woolybanana Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 How on earth can anyone write this? It must be the silly season of course when journalists are away on their hols and there is not a lot of copy about so they reach into the bottom drawer of bad stories.Personally I do not know anyone in France like this. Setting up 'Aunt Sallys' is just ridiculous:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8176312.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I have seen most of those points of view expressed on the various Fora though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Haven't we just done this, or do I suffer from déja vu episodes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 Well, yes, but this article just seems so silly and is perhaps a bit of an insult to the good expat folk living in France. If anything I find that it is the opposite viewpoint that is stated when people are pushed ie that things are better 'at home'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 "Cumsee cumca Rodney""Jammay oubliette Blightee Del" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 Plus the DM and baked beans and terms like 'Blighty' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 CALM DOWN wOOLY.#tAKE ONE OF THOSE LITTLE WHITE PILLS OR oPen Another bOTLE OF pLONK.iT'S NOT REAL IT'S ONLY SOME WORDS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprogster Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Too true for comfort!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 U know people like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plod Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I certainly have met people like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 I must live in a different world!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprogster Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I am sure it is exaggerated for artistic license, but there is a ring of truth in it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Streason Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 I thought it was mildly amusing. The point of the article (I thought) was not so much France v England but some of the frustrations arising from living with what was thought of as a good friend.Once went on holiday together with my best friends family and it was very frustrating - their family habits were totally different to ours (getting up - meal times etc etc). Wasnt the whole article knocking his friend rather than knocking France (or unrealistically praising England)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Plenty of people like that where we live. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Off to buy stale baguette and then will cook ratatouille ( guess that s what he calls " overcooked vegetables " )[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cendrillon Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 [quote user="Frenchie"]Off to buy stale baguette and then will cook ratatouille ( guess that s what he calls " overcooked vegetables " )[:D] [/quote]IMHO ratatouille should be well cooked, I have been offered undercooked ratatouille in the past and for me it's not so good. I think the writer is talking about the miserable, overcooked, apologies for vegetables frequently served in restaurants [+o(]and on that point I would agree with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Maybe that s a cultural point then, because in the UK, I often find the vegetables are served too crunchy ( peas, brocoli, carrots etc)Une affaire de goût donc .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 Well, broccoli and peas can be crunchy but there is nothing worse than a hard carrot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Wooooly !!! [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Frenchie, I can assure you that there is a certain type of British person - the sort that the French deride for serving boiled meat and jam - who insists on boiling all vegetables for at least four hours. Fortunately they now are in the minority, and, as you say, the current taste (particularly in reasonable pubs and restaurants in Britain) is for vegetables to be al dente - i.e. slightly crispy. I know it varies in different parts of France but here in Normandy most vegetables are traditionally regarded as cattle food, and only comparatively recently have restaurants caught on to the fact that you can actually serve something other than chips and salad with meat or fish. Also the variety of vegetables available on the markets has considerably improved; even, horror of horrors, including some imported produce. But the supermarkets in general have a pretty unimaginative choice. The classic round here is selling frozen peas only when peas are in season.You can't beat a firm parsnip either [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 French beans to you, except reheated tinned or jarred! OK in Salad of course[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Will, well, then it is just me, I must be old fashioned.. LOL Current trend not to my taste .I never said I would boil veg for hours either, [:D]You and wooly are naughty men LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprogster Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 The problem with overcooking veg is that you loose all the nutrients and vitamins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Not if you cook them à la vapeur .Who said " overcooked " ?Cooked is the normal way , as opposed to the current trend of undercooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babcock Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 A friend who is a good cook, apprenticed to a top chef decades ago, invited his neighbours round for a real English roast.He gave them roast beef and Yorkshire pudding "pudding with the meat!", plated all together "you have the vegetables with the meat?" and "are these vegetbles al la dente?". He served them cheese after the desert "this is the wrong way round!" Still they enjoyed the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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