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- From: steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter)
- Newsgroups: can.politics,can.general,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: Pro British is not anti French (Was: Legalized ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.214845.902@spxtech.qc.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:48:45 GMT
- References: <21DEC92.14690968.0091@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
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- From article <21DEC92.14690968.0091@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, by CZ94 <CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>:
- >
- > .....
- > be seen as anti-French. And though my education was at times
- > absurdly pro-British, it was not generally anti-French. People
- > .....
-
- Pro-British education is not anti-French.
-
- Anti French sentiment in England may come from other sources:- ( :-) )
-
- Brits, in their homeland, may have a general feeling of nausea for
- people who eat things like snails, pigs feet, frogs legs,... :-)
-
- I remember going into a French restaurant, looking for something
- "safe" to eat, knowing I would be crossing the channel within 2
- hours (I'm a landlubber!), deciding that the safest thing on the menu
- looked like ham omelette, and being served uncooked pork slice with a
- decidedly raw egg thrown over it. Uurrgghhh! I might not have made it
- to the ferry terminal if I'd eaten it. :-)
-
- As for "French" "breakfast" - typically stale, dry white french loaves
- and "bidet"s of sometimes re-heated coffee. Uurrgghhh again! :-)
-
- "Bathrooms" in French "Chambres-d'hote"s!?
-
- I digress.
-
- I wonder how many times the phrases "Bloody French Peasants!" and
- "Maudites touristes anglaises!" are muttered on French soil in an
- average summer? :-)
-
- Please don't misunderstand me. These comments are intended simply
- as a (hopefully) humerous diversion. I enjoy going to France. I
- have considered emigrating there.
-
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