- “Why does my mother insist on buying Bolo Rei for Christmas?”
- “Yes, darling, I would love to do the dishes while Benfica is playing against Sporting.”
- “Don’t bother buying the twelve raisins for New Year’s Eve. My wishes never happen anyway.”
- “I never heard RFM.”
- “I’d never think of stealing a fig, especially from that loaded fig tree across the road.”
- “I live alone, pay the bills and go on holidays. All of it earning the minimum wage.”
- “Nope. Never saw Morangos com Açucar.”
- “Amália… Amália who?”
- “Lisbon is too cool, I don’t feel like venturing out of it.”
- “Cod? Too salty.”
- “I will never wake up early again to buy freshly baked bread and eat it while it is still hot with butter with a great cup of coffee.”
- “Our multibanco (ATM) system sucks. I can pay the bills, make transfers, top up my mobile phones, etc. Having too many options overwhelms me.”
- “I honestly don’t think I know any Portuguese expats living abroad.”
- “Albufeira is so quiet in the summer.”
- “Socrates did great things for the country.”
- “I wish the roasted chestnut sellers would stop contaminating the streets with that horrible smell every autumn.
- “We should modernize and replace our castles with shopping malls.”
- “I miss the days we had to wait for hours to be served at the bank.”
- “I love doing the IRS every year.”
- “Please, whatever you do, just don’t add garlic to it.”
- “No thank you, I just had dinner.”
- “Would you prefer a large or a small Cristal?”
- “I would invite you in to drink coffee but we ran out. Could you come back tomorrow?”
- “When I have visitors, I always buy foreign wine to show off.”
- “I don’t think Sardinha Assada should be sold during the Marchas Populares.”
- “Does nobody question why we need so many regional pastries?”
- “I think you should buy a souvenir instead of going to a masriqueira.”
- “Sintra? Never heard of it.”
- “That statue of a man wearing a hat and glasses outside A Brasileira? I don’t know. Maybe he was a politician?”
- “If I were you, I’d not go to Gêres. Just go cross the border, it is more beautiful there.”
- “Every time I go to my neighbor’s “pôr a escrita em dia” (to catch up) she invites me to eat something. It gets annoying.”
- “My favourite Portuguese dish? Carbonara.”
- “I don’t see the point of having food at a party. Surely it would be better if we had more booze and less rissóis.”
- “If I were you, I’d skip Azores. Their pineapple is a bit insipid and don’t bother with their cavacos.”
- “If you’ve been to Lisbon, you’ve seen it all here. Throughout the country, we all pretty much eat the same food and produce the same things.”
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