Posted on 07/27/2014 12:12:01 PM PDT by not2be4gotten.com
I thought I would share it.
I don't get into the Muslim situation here, because I don't have the time tonight.
It is significant and I have seen the problems and have lived the problems.
Maybe for another post.
What do they call a “Quarter Pounder with Cheese” in Paris?
While hitchhiking from Paris (1977) a Frenchman picked me up...he spoke no English but did speak German. He was driving to Switzerland to pick up his French-Canadian girlfriend for a weeks vacation climbing in the mountains around Grindlewald. I got to know them both and I ended up climbing with them for the next week. The interesting thing was, no one could talk to everybody at the same time. I could speak to him in German and to her in English. They could communicate in French. It was fun.
Royale avec fromage
I agree with all your points except #4.
That’s because of the Metric System, right?
Royale avec fromage.
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Jinks, buy me a coke!
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This is true. Especially young women 20 to 30 years old. Nobody really knows why.
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10) French women are not fat.
True. Walking the streets of Paris for a few weeks, this is very apparent. Again, the question is why?
People who smoke are quite often thin. In America, people used to combine these two qualities, to a certain extent. Then, we decided to stamp out smoking. Today, we wonder where all the obesity came from.
It's all quite obvious.
French people walk a lot as well. I went to Paris last year, and all I know is that I could never drive there.
They call it “hamburger a la Americane” and the hamburger meat is raw.. Really, I ordered one and had to send it back to be cooked.
A local PBS station is rerunning "Nicolas Le Floch" (set during Louis XV) and is supposed to be fairly historically accurate.
Any way, one of [police inspector] Le Floch's informants is a guy with a screen and bucket. Not that Le Floch hits his mark all the time...
I actually went to a McDonalds last year there, and it was fine.
Agree except as to the food. French food is great. Still cook out of my Julia Child cookbook.
My experience too: the French were friendly, generous, smart. I have no idea where the negative stereotypes came from. I have been to France about a dozen times over the last 20 years and I always had a great time and made new friends. If you visit the cemeteries in Normandy and the Muese-Argonne, you will be blown away with the beauty and reverence they have shown for our honored dead.
The only disagreement I have with the author of the piece is that the food is sensational everywhere. If you’re looking for American chow, not too available. If you’re looking fine dining, France is the best.
I would expect that Mc Donalds would be OK, I was at a French sidewalk cafe.
I spent over ten years in Europe. France is much like the rest of Europe, some people are nice, some are rude. Americans traveling in Europe are the same.
American and Mexican food is easier to find these days than back in the day, but why bother. Even the Brits are putting out fine chow these days if you know how to find it. Indian, Indonesian, Hungarian, etc. places are generally very nice. Frogs and snails were put on this Earth for a purpose, the French have figured this out.
American cars have never sold well in Europe because of how Europeans tax their cars and their gasoline. Maneuvering a ‘63 Buick through medieval villages was never going to work. I’ve tried most of them: Peugeot, Audi, VW, BMV, Lotus. The Lotus was the best except for the mechanics bills.
smoking is more disgusting though
plenty of smokers are fat
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