Comments on: Frog’s legs

By: petite

petite — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:17:39 +0000

Frog – if you are reading this do not pay any heed to the likes of Watski. The connection is back up, Big Sister is watching you, and any maverick posting will result in a revocation of all bedroom privileges for two weeks.

And I will burn the baaing sheep thong.

mimile and chninkel – I tried to trackback to your posts on this subject but I cannot get that to work. Sorry!

By: Watski

Watski — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:40:12 +0000

Pssst Mr Frog.

The deal here is that you ‘forget’ or ‘mislay’ the post Petite gave you and write the whole lot, warts and all. Here’s your chance, she’s away for 4 days interweb-less and can do nothing about it until it’s too late.

She’ll love you for it. And so will we.

Have a good time Petite.

By: emilie [mimile]

emilie [mimile] — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:39:34 +0000

Thanks for that!
In france I was chain smoking and thin. Extra thin. Because I DIDN’T EAT. that what we do, from the tender ager of 15 or 16. French girls chain smoke, they don’t eat.
Now I’m in England. I have been there a few years. Now I’m proud to be a non-smoker, and the proud owner of a pair of rather large “hips”. Because here, nobody looks at me in a funny way if I have nan bread with my chicken korma….

By: Cecile

Cecile — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:05:24 +0000

love the teapot!

By: Chninkel

Chninkel — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:07:38 +0000

For the radish ritual, yes, that how my parents taught me to eat these things “in a proper way”.
We have plenty of fancy (and mostly puzzling) food rituals. Check how we’re supposed to eat “les ortolans”: http://www.coldbacon.com/food/ortolan.html

By: witho

witho — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:30:24 +0000

Oh thank you for saying that p’tite! I couldn’t believe what I was reading either. Every French woman I met over there was completely fanatical about dieting! And there were plenty of overweight French women too, in my circle.

My ex-Frog used to do that radish thing – except his was a little more elaborate – he would cut a cross into the top of the radish and insert thin slices of butter in the cross, then dip in salt. It was the most bizarre food ritual I’ve witnessed!

By: Chameleon

Chameleon — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:37:44 +0000

Whereas the Observer article was indeed amusing, demonstrating that cultural factors act as behaviour determinants it did neglect to address one of the crucial differences between British workplace culture and that which prevails elsewhere in Europe: office (and other) employees in the UK are expected to work longer hours (for lesser financial rewards) than their continental counterparts – snack food consumption encouraged by criminally short lunch breaks – scoffing calorie-laden sandwiches by the computer screen.

By: vitriolica

vitriolica — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:05:06 +0000

I don’t know what to say… I am horribly jealous that you own a frog who dances to the scissor sisters in a chinese dress! mine hasn’t even heard of the scissor sisters (nor, obviously, is he a frog). have lovely chips for me… with ~~puke~~ curry sauce on top! yumola. once a decade anyway.

By: backroads

backroads — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:37:22 +0000

M Grenouille

I feel that you should treat p a to a PDA so she can blog on the hoof. She’d get it cheap in the Duty Free. You know you want to.