[78-L] OT: "french" stuff

[buster]

in France, what we call "French Toast" they call "student toast"

On Feb 10, 2010, at 7:33 AM, David Lennick wrote:

> Bob Rice wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] fwd: FW: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord ^
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>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Banjo Bud" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
>>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>>> Jeff Lichtman wrote:
>>>>>>> I am willing to eat French Fries in France without ketchup!  And not
>>>>>>> call them Freedom Fries, either!
>>>>>>> 
>>> In Europe, the usual condiment for "french fries" is MAYONNAISE! Back
>>> in 1972, when my second (ex-)wife was doing the "Europe on $5 a week"
>>> with me...travelling by thumb...she developed a taste for french fries 
>>> with
>>> mayonnaise...thereafter she used to confuse North American waitrons by
>>> asking for them...!
>> 
>>   Hmmmm? Hafta TRY it. Do they actually HAVE French Fries in France? I 
>> thoiught that they were an insult to Franch pride?
>> 
>>    Bob
>>> Steven C. Barr
>>> ______________________________________________
> 
> And what do they call a Denver Sandwich in Denver? Or a hamburger in Hamburg? 
> Or a wiener in Vienna?
> 
> French fries with malt vinegar..mmmm! (Doesn't work with the crappy pasty 
> underdone excuses for fries you get in most places, and Denny's replaced its 
> semi-decent fries with ghastly mushy tasteless curly things last year.)
> 
> dl
> 
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