dave weil a écrit :
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:40:28 +0200, Lionel
wrote:


Bob Morein a écrit :


So maybe this will backfire. Lionelle, do the French really want credit for
this food, which is responsible for so many heart attacks?




Oh sure I will not claim for that... because first patato come from
America.


Well, sort of. South America.


Parmentier brought it in is luggage.


Wrong nationality. Try Spanish.


So I let USA the responsability of all those deaths... ;-)
...Just like tobacco.


Better blame the Aztecs.

Hope you have a nice potato pancake for breakfast...

PS, speaking of Parmentier, what would French cuisine be without
vichyssoise?

Thank you Dave and S888.

In France we use to say that Americans don't know european, history,
geography... I guess that the problem come from here.
Anyway your theories are to much revisionist for me and I will keep my
national heros :

* Parmentier for the patato
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11506a.htm

* Nicot for the tobacco
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Nicot