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Hot potato 1-2-3 (30.9.02)

At our soirée raclette this weekend, I learned that the French are taught that to speak English, you have to pretend you have a great big potato in your mouth. I can sort of see how this would work, but I don't find it particularly flattering or effective.

The nice thing about this revelation, however, is that it creates a nice code word for anglophones. When we were walking around the grounds of La Grande Chartreuse yesterday, Françoise turned and whispered to me "Attention, il y a de grosses patates qui arrivent" when the people behind us passed us, speaking English. So now I will be à la chasse aux grosses patates à Vichy.

srah - Saturday, 5 October 2002 - 11:59 AM
Tags: food, french

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