dave weil a écrit :

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:56:33 +0200, in rec.audio.opinion you wrote:


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


Ummmm, yes. But he got the potato from the Spanish, who brought it
from Peru. So, the first potato came from Peru by the Spanish.


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


You forget Raleigh. Sir Walter.

Oh, you're talking about who brought this stuff to *France*. OK. Then
you know whose graves to defile. At least it's not Jim Morrison's.

Hell, you're fighting the wrong battles. You should be taking credit
for the automobile, right? Or is that something that you're ashamed
of? g


I never go to "Pére-Lachaise", I don't have any pleasure in deads' cult.

I don't fight anything...
.... in this era of hard nationalist behaviours I do like everybody, I
stud myself to few patriotic "certitudes". ;-)