Chubby people live longest: Japan study

[Le Rosbif]

Oh yes - I once heard that if you opened up a Frenchman you could drive a train through his arteries and use his liver as a door stop.

Cirrhosis is a big killer over the Channel...

Well depends in which region.

In Normandy, the food is very rich and buttery.
People in Britanny are well known boozers.
In the south west and south east the food is much more balanced and mediterranean.

I know it must be hard for british people to get out of the stereotype but you surely can understand that people in Nice or Marseille have a different lifestyle than people in Lille, Brest or Paris?

[Moscow Mule]

I know it must be hard for british people to get out of the stereotype but you surely can understand that people in Nice or Marseille have a different lifestyle than people in Lille, Brest or Paris?

You do know that it's cold in Scotland & warm in Cornwall?

[Mich the Tester]

Well depends in which region.

In Normandy, the food is very rich and buttery.
People in Britanny are well known boozers.
In the south west and south east the food is much more balanced and mediterranean.

I know it must be hard for british people to get out of the stereotype but you surely can understand that people in Nice or Marseille have a different lifestyle than people in Lille, Brest or Paris?

The basques make the best sausages.

[Le Rosbif]

The basques make the best sausages.

Well, how about "la sausisse de toulouse"?
That's the one you get in Cassoulet (the meal which makes you fart for 24h non stop)

[Moscow Mule]

The basques make the best sausages.

Who'd have thought lingerie would be capable of charcuterie? Technology today is amazing!!!

[Le Rosbif]

Who'd have thought lingerie would be capable of charcuterie? Technology today is amazing!!!

I take it you call "berets basques" only "basques" in English?

(or is Moscow Donkey just ignorant?)

[Mich the Tester]

Well, how about "la sausisse de toulouse"?
That's the one you get in Cassoulet (the meal which makes you fart for 24h non stop)

Very good, but I'm afraid the Basques win on the sausage making front. Of course, the English make one or two excellent sausages too; try a Lincolnshire Sausage. Not the crap from the supermarket, but from a good butcher.

Some day in the future I hope to tour Europe and compile a bumper book of the greatest European sausages with accompanying wines and beers.

Some day when I'm not dependent on making any money out of it, that is.

[Mich the Tester]

I take it you call "berets basques" only "basques" in English?

(or is Moscow Donkey just ignorant?)

No, the berets are called berets, and the ladies underwear corsets are called basques.

[Moscow Mule]

(or is Moscow Donkey just ignorant?)

Come on here, flouting your Frenchie ways, and fail to understand British humour? Why I oughta...

(Strangely, I have a sudden hankering for Tartiflette)

[Le Rosbif]

Of course, the English make one or two excellent sausages too;
.

That's an euphemism!
I've tried loads of different English sausages that I get from the borough market or from farms when I visit the country side.
I think it's actually a proper English Specialty.