6. Oh. My. God. Where do I even start??? Believe me, I cannot even begin to describe how intrigued I am by the "poulycroc" and the "crizly", but I swear that I will go to my deathbed still wondering about the "cheese crack". But perhaps it's for the best - I might have gotten hooked and ended up selling myself on the mean streets of Brussels for just another taste of cheese crack. Dude, it's cheese crack - that could totally happen...
7. Belgium is a civilized country where you can buy frites at the little stand in the street (in this case, from Antoine's, which makes the best frites in Brussels) and then sit and enjoy them with beer or wine or whatever at a neighbouring bar where frites are "accepted". Civilized, I'm telling you.
8. The half-and-half - it's half white wine, half champagne, and the waiter brings both bottles and fills your glass to the point where the only thing keeping it from spilling is the surface tension, so the only way to start drinking it is to slurp - hee! So not classy but so much fun. And it's about half what it would cost in Paris, if they even served such an awesome thing, which they do not.
9. Sure, the French make pain au chocolat, and it's wonderful. But the Belgians do it too, and they add chocolate glaze on top. Chocolate glaze on top of your pain au chocolat...mmm...excuse me for a moment while I wipe the drool off my chin. Seriously, when the French are being left behind in the field of pastry? Well, you might want to strap on your ice-skates, because apparently Hell has just frozen over...
10. They sell copies of In Bruges in the tourist office in Bruges!!! If you haven't seen the movie (Tiny Dancer hasn't, and I had to educate her that the correct way to refer to the city is: In F*ckin' Bruges), you may not realize how completely, totally, insanely awesome this fact is, but if you have? Well, then you know.
To be continued...
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