The Trouble with France is......

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24 Feb 2010, 12:08 pm

There is a lot of McDonalds in France. :wink:
... and problems of overweighting decided the "Ministère de la Santé" ("Ministry of Health") to insert information messages ("to stay healthy don't eat too fat/salted/sugary" ; "eat at least 5 fruits and vegetables each day") in advertisements about food and drink.

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24 Feb 2010, 12:21 pm

Oh, okay. I have to admit that I haven't been to France in 30 years.

But, I'm guessing that truly French McDonald's restaurants offer fine wine rather than sugary American soft drinks, and baguettes.

Plus, your cheeseburgers are probably topped with something other than orange-coloured processed American cheese. Maybe camembert?

And your hamburgers--probably high quality beef or horsemeat?

How do you expect to get fat?

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24 Feb 2010, 12:33 pm

pandabear wrote:

... and still don't put on any weight.

If only

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24 Feb 2010, 1:12 pm

pandabear wrote:

But, I'm guessing that truly French McDonald's restaurants offer fine wine rather than sugary American soft drinks, and baguettes.

No, but you can also drink beer there. But I read somewhere that in France the biggest McDonald's drinkglasse has the same size as the smallest in USA.

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Plus, your cheeseburgers are probably topped with something other than orange-coloured processed American cheese. Maybe camembert?

No.

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And your hamburgers--probably high quality beef or horsemeat?

No.

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How do you expect to get fat?

We are becoming fat. :mrgreen:

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24 Feb 2010, 6:06 pm

Oh come on. I bet you're getting nowhere close to American standards for fatness.

Your average French citizen would probably be considered a waif in the USA, and your fattest Frenchman would probably pass for an average American.

You really need to increase the size of your sugary soft drink portions, if you have any hope of catching up to us.

And, you actually eat orange-coloured processed American cheese?

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24 Feb 2010, 11:19 pm

High fructose corn syrup...you need a corn lobby like we have. Try buying something without the syrup in it, you'll be surprised how hard it is.

Unless you like Matzoh...

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24 Feb 2010, 11:35 pm

Psychopompos wrote:

pandabear wrote:

But, I'm guessing that truly French McDonald's restaurants offer fine wine rather than sugary American soft drinks, and baguettes.

No, but you can also drink beer there. But I read somewhere that in France the biggest McDonald's drinkglasse has the same size as the smallest in USA.

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Plus, your cheeseburgers are probably topped with something other than orange-coloured processed American cheese. Maybe camembert?

No.

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And your hamburgers--probably high quality beef or horsemeat?

No.

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How do you expect to get fat?

We are becoming fat. :mrgreen:

Hard to imagine McDonald offering good quality food. :lol:

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26 Feb 2010, 1:31 pm

American servings are way too big for one to eat. They make virtually no sense. <.<

I am rather average (still have small "love handles" but not even a handful) thankfully, and i haven't eaten any McDo's or fast food in the last past 2 years or so. Eating homemade cooking by my mom is a good way to go. Fresh veggies and all.

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26 Feb 2010, 2:09 pm

Don't you have All-You-Can eat buffets in Montreal?

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26 Feb 2010, 10:21 pm

Their presence does not mean we actually go there yearly... =/ We did go for a small dinner last year after my grand-mom's funeral (with the rest of my maternal family). But otherwise, it's rather rare. I think most of us prefer small restaurants.

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26 Feb 2010, 10:27 pm

My diet consists almost solely of brownies, ice cream, and snackcakes and yet I look anorexic...

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27 Feb 2010, 5:00 pm

Omerik wrote:

That's easier than teaching people to pronounce English sometimes... Hebrew has five phonemic vowels, English has much more, for example. It's difficult to teach those... And it sometimes causes people being understood.

As a linguistic students who LOVES phonetics and phonolgy, I find French phonology easier than the English one. It's that people think they pronounce English correct, but they fail to recognise that they don't. Native English speakers always tell me they notice it...

As a native speaker of neither language, I completely agree. English is very hard to pronounce, harder than French. English is also probably the hardest of all alphabetic languages to read and write. On the other hand, the grammar is pretty straightforward.

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27 Feb 2010, 8:43 pm

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But our suffixes are completely screwed up from all the loanwords.

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27 Feb 2010, 9:36 pm

In terms of grammar, I'm told that English doesn't really have rules--only exceptions.

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28 Feb 2010, 2:15 pm

Tensu wrote:

pbcoll wrote:

But our suffixes are completely screwed up from all the loanwords.

You should see french grammar, a real nightmare... :pale:

It's true that english is hard to prononce, at least I had a lot of difficulty with it. Even today I don't know if I'm OK with that. I do pratice my english reading and writing, but never my speaking; So I don't know.

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01 Mar 2010, 12:48 am

As I remember, English spelling came from trying to use Latin spelling for English words. It came about a long, long time ago...between the 15th-17th Century (not to mention 'the Great Vowel shift' that happened around Elizabethan times'

Supposedly (as I understand it) French printers used to try to 'standardize' each shops' printing in order to havea proprietary standard...

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