burger King. So getting a real burger- made with good quality meat with buttered bread and hand prepared ingredients......and delivered at fast food serving times & low prices becomes a greater challenge now, LOL.
The malls, restaurants, and stores that cradle American highways are generally corporate locations rather than privately owned small businesses. It is not uncommon for a US medium sized town to have its commercial sector completely dominated by corporate locations. It can be difficult for a small business person- lacking cost-saving infrastructure and support- to compete profitably in these saturated markets.
Oh, here it´s the other way round.... when you leave the city it´s hard to find Mc Donalds´ or KFC or any other chain-restaurant. Out in the villages it´s mostly pubs, motels, restaurants or pizzerias. And burgers as a whole are not that popular here but I can´t compare Slovakia to USA, lol. It´s like comparing elephant and a mouse
It's Gwiazdor, Aniołek (little angel) or Dzieciątko (associated with Jesus Christ)... it's so lame that I had to check wikipedia for the othersYeah, bryndza is, I meant this zincina thing...
Funny how you have food topic right now. I've been in a mood for tidying and organizing things in my room, and getting rid of stuff, and yesterday I found these recipes from a newspaper, from a few years ago and I was reading them through and... I want to taste most of them
Dziecatko I think is the same as our "Ježiško"
zincica is made from sheep milk as well and I´m almost sure you have it too - it´s liquid but dense and tastes like acidic milk or something like this. Lots of biocultures and so...
Loool I´m just the same as you
Similar, but not exactly the same...
Now I feel like a fool, cause with this description, I should easily guess what were you talking about, but somehow I don't 
I mean, I should know 'our' name for it but I don't.
Yes, that's another thing! It's so stupid when you see tv programmes or read magazines which are supposedly for ordinary people (no high-fashion/lifestyle/etc. mags) yet they give you ingredients in recipes which would be difficult to find even in big cities 
or even if you find them, they are damn difficult so if you prepare something for the first time, no one can guarantee you a particular (expensive) ingredient won't be wasted.
When I lived in Albuquerque I ate a fair amount of Native American 'inspired' cuisine. New Mexico in general I think has a large Amerindian population, and the University was very keen on the promotion of their history and culture. Navajo and Hopi food, at least, was very dependent on (blue)corn, (pinto)beans and chile (naturally!). They eat a lot of frybread too (which you'll find in the restaurants), but that was as a result of flour rations given to them once they'd been forced into reservations. 
When I lived in Albuquerque I ate a fair amount of Native American 'inspired' cuisine. New Mexico in general I think has a large Amerindian population, and the University was very keen on the promotion of their history and culture. Navajo and Hopi food, at least, was very dependent on (blue)corn, (pinto)beans and chile (naturally!). They eat a lot of frybread too (which you'll find in the restaurants), but that was as a result of flour rations given to them once they'd been forced into reservations.
I've never been to New Mexico. Albuquerque is a Wild West small city. Have you visited the reservations?
^Them be fighting words yankee... 
Actually, yes, I did visit several across the South West. There was a sad irony in that outside the reservations there are massive signs warning you about "respecting" the land and the people and not to litter or abuse the place - and then you enter and it's pretty much a shit-hole of burning tyres and piles of shopping trolleys. I'm not commenting on the sociological reasons for that, just that's how it was.
Something like it?
I am just guessing. For instance, I had something similar to 'bryndzove halusky' at a steakhouse a few days ago but I'm sure that it wasn't made of goat cheese. Lamb, goat meat, goat milk & cheese is not commonly eaten in the United States. In New York, turkish food carts often sell lamb right on the street and there are turkish restaurants that make great lamb but it's often not a prime menu item. That's unfortunate- I like lamb!
I don't think the term 'goulash' is used very often to describe a stew. I may be wrong though. The russians call meat stew 'goulash' too, right?
She looks like thatOh, here it´s the other way round.... when you leave the city it´s hard to find Mc Donalds´ or KFC or any other chain-restaurant. Out in the villages it´s mostly pubs, motels, restaurants or pizzerias. And burgers as a whole are not that popular here
What are the most popular fast foods in Slovakia?
Interesting. Are the fast food prices higher than your average privately owned restaurant?
It is known that in overseas places (like China)- KFC and Pizza Hut are often positioned as higher end (rather than low end) restaurants. As is the same with other products. I remember walking around Taipei and being visibly surprised to see bottom of the barrel US clothing brands (ie. Wrangler Jeans) having their own storefronts and selling at premium prices.
