Hope you get your fill, readers:
"France battles against bad restaurant food" by LOUISE DEWAST | Jul. 16, 2014
PARIS (AP) — Restaurant-goers in France will start seeing a funny little symbol on their menus this week: a skillet with a house on top, indicating your menu choice is made in-house.
It's part of a new law meant to battle against the surprising amount of factory-made, pre-packaged food in French restaurants, and celebrate the country's culinary traditions.
However, many in the industry say the law doesn't go far enough, because it allows dishes made from frozen, pre-peeled or pre-cut products to count as home-made.
France's chief of consumer affairs, Carole Delga, told The Associated Press that the logo would better inform customers about what they're getting, and highlight restaurants' craftsmanship.
"It's about sending a message that France is a country where we eat well, where we have skills, especially cooking skills," she said. "We wanted to give concrete tools for tourists and for French people, and recognize cooking as an integral part of our French identity."
For the almost last time, I am so, so sick of being sent messages in my paper.
While UNESCO put French cuisine on its World Heritage List in 2010, two recessions in recent years have driven more and more French chefs to resort to pre-packaged food to cut costs. And France is a champion of industrial food, with companies specialized in frozen foods or dishes that can be prepared quickly and look homemade.
That is when my printed Globe got up and left the table.
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See if you can keep this down:
"For Bastille Day, France commemorates World War I" Associated Press July 15, 2014
PARIS — Soldiers carrying the flags of 76 countries marched Monday down the Champs-Elysees in Paris, as France’s traditional Bastille Day military parade commemorated the centenary of World War I.
More war worship, this involving senseless slaughter so the bankers could get rich.
France invited all countries that were involved on the battlefields — former allies and enemies, former colonizers and colonies — to participate altogether in the ceremony as a gesture of peace.
And it only took 100 years, huh?
‘‘Ten million soldiers were killed or died of their injuries on countless battlefields. We owe them gratitude,’’ President Francois Hollande said in a message ahead of the march.
The message took on special meaning amid renewed violence in Gaza and Iraq, and as French troops fight extremists in Africa....
Bastille Day marks the July 14, 1789, storming of the Bastille prison by angry Paris crowds that helped spark the French Revolution.
And it has been turned into a day celebrating the start of a World War? How obscene and perverse!
Of course, the Zionist pre$$ would be celebrating since that war was tied to the Balfour Declaration that began the Zionist theft of Palestinian land.
The memorial ceremony echoed the first celebration of Bastille Day after the end of what was then known as ‘‘The Great War,’’ in 1919.
Let's try to avoid the next one instead, huh?
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They even had their own “Stormin’ Norman.”
Grossman.
Also see: Family of World War I veteran from Vt. gets father’s Purple Heart
Once again, Globe fare tasted like merde.
Related:
Shocking scenes as 150 Jewish men go on rampage in Paris streets and clash with pro-Palestinian demonstrators
Outrage as France become first country in world to ban pro-Palestine demos
Maybe this antacid will help the indigestion.
