Food, drink etc at Permanence and at the road food stops are all paid for by tickets with a varying Euro face value. You buy them in sheets at the Permanence or at the stops. It seems to me like an excellent method of not having to worry about piles of money accumulating for the organisers and speeds things up for the participants as you are not queuing while people fart about counting out small change one way or the other.
They did run out of beer at the Permanence last year right enough.
Thank you Mr Crush. A helpful response that is clear and concise.
Explained that way, yes tickets / tokens do seem like a good idea.
Learning that this method exists in the first place was also useful to know, so thanks for that to the big E.
Do I invent a silly name for everyone I meet in real life? Not people that have already got one, Edukator.
Just switched phone on. At the European Semaine in Ardennes. Did 800 m of climbing in 60km today. Thought Belgium was flat. Start riding to Normandy on Sunday. Looking forward to seeing you. Will have tickets for 1st round only!
At concerts in the Millenium Stadium, you queue up, buy tokens, then go and get your beer. It seems a bit crazy when you do it and see it working, it actually goes much more smoothly than the traditional bar scrums we're used to.
Enjoy the event and try not to communicate to the locals the way you have here. 
I'll look out for you wingnut. Follically challenged you say? And sticky out ears? Mine's a pint of entente cordial.
Do you invent a silly name for everyone you meet in real life, Dave? I hope not.
Do ou take the mickey out of a perfectly reasonable way of signing up to an event in real life? I suspect not.
Do you mock people using national stereotypes in real life? I hope not.
Do you imply people are lying when they give you statistics and facts about an event in real life? I suspect not.
Do you punctuate your sentences with the "fing" word in real life? I suspect you do.
If your real life persona is the same as your online one we won't get on at all. Adieu.
He once set his dog on me.
Samuri, it was nothing personal. It was just part of its training to go for vagrants and foreigners.
Righto, work is DONE and I am now officially en vacances.
Looking forward to hangin' with my new cyclotouring pals.
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