Nor the Nova in Spain

annhig : Le Gorafi is a parody of Le Figaro newspaper. - never take their info seriously - a bit like The Onion.

Or nord presse in Belgium.

As long as we talk about Belgian fries all is well ;-)

I bought a great couscous salad mixed with fruit and an orange vinegar dressing to eat on the train. It is very yummy cold as well as warm and don't have to worry about spoiling.

The Italians say worse about the Romans. In fact, the aphorism of Asterix in Italian is, "Sono pazzi questi romani", which derives from the acronym SPQR. This acronym dates back to the Roman Empire, and stood for "Senatus Populus Quiritium Romanus"). It appears on all property of the Roman city government. Italians say that it stands for "Sono porci questi romani". "Pazzi" is a bit milder than "porci", which means "swine".

I've seen other versions, too, such as "Solo preti qui regnono" (Only priests rule here), but that belongs to a distant past.

Btw, I just read that a new character should appear in the ribe of the Gauls : IP fix. He would be in charge of the dolmens.

;-)

I bought a great couscous salad mixed with fruit and an orange vinegar dressing to eat on the train. It is very yummy cold>

Yes a great take-out item from supermarkets -had many a picnic with them.

That is North African taboulé.

Wow, now the French invented cous cous.

Maybe Wo you should hang out with more sophisticated Americans.

And they never heard of double entendre. Of course, if they never heard of it, it does not exist, giving a distinct Gallic flavor to solipsistic.

merci, WoinP. I wonder if we're no longer allowed to say that "all roads lead to Rome", or "when in Rome" or is it just the mildly derogatory phrases they object to?>

Or "Rome wasn't built in a day"?

Had a bad day IMD ?
Fed up wiht people projecting their bile on internet.

Double entendre is not french but if you want to tell me how to speak my own mothertongue, be my guest. Or maybe not.


'Maybe Wo you should hang out with more sophisticated Americans'

That exists ? When I look at your president I have my doubts.

PQ : You're not even allowed to say it is romantic...

<i>I have only eaten couscous from CROUS. Admittedly you can't ask much for that price, but the student memory is so strong it tainted my conception of couscous.</i>

FuryFluffy, I completely understand your hesitation if you have only had "institutional" couscous. But it is no different from having a "steak frites" at CROUS compared to having the same dish at a nice restaurant.

(For those unfamiliar with CROUS, it is the university food service that costs just a pittance for students, about 80% less than commercial prices.)

We eat couscous often in the US. But I'm very glad to have this list of Moroccan restaurants in Paris as we always eat Moroccan one night when there.

I still buy a can of Saupiquet from time to time when alone at home.
In the plastic part I reheat the semoule the rest goes into a big bowl and gets microwaved.
My wife is always half amused half disconcerted that I still behave like a student and half disgusted at what I am able to eat.

Tonight no couscous alas. Apéro with a friend - view on Eiffel Tower from his balcony then seafood.

Actually, all of the canned couscous misxes are not awful. They are to be avoided whenever possible, but as we say in France, "<i>quand on a faim, tout est bon.</i>" ("When you're hungry, everything tastes good.")

I sent a box of couscous mix to a friend in Boston once (besically this is a can of couscous vegetables and broth along with a little bag of semolina -- to which you add your own meat), and she was down on her knees in ecstasy after having lived in France and Israel for 6 months.

kerouac, were the two things related :-)

>> it is no different from having a "steak frites" at CROUS compared to having the same dish at a nice restaurant.

But steak frites at CROUS was nice...
Generally the foods at CROUS are eatable, by student standard, but there are 2 dishes there that I must sin: couscous, and andouillette. The andouillette smelled so bad that after 1 bite I couldn't touch the rest of my meal. Normally I don't have problems with other smelly foods like cheese or shrimp paste. I have never laid an eye on andouillettes since, though I know I probably miss out a decent gourmet.

For couscous I'm willing to try Le Petit bleu, as I said above. But before that, do you know the name of any good couscous can?

Tonight no couscous alas. Apéro with a friend - view on Eiffel Tower from his balcony then seafood.>>

you poor thing, WoinP. I am desolée for you.

It has been revealed that President Macron's secret comfort food is "<i>cordon bleu</i>."

Do you eat couscous the way many Arabs do I believe -with their right hand?

WoeinParis probably uses his left hand?

IMD probably uses both hands!

Ann
I had a great evening.
Spent a lovely dinner with my friend - recovering from a VCA
I have a gift fir having friends experiencing death or near death experiences.
Food was great. View from his balconies was spectacular.
Left quite late and helped a motorcyclist who was all over the place.
Plastered I am afraid but only material damage.
Nothing.
Well some people would write a rant about it.
Life is beautiful if one sees the bright side
Hips. But even without hips life is great.

