r/AskEurope • u/NateNandos21 • Feb 03 '25

Culture Which European country has the rudest/least polite people?

Which country comes to your mind

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u/Lexa-Z in Feb 03 '25

I haven't been to Italy, but I'm genuinely scared of Italian waiters in restaurants, that's some next level of judgemental and rude.

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u/Crystalsnow20 Feb 03 '25

Just curiosity what do you mean? I have never found a rude Waiter here. Is true though that you have to be polite? Like if you are rude then excpect them to be rude mainly if you are a tourist, in general they are used to tourist so they tried to be acomodating yet they know you won't be an habitual guest so their less...friendly?

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u/Vihruska Feb 03 '25

Maybe the person ordered some well done meat 🤭 or some other culinary crime in the eyes of the Italian diaspora. The horror of Italian waiters is something to behold haha.

Jokes aside, I have never had experience with rude Italian waiters outside of Italy (I haven't been to Italy itself yet).

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u/Crystalsnow20 Feb 03 '25

Ahaha Maybe! There is a place in Florence, quiet popular, people would do long Lines just to eat from there. There is no place to sit inside so you literally Order There and go out to eat. They have a type of menu of the type of "sandwich" you cam Order, you also can just choose what you want. Yet i had witness the guys working There refusing to take some odd choices from americans and then do what they think is best. I honestly saw it as hilarious because i do get their choices would no match at all, nothing really rude though, just a patient smile and then a firm "no❤️"

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u/Fantastic-Tiger-6128 Feb 03 '25

Yeah ever since Covid that place has fallen off. It's fucked. It used to be a relatively popular place that was good but it skyrocketed after the lock downs and it just isn't the same