Re: OT: Junk/Dim S(ui)m

En réponse à John Cowan :


>"We eat everything that moves except trains and planes."
I thought the correct one was "They eat everything that flies except planes 
and everything with four legs except tables" ;))) .


>Fried, that's weird.  Boiled and chopped fine with butter and garlic,
>that's French!  :-)
Boiled and chopped fine?!!!!!!! That's NOT French, not by a 9-parsec 
shot!!! The French way to eat snails is whole (cleaned of the intestines 
and other bitter parts, of course), cooked in the oven in their shell (or 
special plates meant specifically for snails) IN garlic butter (the snails 
must cook IN the butter). Garlic butter has to be prepared first, by mixing 
together butter, chopped shallots, chopped garlic, chopped parsley and a 
bit of peper. Cutting snails is at best a sin!! You're supposed to take 
them whole (with very small two-toothed forks used only for snails) and eat 
them whole. What you describe could be the recipe for a sauce, but 
certainly not the way we eat snails, wherever in France!!

Other ways of eating snails is with a garlic cheese cream sauce (making it 
nearly like a soup), or with a tomato sauce (heard it was Spanish of 
origin). Fried doesn't surprise me at all. But boiled and chopped fine?!!!! 
You're wasting food by doing that I tell you!!!!!

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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