July 28, 2005
Pass the butter…
I’ve noticed something about France that’s really freaking me out: There are no fat people! It’s actually a bit disconcerting. Even the slightly overweight here are still about half of a Detroit resident. I think I might understand why, as I’ve spent a good portion of the last two days walking around, and it seems no places (even the customer we visited) have air conditioning, so you sweat it all out. But still, it does really make me want to hit the gym.
But I was very happy to see that our pop culture has found its way over here. That and McDonald’s and we’ll have these folks pushing lard-asses around to rival our own. I’d love to know the literal translation of “Serial Noceurs”…
And I don’t know why, but this picture makes me look like a lard-ass. Maybe these thin people are turning me anorexic. Lord knows I could use it. Something tells me, though, that maybe America just grows our people bigger, because everyone here seems short… Not as short as when I went to Taiwan, but tiny nonetheless.
Which all reminds me of a joke (credit to JimmyJ, as he did tell me this one):
The Chinese eat a lot more vegetables, less fat, less meat, and live longer than Americans.
The French eat a lot more fat, cream, butter, and live longer than Americans.
So eat whatever the heck you want, it’s speaking English that kills you!
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Hey, Who you calling a “Lard-ass”? I think we American’s just don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. McDonald’s is easy for our fast paced life and they have “french” fries. Ha Ha.
The French probably get more excerise too, we sit at our computers and blog too much. Get to work Boy.
I went to four different websites that claim to offer french to English translations and none of them could offer any information about “Serial Noceurs”.
About the cuisine: what I’ve heard about the french is that they’re really into portion control. The frogs probably call it moderation, which Americans have trouble with, admittedly.