Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 12:31 |
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Robert Hailman <robert@...>:
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> > 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. =^)
YHL
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