Many Americans enjoy eating French toast. In France, however, no one calls it “French toast”. They call it pain perdu, which means “lost bread”. If they gave it a little more thought, they’d call it pain sauvé – “saved bread” – since in reality it’s crusty bread that, but for the grace of eggs and cinnamon, would get thrown out.
If Friend A is giving Friend B a massage and says, “I can show you how to use a tennis ball to accomplish the same thing,” don’t tell Friend A that a tennis ball could never replace her. Tell her that only a bowling ball could do that.
Dragons were meant to breathe fire. A dragon that cannot breathe fire is a very sad dragon. School children will call such a dragon “Jezebel” and endlessly provoke it to sneeze. Actually, the French will name the dragon something else, but the sneezing part is true.
Whatever you do, do not allow someone to take a picture of you while you are eating frozen bananas. Frozen bananas are cold. They will make your face do strange things, and then your friend will post a picture on the Internet. But a nice friend will at least edit the picture first.
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I find it ironic that no one has any thought-provoking responses on your "Deep Thoughts" post.
I think the British have the most concise and accurate term for French toast: "eggy bread".
Incidentally, I had French Toast (although not actually called that) out in the middle of nowhere in Nepal many years ago. I don't know who introduced it to them or whether eggs+milk+bread is an inevitable combination wherever those three ingredients are available.
Wikipedia says, 'Bowling ball cores are constructed with different densities as well.'
So... are trying to say that Friend A is more or less dense?
More or less...
my french grandmother always made us french toast growing up & called it by the afore-mentioned french name... my cousin, jason, never quite got the french, though, & referred to it as "pamper doo".
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