Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Ham junkie
One of first the things that first struck me when I moved here was the national addiction to three main foodstuffs … bread, cheese and ham.
While no-one would begrudge the French for their amazing abilities in the soft-cheese and bread department, getting used to consuming their not-as-good-as-italian ham in equal quantity takes more [...]
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Tetley - the unexotic tea
While I have nothing against Tetley tea per se, I am getting bored of it.
Alas, Tetley is the only real coarse tea brand you can buy in France (the draw-string variety) so I am left with little choice but to go on drinking it. Twinings show up now and again in the [...]
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Intervilles - hornier than the British copy
There was a gameshow on ITV a few years ago called ‘Simply the best’, which at first glance appearred to be an attempt at reviving the classic pan-european madness of ‘It’s a knockout’. Not so (apparently), this in fact was a poor facsimile of the French original. Why poor? Because they were [...]
