Interesting read. Thanks
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I didn’t read this in the comment, just a statement of fact that they don’t offer one?
Did I say they should? But surely this hospitality trade is about being hospitable, and welcoming to the market you wish to target. So their narrow minded approach tells me I am not welcome ( I do eat meat, but rarely).
They’d make more money too, meat is more expensive.
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The fact that Hitler was a vegetarian seems to confirm this.
Surely the important point is to consider why more and more people seem to be joining, or at least in sympathy with, the more extreme movements towards both ends of the political spectrum.
Perhaps the more traditional centrist leaning parties would do well to look to their laurels and consider why their supporters are drifting away to the extremities.
One could perhaps have a novel approach whereby politicians actually represent the views of the people that elected them, rather than telling the electorate what to think.
The issues that are important to many people today are not easy to deal with, immigration for example, but failing to deal effectively with their concerns is bound to lead to a rise in extremism. Many French people in my neck of the woods are seriously concerned that France is slowly losing it’s identity, not least as regards to freedom of speech. They feel constrained into silence by the establishment that doesn’t deal with the problems they perceive to exist, and so they will tend to gravitate towards the extremes.
The way to prevent the rise of the extremes is to provide sound, effective, and responsive centrist government.
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You obviously misread my message (and the ones before).
Canon Français is precisely not a restaurant.
I completely agree with this, although I just don’t understand where they get the feeling they’ve lost freedom of speech. As we said before, people now feel free to openly express the most disgusting racist opinions, homophobia, masculinism; calls to murder and rape are now commonplace on social media, and yet they feel oppressed if anybody lashes out. TV and Facebook have a lot to answer for, and so does Macron and Sarkozy before him, who totally ignored the EU referendum (Sarko) and the results of the legislative elections (Macron). And now they have just reintroduced Acetamipride through the Senate, ignoring the 2 million people who petitioned against it, along with the scientific consensus.
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Many people today tend to prefer not to speak honestly about how they feel in relation to certain things for fear of being allocated an unpleasant label.
They might like to speak about how they feel in relation to the happenings in Gaza, but they keep silent lest they be labelled as Anti-Semitic.
They keep silent about the other residents of their street becoming more and more North African, lest they be labelled Racist.
They don’t speak openly about how they feel about increasing numbers of women in their neighbourhood wearing head to toe robes because that would make them Islamophobic.
These people increasingly feel that they cannot speak freely about these things, and that effectively they are being told not to express their honest feelings. Thus they feel that their freedom of speech is being eroded.
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Many people have a shorter attention span and not much ability to deal with frustration or difficulty, they are less good at critical thinking and more ill-informed, which makes them socially inept and less tolerant. At the same time they are shown more and more material stuff to aspire to and their sense of entitlement means they feel constantly aggrieved. That’s exactly the sort of profile that is attracted to populism and demagoguery.
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Simples, IMO, social media. Divide and conquer is the mantra today and SM makes targeting the middle ground so, so easy.
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Not “usually”, but “in part” (Fraternité Saint Pie X)
You’ve spent too much time with Americans if you’re offended by
the fact that pork is eaten widely in France
people wearing berets
people wearing “suspenders”
people eating together, in a sort of nod to the (more limited in membership) confreries (you have heard of those, haven’t you?)
nostalgia, redefined as “cultural appropriation”, especially by people who are richer than you
patrimoine
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I’m offended by some schools offering no alternative to pork. I’m all for heritage and tradition but we are now in 21st century. Religious wars have caused so much harm in the world that it would be good to learn a few lessons about tolerance.
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Yes, schools are different. But the meat needs to be Halal, of course: is that readily available in France? You’re more likely to know that I am, I think.
I remember when we ran a lunch club in NE England, most of our guests were Muslim, and had been trained always to ask for the vegetarian option because they couldn’t be sure burgers, for example, were Halal. We had to go to a Halal butcher some 20 miles away to buy our beef and chicken (the budget didn’t run to lamb!), but it was great to be able to reassure them that they could eat the burgers.
I’m not sure I’m OK with the Halal Slaughtering Method, in fact I know I’m not. I guess all slaughtering is barbaric but Halal is extremely so. All these religious rituals are bunkum IMO.
Anyway..
Seems they’re goose steppers are out in Castres these days too. This time with a bit pf cultural censorship.
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I agree with you.
But ordinary French methods - carbon dioxide to stun - are pretty horrible too.
It’s one area I think I’d very happily flour the law and take the consequences: if I found someone who killed chickens by hand for sale, I’d buy there, and abandon red meat.
I happily eat game.
My first cooking lesson at school! After you had caught it.
There are millions of Muslims in France. Even the teeny town we used to live in had a Turkish butcher and Halal meat.
The very sensible (to my mind ) proposal for all schools to offer a vegetarian option would solve all problems. Many more enlightened ones do of course.
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I’ve hit a nerve again, sorry. You need to read the previous messages again. I don’t remember saying I was upset about pork being eaten, I love pork too much.
As far as the rest of the list is concerned, maybe you haven’t spent enough time in France to see the political agenda behind these banquets, and how the far-right has evolved by infiltrating all sides of our society. It’s charming but very naive to think that Canon Français have anything to do with nostalgia, their customers are mainly under 30 and have never lived in beret-wearing France. I have.
Having grown up in rural Normandy in a family of restaurant owners, I am indeed familiar with all sorts of confréries - Boudin in Mortagne, Andouille in Vire, Tripes in Caen, Camembert… in Camembert. My dad was even part of the Confrérie des amateurs de vapeurs at some stage (Steam engines). Shall I mention I am part of the Confrérie des peintres officiels des armées? Yes.
Not quite sure why you mention people who are richer than me - I don’t think I mentioned anything like this, and I am quite happy with my personal circumstances.
You know what I am talking about. This is exactly what CF people don’t want.
As the Perigueux Maire says… someone asked to hire the Salle and that’s that. Politics don’t come into it.
If they do anything illegal during the first event, the second will be automatically cancelled.
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If one pulls up images of previous Canon Français events you might see a resemblance to a bunch of Brown Shirts in German bierkellers. Ok so the bierkeller putsch failed first time but the nazi ideology was fuelled by men eating and drinking en masse.
(Not really directed at you, just appeared this way)
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