PalenQ

Why Tex Mex - is that a tongue in cheek comment?>>

well Smeagol it certainly seemed like a comment that was critical of the OP's food likes - you are saying you can't really be asking that, right because that would be unfathomable in Paris - totally insane quewstion, etc.

The type of ridicule IMO that we should avoid - value judgments - well that is just my take and maybe I got it wrong. But nothing in the OP's statement seemed tongue in cheek to me but you may be right.

flpab

Tex mex, Cal Mex whatever, her web site has all the sales codes for after Christmas sales and that is very useful. I learned about Fodorgarchs on this thread, female Napoleon syndrome, though heels could fix that. I wonder if the French tourist eat at Paris Epcot?

Smeagol

As an avid Anglophile Pal... You must have heard of the expression pot and kettle... And yes you did get it wrong but really let's not ruin a perfectly good thread....

MmePerdu

"I learned about Fodorgarchs on this thread, female Napoleon syndrome, though heels could fix that."

There are limits to what even the highest can do, so maybe not in extreme cases, physically or psychologically.

PalenQ

Smeagol - you have my apologies and we use the same pot and kettle phrase over here. I did not mean to include you in the type of Fodorgarchs who routinely are rude to newbie posters - which is my real issue - I've never seen you do that and reflecting probably lumped you incorrectly with the rest. And yes we all have our foibles but being rude to new posters I do not think you will find anything from me indicating that as your pot and kettle comparison seems to do. Veteran Fodorgarchs yes but newbie posters must be treated gently - Fodor's welfare depends on them and so so often they have been chased away - some say in tears - by the 'brutal' comments they naive questions bring up.

This thread from its original purpose is long gone and only being kept going by this type of discussion, prompted by one Fodorgarch's 'cute' remark which prompted the whole Fodorgarch discussion.

Yes enough already.

And "Fodorgarch" need not be a negative term - there are many who are constantly helpful and nice - just a minority who are not. Fodorgarch BTW to me means a small group of people who try to control the whole thing.

Smeagol

Pal - thank you
I know what you mean though about some posters but yes I always try to play nice .

kerouac

It seems to me that whatever kind of restaurant the French are interested in opens in more than sufficient quantity very rapidly. That is why there are more than 1500 Japanese restaurants in Paris and sushi has passed pizza as the #1 delivery item in the city of Paris. If some day the French decide that they have more than a passing interest in Tex-Mex, the laws of supply and demand will come into play once again. In any case, Paris had many more Tex-Mex places in the 1990's, which replaced the Greek restaurants that preceded them, and which disappeared in turn by a short fad of Cuban restaurants. And then the long lasting Japanese craze began...

PalenQ

Yes to the constantly changing food tastes of Parisians and folks who visit it - I love walking around the Latin Quarter and seeing restaurants I once went to looking exactly the same with same staff but different kind of food - kind of like musical restaurants.

There once was a Texan restaurant or themed one in Les Halles on the surface - Coleman's I believe it were called and featured steaks for 4th of July BBQs and all year - but is now gone replaced by a series of different themed emporia.

even the Irish pub has come to Paris!

kerouac

Oh, there are at least 400 'Irish pubs' in Paris. Our dear friend FrenchMystique even works in one of them.

PalenQ

So curious as to if an Irish bloke came to Paris would he want to go to an Irish pub? (Similar to the Tex-Mex question it seems) and I think yes he would just to see what a Parisian Irish pub is like - looks like an Irish pub because there's companies that specialize in duplicating the looks of an Irish pub all over the world - we have tons in the States.