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Some restaurants give a free basket of bread with a meal as a sort of appetizer. Most people either consume all of it or just leave the leftovers.
by quartesixte 4y ago
Some restaurants give a free basket of bread with a meal as a sort of appetizer. Most people either consume all of it or just leave the leftovers.
- bluedino 4y agoMany people ask for more bread after they wolf it down and even ask for some to take home. It might be buttery, lightly seasoned bread or something like rolls, usually fresh-baked.
- Markoff 4y agoAh, OK, my (Chinese) wife is like that, she won't leave anything behind, I don't mind leaving it behind, but I can understand trying to avoid waste since many places will throw away bread which was offered to other customer. And often the bread taste actually good, so it makes sense to take it.
- yobbo 4y agoIt's to fill stomachs so that the portion sizes seem bigger.
- SilasX 4y agoAh so like a mild version of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1499/ https://xkcd.com/1499/
- tablespoon 4y agoAh, so it's just that the OP wrote something that was prone to be misparsed. I read "breadbasket home" as a compound noun and guessed it was some kind of food bank or something, but "home" was really an adverb modifying took. So what was meant was something like "My grandma ... always took [home] the bread from a [restaurant] breadbasket..."
- quartesixte 4y agoYeah welcome to split verb-adverb pairs in English!