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In Fay Weldon's short story "Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo" I found the following passage:

We went to a restaurant for lunch, since it was too wet to do what we loved to do: that is, buy bread, cheese, sausage, wine, and go off somewhere in our hired car, into the woods or the hills, and picnic and make love. It was a private restaurant — Yugoslavia went over to a mixed capitalist-communist economy years back, so you get either the best or worst of both systems, depending on your mood - that is to say, we knew we would pay more but be given a choice.
We chose the wild boar.

Does anyone know the meaning of the part in bold?

we knew we would pay more but be given a choice

Tsundoku
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In a state restaurant, the food would have been less expensive but the choice would have been limited.

In a private restaurant, there was a choice of dishes, but the food was more expensive.

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  • Thank you so much and If you don't mind could you please check out another question about this story? https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/16245/meaning-and-historical-reference-in-ind-aff – 999 Nov 07 '20 at 06:23