A trio of traveling Americans were just seeking to tuck into dinner — but their entrees got here with an supersized side portion of European enmity.
The table trouble began when TikTokker @black_sherlock made the apparently egregious error of showing up at a restaurant in pretty Porto, Portugal for a 6 p.m. supper — earning the hungry Yanks unlimited refills of scorn.
After wondering why they were the one people at the beautiful spot, locals and other self-appointed experts were quick to pile on.
Within the comment section of a post that has to this point received greater than 1.2 million hits, many viewers insisted that only tourists eat at that hour, with everyone else waiting until much later within the evening.
Later dining is a fixture in lots of southern European countries like Italy, Spain and Greece.
“Italy here. The one place where dinner is served at 6:00 pm is the hospital,” commented one user.
“I’m surprised you can even discover a restaurant open at the moment,” a commenter joked, while one other ribbed: “They probably thought you were having a late lunch.”
“No less than no person has to take care of their obnoxiously loud conversations,” one continental meanie mocked — referencing the American affection for mindless chattiness in public spaces while abroad.
Northern European dinner hours typically align somewhat closer with the North American average, as noted by several replies. “You simply missed all of the Finns,” one joker joshed.
The dumped-on diner quickly realized his mistake — along with his group doing their best to benefit from the solitude.
They were interrupted only much afterward by a family with a baby, who arrived just as he had signed the bill.
Despite the ocean of exasperated Europeans within the comments, a couple of fellow countrymen got here to the person’s defense.
“I’ll never understand why Europe eats so late. I don’t wish to eat just a couple of hours before I am going to bed,” declared one stubborn American.
This TikTokker’s viral mishap is just the most recent in a protracted string of American embarrassments overseas, arousing the apparently easily-irked Europeans.
As The Post previously reported, one woman was slammed over her efforts to mirror the regional dining style, which sees the fork stay in the identical non-dominant hand throughout the meal.
Americans are known for passing their cutlery between their hands before and after cutting food, in what’s also often known as the zig-zag style.
Before long, she was slammed with critics calling her and other Americans ‘primitive.’ One user even said that watching the entire affair was “worse than nails down a chalkboard.”
One other common American faux pas that Europeans often gripe over is our alleged insistence on inordinately oversized luggage.
The steep hills, cobblestoned streets, and lots of stairs that are likely to make up many European cities can suitcase schlepping painful for locals and tourists alike — and create a racket that disturbs residents.