I ate couscous with my hand just once in my life, when I was invited to dinner at the home of a colleague in Casablanca. Pulling the meat apart was the only time it got a bit messy.

In restaurants, utensils are always provided and it is for each person to decide if they want to use them or not. This is the same in places like India.

Over the years I have noticed that the taboo of the left hand has all but disappeared in at least the urban Arab world.

Maybe Wo you should hang out with more sophisticated Americans'

That exists ? When I look at your president I have my doubts.
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Of course Marie Le Pen and her worse father, Jean-Marie, must be considered the height of tolerance and sophistication, as was the Vichy government.
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Palenq-Please do not ask what I use as a knife.

You win the prize, IMD -- first person on the thread to make an allusion to Nazis and WW2 to try to win a debate... about couscous. Really, sometimes I don't know whether to be ashamed to be on this board or just laugh it off.

Godwin's law
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American attorney and author Mike Godwin coined his eponymous law on Usenet in 1990

Sooner or later . . . from Wiki

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies)[1][2] is an Internet adage which asserts that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1"[2][3]‍—*that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or his deeds.

Promulgated by American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990,[2] Godwin's law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions.[4] It is now applied to any threaded online discussion, such as Internet forums, chat rooms, and comment threads, as well as to speeches, articles, and other rhetoric[5][6] where reductio ad Hitlerum occurs

"Reductio ad Hitlerum", I had not heard that before; or Godwin's Law, for that matter, but I can see it as an useful concept. On this Forum it could well be "Reductio ad Tipping" to which we degenerate.

So IMD.
You insult my US friends that you will never meet and you bring in Vichy.
Let me remind you that the French didn't elect Le Pen. Father daughter or niece.
But I think Trump has been. and is in power.
Laval petain and Doriot and Bousquet and the likes are all long dead now and Vichy has reverted to being a spa town since more than 70 years
So what is your point - apart from throwing abuse ?
The white pill is not working anymore ?

Going to le rendez vous des camionneurs for the greatest couscous I know in Paris.
However it is in Aubervilliers. A place which is of course gritty etc.
(Not touristy).

Kerouac if you haven't tried it yet it is worth it.
You could join me for a lunch if you are in the neighbourhood one of these days !
However I am not sure you are a sophisticated enough US guy ?
Bah we will not tell IMD. I myself am an unsophisticated European guy. I can't even speak French well enough...

With pleasure, Wo. I was just in Aubervilliers two days ago to pick up a few things at Carrefour.

Ahh, the passsive/agressive nature of the Internet. It is fine to throw mud and insult others but when it returns, they are hurt to the quick and so, so innocent.

BTW, the Le Pens have been around far longer than Trump and his ilk but why let facts get in the way of an insult.

I will retract the Vichy government comment and just add a fact that Jews are leaving France at the highest pace now since WWII. I guess that has nothing to do with the right wing leanings of France?

Looks like your "data" is out of date again, IMD.

Google this recent article in Le Figaro: <i>Ralentissement spectaculaire de l'alya des juifs de France</i>

That is because Jews don't like couscous.
Thanks for pointing that out. Unless it has nothing to do with it ?

And IMD you didn't insult me.
You insulted my US friends.
You insulted france.
You insulted anybody's intelligence with inappropriate comments.
You insulted couscous by polluting an innocent thread.
What else ?

You Didn't insult me.
La bave du crapaud n'atteint pas la blancheur de la colombe.
Excuse my French indeed.

It's probably best to let IMD rant all alone, sad and desolate creature that it is.

However, Wo, I will not let you say that Jews don't like couscous. Some of the best couscous in Paris is in kosher restaurants, notably in Belleville.

Let's not forget that the Koran (or Quran for those who allow themselves to be yanked around by every 'expert' who claims that the words must be modified) says that everyone is allowed to eat the food of "the people of the book" (the Torah).

I was joking.

I am game for a couscous in Belleville too.

i would join you both if i could. please eat extra for me.

<I will retract the Vichy government comment and just add a fact that Jews are leaving France at the highest pace now since WWII. I guess that has nothing to do with the right wing leanings of France?>

Large parts of Tel Aviv are now french. The photographer I work with exclusively is French Canadian - Moroccan by origin (only in Israel) and has a lot of friends who made Aliyah from France. Their reason: "Paris is getting so ugly with all those refugees, it's just not the Paris how we would like it to be".

Nothing to do with LePen. If Jews are fleeing anything it's "The Mooslims"