Going Dutch

One of the things I had to get used to when living in Berlin was that everyone assumed that every meal was a Dutch treat. That every meal -- even proper dates -- were split.  I wondered where "Dutch treat" and "going Dutch" came from and here's what Wikipedia suggests: The phrase "going Dutch" probably originates from Dutch etiquette. In the Netherlands, it is not unusual to pay separately when going out as a group. However, in modern Berlin, Wikipedia again gets it perfectly: In most of northe...