^Them be fighting words yankee...Actually, yes, I did visit several across the South West. There was a sad irony in that outside the reservations there are massive signs warning you about "respecting" the land and the people and not to litter or abuse the place - and then you enter and it's pretty much a shit-hole of burning tyres and piles of shopping trolleys. I'm not commenting on the sociological reasons for that, just that's how it was.
Did you visit an Indian Casino? I've always wanted to, but never got around to it. The situation with Native Americans is ignored in the global press. I rarely see an article in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, or New York Times about native americans and their struggles. The press has a love affair with China and Europe, though.
Similar, but not exactly the same...Now I feel like a fool, cause with this description, I should easily guess what were you talking about, but somehow I don't
Yes, that's another thing! It's so stupid when you see tv programmes or read magazines which are supposedly for ordinary people (no high-fashion/lifestyle/etc. mags) yet they give you ingredients in recipes which would be difficult to find even in big cities
Don´t worry about it - as soon as it springs to your mind, tell me or ask parents, they might know.
Yeah, that´s it, lol. Not only are the ingredients expensive and hard to buy, but the preparation itself takes damn too long and still it´s not guaranteed that the final results it´s going to be eatable but sometimes it´s fine to try new things, some of them are easy and quick. But mostly I stick to the food I know well - and from time to time learn new things, like these pagace recipe - damn, I love them.
Oh, Lay, which is your favourite food?
When I lived in Albuquerque I ate a fair amount of Native American 'inspired' cuisine. New Mexico in general I think has a large Amerindian population, and the University was very keen on the promotion of their history and culture. Navajo and Hopi food, at least, was very dependent on (blue)corn, (pinto)beans and chile (naturally!). They eat a lot of frybread too (which you'll find in the restaurants), but that was as a result of flour rations given to them once they'd been forced into reservations.
Did you like the food? Sounds quite tasty.
These reservations thing always tends to sadden me. But it would not be for the first time that one "race" - or "nation" eliminated the other. There is serious evidence that these things happened regularly even in the pre-historic era, when one kind of -homo eliminated the whole "nation" of other kind of -homo. But I guess most native americans will just mix with the other races absolutely after some time.
But what worries me too... when my father got back from Brasil, he told me that those native "indians" were more like our gypsies than real indians. Like you, B, mentioned that mess in the whole area... he told me the same. Is it really true? And is it like that everywhere? Are there any reservations not touched by our civilization (and is it even possible?). Sorry for silly questions - in advance.
I am just guessing. For instance, I had something similar to 'bryndzove halusky' at a steakhouse a few days ago but I'm sure that it wasn't made of goat cheese. Lamb, goat meat, goat milk & cheese is not commonly eaten in the United States. In New York, turkish food carts often sell lamb right on the street and there are turkish restaurants that make great lamb but it's often not a prime menu item. That's unfortunate- I like lamb!I don't think the term 'goulash' is used very often to describe a stew. I may be wrong though. The russians call meat stew 'goulash' too, right?
I guess they do, yes. We call it "guláš"
I like lamb too but it´s not very common food in here - it´s too expensive and eaten mostly on rare occasions or among the villagers and huntsman. Not regular amongst city people for sure But cheese yes, and a lot of milk, though in cities you only got the ones from supermarket, but out in the villages you can get to have a real milk from cow or goat, and a real cheese made in home. They taste differently from those bought in supermarket. Much better.
What are the most popular fast foods in Slovakia?Interesting. Are the fast food prices higher than your average privately owned restaurant?
It is known that in overseas places (like China)- KFC and Pizza Hut are often positioned as higher end (rather than low end) restaurants. As is the same with other products. I remember walking around Taipei and being visibly surprised to see bottom of the barrel US clothing brands (ie. Wrangler Jeans) having their own storefronts and selling at premium prices.
Most popular fast foods in Slovakia - McDonalds, for sure. There is no other fast-food that could compete to him, and generally... people here are not very fast-food fans. They rather go to a restaurant or pizzeria McDonalds is like... when you like something quick and are not very hungry. Mostly for students.
Erm, no. They are not higher, but not much lower too but it depends of course which kind of restaurant and where, and what menu would you buy and so. McDonalds is a little bit cheaper than a regular restaurant, but not that significantly.
Pizzerias here are too considere as the higher end restaurants - but KFC not.