The next sentence: ¿Qué nos recomienda, por favor?
At this question the waiter takes a knife and cuts a notch into the table: every time he is asked, he makes another one. The table is covered in notches and looks thoroughly nostalgic (qué nos – the German “Kerbe” means “notch”). On the table stands a deer that looks a little odd, because it has a date at the end of its tail (recomienda – from the German “Reh”, “komisch” and “Dattel”: “deer”, “odd” and “date”).