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Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 14:47
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > En réponse à Robert Hailman <robert@...>: > > > > > No eggs at breakfast? How do you live?!?!? > > French people eat usually only sweet at breakfast (when they take any > breakfast). So it's a lot of bread with butter, jam, also croissants, pains au > chocolat, etc... The egg at breakfast is very exceptional but exists. Then it's > generally a soft-boiled egg. French people have quite an original way to eat > eggs :) . >
:-) Actually, the typical French breakfast you describe sounds a lot like what I usually eat for breakfast. For me, though, it's just preference, not cultural.
> Well, at least you've seen > > the error in your ways. ;-) > > > > Only because I like salty better than sweet. So at my breakfasts I mix > everything (not at the same time of course). I even eat camembert at breakfast > :) .
I like salty too. I just can't take too much salt at breakfast, because then the taste will be in my mouth all day... urgh.
> > No cheese, either? I thought the French all eat cheese all the time. > > There goes one stereotype. > > > > Very true. But you can replace it by the fact that French people eat a lot of > bread. So much that in most restaurants bread is free, as well as water.
Even at a lot of decent restaurants in Canada bread is free. Well, not always completely free, but you usally get *some* free. Although that could be French influence.
> > Well, for all that list has done, at least it's helped prove > > sterotypes > > wrong. And that's a good thing. > > > > Always :) .
Of course. Wait a minute... *you* eat cheese, don't you? Maybe *your* the stereotypical Frenchman. No, wait, you don't act snooty enough towards Americans. ;-) -- Robert

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Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>