Good food and drink never hurt, and depending on the nationalities of our managers, there definitely is a good variety. Although I love Estonian cuisine, it's probably one of the less mainstream ones from these.
Fiddling around with that bottle took some time, but after some help from the good old AI, I was also quite happy with the result XD
Hah - I guess it's necessary for me to change most often used AI then, as my attempts to utilize it produced horrible mess instead of anything useful (your "text art" could actually be identified).
I agree, Estonian cuisine could indeed be likely one of the least mainstream of all HGL countries (even though it's always subjective), but having of course been visited Estonia "few" times I've also enjoyed foods&drinks over there. So much so that ended up buying cookbooks by few Estonian authors... :)
And as far as our HGL community goes in this regard, there's a treasure trove of different cultures mixed up together, even though geographically HGL has shrunk to some extent (losing managers for instance from USA, Argentina and now from small but interesting Uruguay)...
And while we still don't know each other almost at all (in reality, as we're not that much in contact, at least to my knowledge, even though I don't use Discord), at least to me food, drinks and other interesting parts of culture works as a bridge between people... So maybe, someday, food and drinks could be some of the things that brings us together during our HGL meet and makes the moment even more memorable.
It's just sometimes that I don't want to flood forums with so many off-topic messages that I might prefer, as I know some people have hard time reading my messages already (and important information could then be buried in messages like this, should I send more posts like these)...
Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 5:59:34 PM