With fronds like these, who needs anemones?
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The ones organised by the Foyer Rural started to make a huge effort - so there would be a tray marked for OH. Which was even worse! Well meant but made him feel like a leper. We no longer attend.
I’ve also suffered in Bavaria. Once, the only vegetarian item a hotel could offer was potato salad. When it arrived, it was at least 20% ham 
. “Es ist kein Fleisch” was the explanation on that occasion too!
An experience from many years ago in Dublin:
“Do you have anything vegetarian?”
“Yes - there’s a vegetarian omelette.”
(Oh well, boring but reliable…)
“And what does that have in it?”
“I think it’s mainly ham and cheese and things like that.”
“Great. Just a green salad please …”
When it arrived it was indeed green salad. With chicken.
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Wonderfully Officer Crabtree
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As someone who suffers from the opposite of FOMO this really made me smile.
FOFO = fear of finding out you want to leave and have to wait at least another hour…
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We had an entirely different experience some years ago when my adult son was a vegetarian. We had a family meal booked at our local bar. They weren’t a resto but Paulette would put on a meal if requested and booked in advance. We told her at the outset that Davey was a veggie and she said ‘ok, I’ll see what I can do’. When we arrived there was a wonderful spread for all of us and for Davey a large tray of delicious and varied entirely vegetarian food.
We were touched, all of us, that she had taken on board something that was culturally alien to her and gone to a lot of trouble to meet his needs.
Sorry @JaneJones but I fail to understand why anyone should feel insulted or discomforted in the face of such consideration.
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He didn’t feel insulted, but dislikes fuss.
Well said, my sentiments entirely,there are very many expats who have lived in France for many years but never the less speak very / understand little French ,it seems somewhat pointless to contribute to a English language forum in any other language other than English
Pork knuckles in Munich, wonderful.
Are they crunchy?
Not very.
What’s that deep fried pig’s trotter (leg?) thing then?
Yep, when things starts to fall apart we just want to go home
Pied de porc à la Ste Ménéhould or even better jokbal which is delicious crunchy juicy umami Korean pig trotters.
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But I live at home.
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Just been reading on one of my french news reports this morning that the authorities here MAY bring in compulsory medicals and a test for la code de la route for all drivers of 65 upwards due to the many recent accidents by drivers in their 80’s plus. This will cause a few brits headaches when they have to reply in french with the code and/or even possibly a driving exam too! As I mentioned above, it MAY be introduced and I know there have been rumblings about this for some time on the news.
One of my favourites, that method also works well with queue de bœuf and poitrine d’agneau. With the latter I order a whole poitrine usually only around €8! He’ll split it for me then I divide it into four slabs and braise gently. When they’re cool enough to handle, the ribs are squeezed out and the meat left to set in its own jelly overnight. Cut into strips the next day, dab of mustard, egg and breadcrumbs and finished on a hot grill.
Can feed many for little expense.
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Some group clearly has an agenda to push this or similar. There are actually a far greater number of accidents where 18-25 year olds are involved and more likely to be the party at fault than in any older group. Lifting the agè being looked at to a few more years above 25 the picture still remains worse for accident-proneness for younger drivers.
Auto-moto.com and other sources have published these facts and figures previously when whoever’s pushing this tried last time. The true figures say if you want to point the finger at those appearing more in accidents then statistically start with young men in particular and the young end of the age sprectrum generally.
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