Ay luv Miami!!!
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009What’s it like to live in a bilingual, bicultural city? Well, life isn’t evenly divided between the two languages and two cultures. Sometimes, it doesn’t even seem quite fair. I was having breakfast at Little Havana’s famed Versailles early this morning when I spotted one of life’s little inequities. (See photos). Looking at the menu I noticed that if you order bacon in English, you get four pieces for $1.95. If you order bacon in Spanish, you get three pieces for the same $1.95. I thought this was so funny that I took photos. (Actually, the funny part was probably me taking photos of a laminated menu at 7:30 in the morning…) I asked the manager about the discrepancy and he didn’t quite believe me so he brought over a menu. Sure enough, I was right. He had his laugh for the morning but he also assured me that “no importa el idioma; siempre te damos por lo menos cuatro o cinco pedazos de bacon.”


