It's The Holidays -- Everyone Is A LIttle Bit Loopy

[dr_phil_physics]

Nice To Know

WMU Today is the online newsletter at Western Michigan University. They give helpful writing tips at the end of each issue. Today's tip:

Writing tip--Do not capitalize a partridge in a pear tree or two turtledoves, but do capitalize three French hens. French is a proper adjective, referring to or characteristic of France, its people, culture or poultry. WMU Today returns in 2008. Happy Holidays.

But wait, mon cherie, zee fries they are not French, they are Belgium, no?

Country French Bread

This last piece of nonsense actually came out this morning, as I made my sandwich for lunch. I'd bought this loaf of Koepplinger's Country French bread and was commenting to Mrs. Dr. Phil that I'd bought it because I'd already tried various breadmaker's (pseudo) German, Italian and Dutch breads, but I was sure the French would object.

Zees eez not French bread! Eet is some sort of bastard American white bread, no? There eez no crunchy crust, no long baguette, no aroma, no eet eez never packed in a plastic bag -- eet eez not French bread. No Frenchman would stand to eat such a thing!

Anyway, it makes a nice sandwich with a slice of processed American cheese, a cut up hot dog and some Heinz ketchup.

Sacre bleu!

Dr. Phil

Comments

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

But ze zings of Belgium, it eez called ze Flemish, no?

[redwill.livejournal.com]

or per'aps Walloon, n'est-ce pas? Zey arr parrt of la Belgique, aussi?

:)

[redwill.livejournal.com]

German cars, on the other hand....


I'm glad that Porsche still makes its cars in Stuttgart and that GM is not selling a plastic wrapped and upholstered version of the latest 911 series variant. I'm rather fond of the 933 variation/development of several years ago.

I think a butter fried cheese sandwich made with good ol' American white bread and Kraft processed cheese slices would make a nice breakfast for me right now. Too bad I have not the butter or bread or cheese. Hm... perhaps some pasta shells and hot dogs with fresh garlic and assorted spices....

[ndgmtlcd.livejournal.com]

From "Ratatouille":

TV Narrator: [on television] Although each of the world's countries would like to dispute this fact, we French know the truth: The best food in the world is made in France.

And also, you have Colette waxing lyrical about the sound of the crust being pressed as the true way to know (without eating it) that a loaf of bread is good.

(I went to the Koepplinger's Web site and saw the pics of the breads and there's no way that loaf could make a crinkly-crackly sound.)

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Amen. Ratatouille is wonderful.

And my point exactly about the "Country French" bread crusts... On the other hand, for white bread it's pretty damned good.

Dr. Phil