Hot Dogs in Bratislava

Posted by Amanda Kendle Sep 28, 2006

I just read an interesting tip right in the back of a guidebook for Eastern Europe:

"When counting with fingers, start with your thumb. If you hold up your first finger to request one item, you'll probably get two."

Now they tell me! I needed to know this about three years ago, when a friend and I each wanted to eat a hot dog. Being just a day after our arrival in Slovakia, we still hadn't mastered our Slovak counting, and held up two fingers. The wrong fingers - we got three hot dogs. Now, thanks to this tip in Rick Steves' Best of Eastern Europe 2006 guidebook, you don't have to make the same mistake.