Answerpudlians with long memories may recall when France opposed the Iraq invasion, and Representative Walter Jones (Rep. North Carolina) responded with a campaign to rename french fries.
By the way, french fries are actually Belgian. We call them that because nobody in the US would recognize Pommes Frites as being fried pieces of potato.
Alan Moore
Posts: 2012 | Location: USA | Registered: 10-05-03
Pommes frites? You mean chips as in 'fish and chips'. (They are only French fries in McDonald's and British " American -style' restaurants in the UK).Of course American 'chips' are really crisps.
And Danish pastries are not Danish but Austrian' Accurately, the French call all fancy pastries 'Viennoiserie'i.e Viennese goods .'English muffins' are not only not English nobody here knows what they are supposed to be. And in Summer what could be more French than chilled Vichysoisse soup? Plenty ! It is American, not French . In France, if we want traditional chilled soup we have...gazpacho !
'English muffins' are not only not English nobody here knows what they are supposed to be. And in Summer what could be more French than chilled Vichysoisse soup? Plenty ! It is American, not French . In France, if we want traditional chilled soup we have...gazpacho !
As for "English muffins" I once met an Englishman who claimed they were known where he came from as "Pipe biscuits." I couldn't identify his accent, so he wasn't from London, Kent, or Sussex.
Alan Moore
BTW here in California, we grow a lot of Avocados. I was an adult before I heard the actual English name of this curious fruit: Alligator pear. Avocado is a pretty good joke, actually. Spelled with a "B" in place of the "V" but pronounced the same, it means attorney. The same thick skin, the same greasy feel...
AM
Posts: 2012 | Location: USA | Registered: 10-05-03
