Picture taken by me, SBB, Copyright (C) 2009
Americans love French food, French people, French shopping, French sights, everything French! We marvel at stuff they seem not to care about. I bet most of the french people either found this movie (Julie & Julia) offending, or never heard of it. So, we are kind of, well, in a way gullible losers. Also, not to make you feel bad, but Americans eat. If someone in your bookclub says "Who wants popcorn," probably everyone will raise their hand, but not run up and stampede, same with children. But if the case is "Who wants Ice Cream?" then everyone will run up, or with children, stampede and jump and reach until they get their third serving of Ice Cream :) :) :) :) :)
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Recently, in my hometown, we had a foodie festival, if I may. All the resturaunts from the Bethesda area set up tents in downtown Bethesda (all in the same few blocks of each other... they get assigned tents) and give out tastings. For example, you could get Ice Cream from Ben and Jerry's. You couls get a little tortilla from Calafornia Tortilla. Even Mortons was there giving out delicious steak sandwhiches. Anyways, I was thinking about how this relates to somethings... it was on the tip of my tounge... THE FRENCH! This month as a matter of a fact, the French are having a chocolate festival in Paris. The French often have "fairs" like we had. It was very enjoyable, and very fun, but it made me wonder who came up with this clever idea out of the blue...???
I was thinking I should she some small print saying "Copyright French People Forever," but whatever! If I cannot travel to Paris every year, I mights as well eat some inexpensive tortillas and steak sandwhiches. Also, my friend told me that when they lived in Saint Louis, they had a 'Taste of Saint Louis," and this was "Taste of Bethesda." Then we realized that basically every town in the world has some type of tasting reunion every year.
"TASTE OF AMERICA**"
**Copied off of the French :)
Hahaha
ReplyDeleteVery funny! I live in North Carolina and in our small town we have one of those too! Weird!
-Cam
Very interesting; another thing that takes place in a lot of cities are "dining days". Where I live they have had these in different parts of the city; you get to have a 3 course dinner at a great discount. It's a great way to try different places in a new city.
ReplyDeleteThere is a restaurant in my city called Rouge (it's a cafe with a French name) that has outdoor eating like in Paris. Maybe that is where they got the name? I'm not sure.
Anyway, glad to see the copyright protection notices!!
I was at the Taste of Bethesda years ago and remember it well. I ended up marrying a woman in my apartment who met me there.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful, wonderful idea. I don't know if they do this in Baltimore (where I grew up). This is making me very hungry.
ReplyDeleteMarkus-- I went to a place called "Pod" in University City and they had that discount called University Dining Days. It is a great deal... a three course meal for either 15, 20, or 30 dollars per person. :) Many places like French food, so they immitate it...
ReplyDelete-Sam