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What comes to your mind when you think of France?

weaver2 said:
French waiters in Paris are not professionally reserved, they are just snotty.
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There's a business opportunity there, if that is correct.

Need to really impress a client and so you pick a very expensive place where your research team has found the waiters are like that and you have a staff go there and get a work schedule from the chief waiter and set up a reception for you when you show up with your client.

"How good to see you here again. You'll have the same seat?" Then the serving waiter also adds great praise to see you, and your possible client knows this place and is quite impressed.

I'm no longer in a situation where this idea could be useful, but maybe the IGS will pick this up and post it and some person can benefit from the idea. Or somebody in this Community.

IGS = Investigator Google Search
 
Allan said:
You won't find a an American style "hi my name is Bill and I'll be taking care of you!!!" server in France.
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I'm not a fan of "Hi, my name is Bill and I'll be taking care of you" either. What's wrong with "Good evening, are you ready to order?"
 
noonereal said:
I know of no quality restaurant that serves large portions. None, zero, zilch.

I doubt you and I eat at the same type places.

French fries are not French.
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French fries is from Belgium
 
A rather large country to have to drive through to get somewhere less unwelcoming.
 
I think of my DIL, she's from France...
 
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Pretentious food, and Celine Diones magnificent performance this past year.
 
I’m literal. A blessing and a curse.

So you say “France” to me I think,”Land mass in Europe bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain, and Andorra.“.

I know, like I said…
 
The military tyranny of the French kitchen, as written by a former too-young sous.
 
My father's birth-place - although he was from a Cornish naval family.
 
Hmmm...

I seem to have missed this thread last month. No problem.

To be honest, I rarely even think of France, but when I do, there's always two things that come to mind and they are both things from my visit to Paris back in the mid-80's.

The first is when my wife and I went up the Eiffel Tower. There was a snack bar counter and I went to get a couple of drinks. So, I held up two fingers (like this ) and said "Cola". Well, the lady said something like, "No, No, like this." and she held up her thumb and index finger. Now, she wasn't trying to gently instruct me on the proper way to hold my fingers. Her attitude was, "Dumbass Americans!! They don't know anything!" Because of her snotty attitude, I almost told her to forget it, but we were thirsty. It just pissed me off that someone who is making money off of tourists would treat their customers that way.

The second is when we went to a restaurant for dinner. As someone here mentioned, the portions are small. Tiny, even. Heck, in Germany, you order a dinner and you get FULL. Not in France. Of course, now...40 years later...I eat much smaller meals and that French dinner would have been just fine. But the other bad thing was the price. Forty years ago, I thought it was way overpriced. I can only imagine how much it costs now.

Anyway, those are the things that first come to mind when I think of France. After that, I think about everything else from that trip. The art, the history, etc. It was great. I guess it's too bad that one person and a restaurant had to almost ruin the trip.
 
Great food and wine.

History

Funky cars (Citreons)

An eagerness to hold their government accountable for their freedoms.
 
Decadence, artistic, as defined here:

French Decadence | COVE

Decadence is a literary movement especially of the late 19th-century France and England characterized by refined aestheticism, artifice, and the quest for new sensations. It first emerged in France in the mid-19th century before spreading to the rest of Europe. For France and England, the end of...
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And also the general French cultural and historical reputation for decadence as lowbrow pleasure-seeking.

But French aid to the American Revolution also frequently comes to mind;
a benefit to us [America] but not so much to France as it bankrupted their government which helped trigger the French revolution.
 
did you ever try that?
 
The Parisian waiters and sales people are snotty. I focus on the nice people I met in the countryside and the fun of being on my own bicycling where ever I wanted to go.
 
Surrender Monkeys.
 
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