Teamedup Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 We have been asked for copies of the divorce papers too, only I can't remember by whom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Russethouse Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Debra, If you really do need a copy of your husbands full certificate the quickest way is to send a cheque to the office where he was originally registered, with the details. Ordering from the GRO is taking several weeks at present, due to the popularity of 'Family History' which is apparently seasonal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I can't remember who wanted the copy of the divorce papers or how often we have had to give it. It is with all the 'usual' papers that are always with us if we have to do anything at all remotely official. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kitty Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 ...that they actually eat frogs legs - I haven't seen them on a menu yet (and I've been around France since President Pompidou died). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 They do eat froggy legs, Cathy. Usually buy them frozen in big bags from supermarkets. But most of them come from faraway places like Vietnam.Fry them in garlic and parsley. I've had them a few times in people's homes, although never seen them in restaurants. I've had snails in people's homes too, but you rarely see them on menus round here. Maybe it's a regional thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I read somewhere that the frogs' legs get sent to Germany and the snails to Spain. Though I've only ever had frogs' legs in a Spanish restaurant. I've never been to Germany but someone who lives nearer could hop over to find out?"Waiter, do you have frogs' legs?""No sir, it's just the way I walk.""Waiter, waiter can you get me a crocodile sandwich?""Yes sir!""Go on then, and make it snappy."(Resurrected from the Old Jokes' Home)I'll get my coat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Frogs are certainly fished around here,using a snail as bait (it would have to be really). I've never questioned tooclosely those I have observed in the throes of combat with the unfortunateamphibians, but given their devious mien and surreptitious nature I rathersuspect that they shouldn't be catching them. They are here at least atraditional offering on July 14th. We even have a “frog fair” nearbywhere one can sample frogs legs cooked in curry sauce (truly an experience to beavoided) as well as more “normal” preparations involving lots or garlic. Supplies forthis come from Asia though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 [quote user="jond"] frogs legs cooked in curry sauce (truly an experience to be avoided) [/quote]Saw this on the everyday menu in an Asian in Nimes. Didn't try it. Not too keen "fusion" foods. Or French attempts at curry!According to CIWF, most frog legs come from Indonesia, where the frogs are gathered alive, cut open across the belly, and take about an hour to die.You're not allowed to collect frogs in France for eating.I eat them if they're presented to me, but wouldn't buy them, and as everyone says, they do taste like chicken. The flavour comes from what they're cooked in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I quite agree that they only taste of the dressing. But a few years ago I was at a Chateau in the Dauphiné where they provided buckets and nets and asked the public to help themselves. Apparently they kept the Grande Dame awake at nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 I have never eaten snails or frog legs - they would have to be well hidden in a sandwich or something; but I have seen what I think is mashed up snail paste in the freezer section of the supermarket and is it naturally that bright green colour or what do they add to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Parsley, I suspect. It figures hugely in unmashed snails in garlic butter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 There are probably real snails in them there shells, viva. The green stuff is the sauce, usually garlicky butter with lots of herbs or parsley.Or maybe it's grass. Or snail snot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opalienne Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I think that it's the butter to eat with snails - the green comes from parsley and it also contains garlic. Even if you can't contemplate eating snails, the butter is good with grilled meat and seafood, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 Thanks, if it's just garlic butter I shall have to get some...it looks a bit more gutsy than the little boxed cubes of butter I buy. I have never looked that closely before as I do tend to give that section of the freezer a wide birth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I've also had snails in this region that have been removed from their shells and deep fried in batter, fairly pleasant in a chewy sort of way as a snack. Snail soup in south Germany and a sort of soup filled with very small white snails, the type that climb to the top of posts in the evening, in Spain, these were in their shells and you have to pick them out with your fingers and suck the snail out - not bad at all.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saddie Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I have sometimes wondered who or how certain things came to be eaten. For example whelks ,lobsters,snails, frogs. I can accept that people may have ben hungry but who might have thought that shrimps may be edible , or mussels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Shrimps and mussels are obvious compared to snails, where the preparation takes a week and is very labour intensive. And snails don't (in my opinion at least) taste anywhere near as good as s and m. I have always imagined that in the past protein was perennially in short supply and so all possible sources were pursued, and a good deal of inconvenience was put up with. After all, if something isn't actually poisonous then someone, somewhere eats it. If it is poisonous the Japanese probably eat it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 [quote user="Dicksmith"] And snails don't (in my opinion at least) taste anywhere near as good as s and m. [/quote] .....say what?? (Sorry, Dick, my baser nature just got the better of me there for a minute)[:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 [quote user="saddie"]I have sometimes wondered who or how certain things came to be eaten. For example whelks ,lobsters,snails, frogs. I can accept that people may have ben hungry but who might have thought that shrimps may be edible , or mussels?[/quote]Poverty, and lack of contact with the outside world for trade. If you're stuck there, you have to eat what's there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 I think the Breton Kig ha farz is a prime example of peasanty food rather than French cuisine. A fatty thick slice of pork in cabbage, not my cup of tea at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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