Apero

An apero is something very typical for Switzerland. It includes meeting up with a group of people to drink, so I guess not that typical but the expression is. And luckily it's very common here. It comes from the French and means before. Before eating I suppose, because there is very seldom any food involved other than peanuts and crisps and that sort of thing. Meaning you have a bunch of people coming directly from whatever they were doing grabbing a glass of alco, since normally the person inviting is paying. And then they grab another, and another and you get the drift. Drunken people who haven't eaten. Yeah, that's a recipe for success. In Switzerland. I, always being the sensible one (hehe), left in time and passed by my place on the way home. Only to realize there were people eating fondue (the smell of melted cheese! in an evening with 30°C!!). I asked the staff whether they were just stupid or tourists. American tourists I was told. But of course. So now I don't know whether to eat or go to bed.