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raytan. fish and chips with a shot of vinegar, wrapped in a newspaper and a pint of Watney's would be quite a treat. Who needs French cuisene. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

who needs the french? <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

cultural superiority? let's not go down that path...

We may not enjoy all freedoms of speech, but part of freedom of speech is allowing speech we may not agree with. Of course you can't yell " fire" in a crowded movie theater, but freedom of speech should be given a wide berth.

masongeneral. If there was indeed a fire in a crowded theater than you could in all truth yell "fire". <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

raytan. I thought France was part of England and Germany. The French plant trees on their boulevards so that the Germans can march in the shade. Then there is that parcel of land in France named "Brittany"; no coincidence. LOL <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

thank you masongeneral - I hate it when folks talk about other societies as somehow inferior to theirs for absolutely no reason...and when they misspell words like 'cuisene'...

french fries or chips, languages use differant expressions for the same words.
Raytan is British and Bob an American, there is a differance between British and American English.
So in my opinion the Brits use "Chips" and the Americans "Fries". In Duch and Flemish we call them Friet, which sounds like Fries. Another word for "Friet"
is "Patat". In the Duch Snack culture people eat a lot of
Chips. Chips with mayonaise and ketchup, Curry or peanut sause (very fat) with or without cut unions.
Where the English eat "fish and chips", we eat various kinds of Duch or Flemish (delishious big) fries with "Fikandel", "Kroket" , a "Bear meal" (Bere hap).
Next to that we have Mc Donalds, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza-Hut like you have them in the rest of the world.

I need the French, because I like the French cities (Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice, Cannes),
French cuisine, a bottle of C�te du Rh�ne Villages,
Bordeaux or Bourgogne, the French language, Brie
et Camambert and all those other lovely "stinking"
cheeses of theirs. I love French women and grils and so their cimema (French actresses) , and I love French chan�on (Jacques Brel, Yves Montand, Charles Trenet, George Brassens, Edit de Piaf, Julien Clerc, Charles Aznavour, Michel Fugain, Francoise Hardey and France Gall), and their cars; Citro�n, Renault and Peugeot. I love their stubborness and independance, and that they protect their language, culture and food against the mono-cultural Anglo-Saxon wave that roles over the world, The "Mal Boeuf" (bad food) as they call it. In the same time this tension is interesting, because in their hate-love relationship the French love America and the British stile (the french upperclass dresses British, drinks Whiskey more than wine - a half glas of whiskey is a b�b�, and 1/4 th glass or small glass is a foetus. They play Rugby, hockey and Cricket and hunt like the Brits -foxhunt). Washington is built by the French and the French supported the American revolution. French philosophers, scientists and artists delivered a great contribution to Western society, and without that influence we woulkd not live the life we live today. Politically I (as a citizen of a small European country) will always distrust the French and Germans,
but culturally I feel no borders with France.

Pieter

Hello again pieter its good to see you again and it seems like you solved the problem with your modem. I still like Gouda and Edam (smoked Eam is even better). Like the old saying goes "England and America are two countries seperated by a common language. I like patatas y huevos fritos and I like acetunas the way the gitanos prepare them; so much variety and so many different tastes. One of the best things in life is the difference in cultures because variety is the spice of life. It is a shame that there are people who would use these differences as a bone of contention rather than a course of enjoyment.

Jeh man, your words melt with my feelings.
I just came home from a long evening-night of
going out. Although the wine and beer I am stil sober enough to be able to respond on 3.45 on sunday morning European time. Nice