daniel Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 If I were British and I wanted to live in France, I would open a fish and chips. There is none and I'm sure it would succeed in large citys (>100 000 people)But I'm French and that's why 1. I know it would work and 2. I can't do it myself :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 There are several in rural Normandy which seem to do quite nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I used to think that, that fish and chips would be a great success here. Also on the fêtes, foires and roadsides where they have hotdogs, sandwiches, etc. what about bacon sandwiches and a nice piece of cake or something instead of a crêpe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 We have one fairly near to us Daniel, the interesting thing is that although a large number of local French people use it, they apparently buy everything else on the menu except fish. It seems the idea of fish fried in batter is too strange. By the way, it's not British in origin.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I'm English (mostly, anyway) and I can't stand fish and chips. I usedto love them when I was a child. The chips these days always seem pastyand lacking the crisp outsides of those in my memory (are they twicefried in lard any longer?), and the emphasis seems to be on quantityrather than anything else. As for the battered sausages.. [+o(] ..should be illegal.I notice that British made cakes seem to attract a lot of suspicion atfetes where such items are sometimes sold alongside their Frenchequivalents. Perhaps there is some underground chatter about "mad cake"disease that causes Englishmen to don white clothes and undertakedangerous ritual games involving a lump of wood, a very hard ball thatmoves quickly and is entirely too difficult to hit, and (generally) getbeaten hollow by whomsoever they have been decent enough to teach therules to (a process that normally takes about 200 years ofcolonisation).If one is able to persaude a Frenchman to actually eat some of theaforementioned (I find kneeling on their chests, pinching their nosesuntil their mouths open and then stuffing it down their throats au gavagequite effective) the usual response is a gallic equivalent of "gosh,that's rather nice! May I have some more please?" However, I'm not surethat a business based on this approach would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Yes I know what you mean Jond, but I was not very clear, by "cake" I meant what the French call cake, which is fruitcake. That is quite popular here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 [quote user="Christine Animal"]Yes I know what you mean Jond, but Iwas not very clear, by "cake" I meant what the French call cake, whichis fruitcake. That is quite popular here. [/quote]True, true: but when I think of cake I always conjour up an image ofMaderia cake. For me, this is the acme of all cake, with carrot cake aclose second, particularly with a thick butter icing and smarties.[sigh] I feel the need....the need to Bake a Cake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opalienne Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 It's not just fruit cake which is called 'cake' in France. I have a French friend who makes an excellent 'cake' (that's what she calls it) with cheese and lardons in it...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 And often olives in it too Opalienne, usually refered to in my neck of the woods as cake salee, when it is good it is delicious with an apero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Running a Fish and Chip shop is like running any decent restaurant very hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 [quote user="chris pp"]We have one fairly near to us Daniel, the interesting thing is that although a large number of local French people use it, they apparently buy everything else on the menu except fish. It seems the idea of fish fried in batter is too strange. By the way, it's not British in origin.Chris [/quote]OK I'm wrong then, as I would have guessed just the opposite. As an ex expat in London, I thought I would know what the French would prefer : fish and chips but not saussages or sandwiches. I agree with the remark that runing a restaurant is hard work but remember that in a country where taxes are so high, this is where people cheat the taxman the most ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jc Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 We had one in 34,but it closed after a few years;the owner told me he had to employ a French "sleeping partner" to get the licenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 [quote user="Jc"]We had one in 34,but it closed after a few years;the owner told me he had to employ a French "sleeping partner" to get the licenses.[/quote]Well, I'm definitely wrong : I'm in the 34 and never heard of a fish and chips around. "Sleeping partner" sounds like a nice job but you probably don't need this anymore with the EC rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 [quote user="Jc"].. told me he had to employ aFrench "sleeping partner" to get the licenses.[/quote] Ihave been told several times by French people that the best way to learn thelanguage is to marry a French woman – which I guess would be the “sleepingpartner" bit but they never mentioned employing her [;)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardhat Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 yviers dept 16, fernando portuguese chap used to have a burger bar in london married to a french woman,he does best fish and chips in france that ive come accross,and lucky for me ,walking distance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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