[78-L] OT: "french" stuff

[buster]

and we are getting dangerously close to discussing...poutine.

On Feb 10, 2010, at 7:37 AM, buster wrote:

> 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 ^
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> ----- 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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