Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, 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 :) .
>
> <wry g>
> I was appalled when I learned that (some) Americans eat eggs and bacon
> and sausage at breakfast.  It seems like such a greasy way to start the
> day--and that much grease will make me ill until I've been up for an hour
> or so.
>
> Cereal.  Toast.  :-)  But no milk if I can help it.
>
> And eggs--for lunch.  =^)
>
My favourite breakfast: thick piece of bread spread thickly with duck or
goose or pork lard sprinkled with paprika, pork cracklings or smoked
bacon, fresh tomatoes and green onions and peppers, with a cup of tea and
a coffee and a smoke after.

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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