Friday, July 13, 2007

Paris Post #3, food in France

I thought I would go ahead and explain how strange food is in France for you all. For any given meal there are a few options.

First just bread. This seems to be a crowd favorite hear, and I see many people sitting in the park just eating bread. I must admit I have indulged myself in a giant loaf of bread or two while here.

Second, you could go to a restaurant, and pay like €17-25 for your meal. I have stayed away from this, having not yet ate a in a restaurant while here.

Your third option is my favorite, grocery stores sell prepackaged sandwiches for like €3-4, while this is a huge rip off, its cheaper than a restaurant, and better than just bread. The only issue is that they only sell pork, or veggie, so Ive eaten a lot of veggie sandwiches.

Your fourth option is trusty McDonald's, I have gone to McDonald's while here, and its weird. I know that people in America are fat, but in France most people at McDonald's order this golden meal which is your favorite value meal plus a six piece McNugget, it crazy, isn't the sandwich and fries enough? Needles to say, when in France, I also ordered myself Golden meal, and immediately after felt sick.

This brings me to my last observation on french food, candy bars are not sold individually, they are sold in packs of three. This is brilliant. Most people eat all three at a time, and don't even flinch. Even in vending machines, they are only sold in these three packs, again needless to say yesterday I had myself three Snickers bars.

Anyway, I just thought people would want to know what I'm eating, so that was a pretty good run down on my daily consumptions while in France. In two day Ill b in Belgium;, and I plan to eat nothing but waffles, so lets see how that works out.

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