Mosty u Jablunkova Local Customs

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There was small blackboard hang on the wall by the entrance to many local, Czech places to eat and drink, except chain fast food restaurants like McDonald's. Reaturant or bar/pub keepers used to write their advertisings with white crayon each day there: usually names of 1-2 drinks, beer or dishes offered at discount or just low prices this day.

One example: they offered two Czech beer brands at discount price: 14 and 17 Kc in this restaurant in Mosty u Jablunkova on my picture. Btw I never saw "happy hour" (all local drinks 50% off during this hour) advertisings in Czech. Beer/spirits were enough cheap to attract visitors, even in expensive Prague, I thought.

Generally it was not only Czech custom. I could see "menu of the day", "menu del dia", "plat de jour" etc. in many countries. But it's still not common custom, say, in Poland. I wonder why?

Hmm... not at all. Just colorful pepper pot/box (or peppershaker - hmm... which word is correct in English, all?) in local restaurant. I missed any nice looking art in Mosty u Jablunkova. I just think they should add more colours to usually grey village - paint it, add some art etc.

Mosty u Jablonkova ususally looked somewhat empty, sad and grey especially in not sunny days. There were not many colours added to the village, just some flowers by houses, green trees and... look at my picture. Nothing special, sunflower on... salt cellar (saltshaker) in local restaurant - not by Van Gogh, I suppose :-).

When the waiter brought us this small bottle on my picture in Hotel Beskyd Restaurant I didn't know what it was. The word "mlynek" was the same as in Polish and meant "small mill, hand-mill".
As I noticed there were various, mixed, dry herbs inside. I guessed that "bylinky" meant just herbs like basil, oregano (is it from Oregon?), thyme or rosemary. They used to add some secret herbs to various dishes (to grilled fish - trout - for example) at least in this part of Czech.

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In most Czech restaurants the waiter brought pepper pot/box with black pepper to add to usually not spicy Czech dishes. Warning: sometimes it was glass pepper-mill looking like pepper pot/box but with... no holes in the top. Turn round the top of the bottle to crush peppercorns into powder.
Btw pepper is "pepr" in Czech language, "pepr cely" means uncrushed pepper = peppercorns.

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It is local custom or maybe warning tip for hungry, not being on diet visitors.
I found many times off the beaten path restaurants and a few times restaurants in various Czech towns and cities which served small or even very small (Japanese - size :-) dishes. Hmm... the price was not always so small (in Czech way). Look at the weight of each dish marked in the menu ("jidelny listek"). It was often only 100 g (3.5 ounce).

But... don't worry, in all touristy places there were restaurants which served "American-size" dishes :-). And there were always larger dishes to choose from in each restaurant.

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They used to serve coffee in... glasses of various shape instead of ceramic cups in off the beaten path restaurants, not only in Mosty u Jablunkova, in both Czech and Slovakia.
I could see coffee served in simple round glasses in few hidden places (= nowhere :-) in Poland and quite many places in Romania, Bolgaria and former Soviet Union (Ukraine now) in the past.
OK, no problem, but coffee served that way was almost always terrible in taste and flavour :-(((.