Is nothing sacred from government interference?

"First the French get mad at you for touching the fresh fruit in the stores".
If you like to eat strawberries or peaches that have been handled by a dozen customers before you, bon appétit.
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A. It is a joke.
B. I once get yelled at in Paris for lifting a bottle of olive oil. Maybe that is considered fresh fruit in France. Maybe you heard of washing fruit and vegetable before you eat them.

<Where is the miss who Fell a Sion please ?


Another Koelsh for those who get this one.>

You owe every 13 year old boy within earshot a Kolsch, lol!

There are about four people here with a sense of humor. The rest have the have assumed the frowning posture of an autodidactic oenophile>>

I'm getting blackberries....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI
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Poor Ronnie.

koelsh then.

I once get yelled at in Paris for lifting a bottle of olive oil.>

as in shoplifting?

The worst experience I had in Paris at a fruit and veg stand in front of a small grocery was when I wanted some goober peas and as it was not self-service the guy bagged them for me.

A few blocks away when I started cracking some open I found that they were virtually all rotten - unedible.

so I went back to the market expecting an apology and some other peanuts but no - the guy actually yelled at me and shooed me away saying no returns - if I'd had time I would have complained to the Paris version of "trading standards" or "sanitary food" but I did not - I was steaming mad when he refused to give me my money or new good peanuts but that is also a part of Paris - rudeness on a big scale where the customer often never comes first - especially one-time throwaway customers like a Yank.

I once get yelled at in Paris for lifting a bottle of olive oil.>

as in shoplifting?

That I can accept, getting scolded for reading the label is pure Parisian and Fodor's.

" I once get yelled at in Paris for lifting a bottle of olive oil. "
Next time wash your hands.

Ok. Now please clean up Pigalle and tear down that kitschy Moulin Rouge.

" I once get yelled at in Paris for lifting a bottle of olive oil. "
Next time wash your hands.
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You will happy to know that this will be the first decade since the 1970's, I have not visited Paris at least once. Unless the plane I am on to other countries makes an emergency landing.

It's not likely that many visitors will come to France if they're interested in the usual sex-trade options.

Most people who troll the internet for sex-workers end up going to SouthEast Asia, Western Africa, Amsterdam or somewhere in the Soviet Union, where it's much easier to "hook up" without suffering legal consequences.

The average Asian tourist in Paris would probably seek solace in the 9th, 10th or 13th arrondissements.

Politicians are so silly, pretending that prostitution can be regulared by laws. Now that we have the internet, it is even more of farce to think that transactions can be stopped.

These people are the same as schoolbooks -- always at least 30 years behind the times.

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