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madmonk



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 3:37 pm    Post subject: I must learn French quicker, I mustlearn French quicker,I... Reply with quote
    

Wedding anniversary yesterday ,so went out for a nice meal, understood most of the menu but unsure of other bits, so went for the pork, the dish was called "croustillant de pied de porc" served with pureed potatoes, taste very nice, texture tender but unusual, anyway cleared my plate, got home and decided to do a quick translation, Oops I had apparently eaten "crusty foot of pig" and yes I would eat it again, but still wondering what I will get next time if my French doesn't improve.

Fee



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    



I ate a horse-based spicy sausage while in Paris many years ago...thanks to the evil Parisian waitress

Was quite nice, bit grissley though

cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hmmm... Trotters... Such a tasty treat. Shame you only get four per pig.

sean
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

cab wrote:
Hmmm... Trotters... Shame you only get four per pig.


I got five with half a pig from Alison. Is there something she should be telling us about her views on GM?

MarkS



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I had the owner of a restraunt come dashing over to warn us about the special being calf brain last time we were in france.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Tete de veau is the most disgusting dish you can imagine. Until you eat it, it's GREAT.

madmonk



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick wrote:
Tete de veau is the most disgusting dish you can imagine. Until you eat it, it's GREAT.

That was on the menu as well

Nick



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Try it!

My local haunt in Calais has a menu, with a handy translation for the non-French speaker. The dish I've yet to try translates as 'Plate of snout'.

I'm sure it's very good, it's just, well, you know...

sean
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fergus Henderson waxes lyrical about the qualities of snout.

wishus



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 07 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I can remember when I did an exchange trp from schol and went to stay with a French family. They took me with them on their annual hoilday to Perpignan, were we stayed in a hexagonal brick chalet in a holiday village. I couldn't believe it when the mother went to all the fuss of cooking pig's trotters for the family... on holiday!! I felt ever so glad at the time about being a veggie. I got an artichoke instead - my first one ever! I hadn't a clue about how to eat it, but it didn't look any trickier than the trotter.

When I told my mom, she got this dreamy, faraway look in her eyes... apparently she used to love eating trotters when she was a kid, but wouldn't contemplate eating one now... not when you can buy real food!

Vanessa



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 07 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Madmonk, I think with French menus sometimes it's best NOT to know what you're ordering ... until you have eaten it! We post-war Brits are far too squeamish about food ...myself included! there are many things that I DO understand on menus, and therefore avoid - only to be told by others that they're "delicious".

Rob R



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 07 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

cab wrote:
Hmmm... Trotters... Such a tasty treat. Shame you only get four per pig.


Sometimes mine come with eight, or twelve And two or three heads & lungs too

Anders



Joined: 27 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 07 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi Madmonk,

I made a mistake like that too. I had the Tete de veau. It was awful, - I did my best and ate half, then I simply couldn't get more down. It was a murky soupy dish full of grey blubber. Apparently its veals head.

Happy anniversary and hopefully we'll see you at some point when we are in France.

Cheers

Anders

Blue Sky



Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France
PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 07 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You back in Blighty now then. Glad you made it back OK.

We all look forward to meeting up again next time you are over.

S

madmonk



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 07 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No not till the 18th do you need anything?

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