La cuisine française for English tourists!
23/10/08 10:42 Filed in: Humour
Yesterday, I ate out with a couple of English friends in the seaside town of Pornic very close to where I live in France. I always try and speak French here, especially in shops and restaurants. I may not do so perfectly, but I do always try and find the French are helpful when I make the effort. My friends are a very sweet couple, big hearted, loving cockneys from East London. On my arrival at the restaurant, they had taken copies of the English tourist menu, something I would never do. Too late, that was the menu we got!
If nothing else, the menu made me laugh. In fact, it made me laugh so much I almost peed my pants! The English translation was so bad it made my French look brilliant. I took pen and paper and copied out parts of the menu so I could share it here, it was so funny.
Here are a couple of pictures of beautiful Pornic followed by some extracts from the menu:
Menu
Croutons, worn cheese and rust
Dung of warm goat (coated with breadcrumbs)
Variation of crudenesses
Priest’s profiteroles – Priests of Nantes with caramelised apples
Detail of the butcher and his sauce
Skate country
Greedy salad
Burned out salmon
Small curry of seas
Purse of St Jacques
Burned out duck breast with wipes poivrade
Greedy coffee
I had the dung of warm goat (in breadcrumbs). It was delicious! It was baked goat’s cheese served on croutons (no rust!) with a fresh bed of salad (not too greedy!) that included apples and grapes. Yum! But who would have guessed?
If nothing else, the menu made me laugh. In fact, it made me laugh so much I almost peed my pants! The English translation was so bad it made my French look brilliant. I took pen and paper and copied out parts of the menu so I could share it here, it was so funny.
Here are a couple of pictures of beautiful Pornic followed by some extracts from the menu:
Menu
Croutons, worn cheese and rust
Dung of warm goat (coated with breadcrumbs)
Variation of crudenesses
Priest’s profiteroles – Priests of Nantes with caramelised apples
Detail of the butcher and his sauce
Skate country
Greedy salad
Burned out salmon
Small curry of seas
Purse of St Jacques
Burned out duck breast with wipes poivrade
Greedy coffee
I had the dung of warm goat (in breadcrumbs). It was delicious! It was baked goat’s cheese served on croutons (no rust!) with a fresh bed of salad (not too greedy!) that included apples and grapes. Yum! But who would have guessed?
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