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2013-10-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Oktoberfest Revellers Guzzle two Olympic Pools of Beer
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Posted by Fred 2013-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Beer, Boobs, Beef + Brats [bratwurst].

French cooking is good, but w-a-y too expensive for the portions they serve.

D *** NG IT, WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR ... ... ... ... OH YEAH - *HIC* - NOW I REMEMBER *BUUURRRPP* , AND IT TAINT OVER NOW!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-10-08 00:06||   2013-10-08 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't like the swimming pool image.

Makes me think of the silent "p" in swim.
Posted by no mo uro 2013-10-08 05:07||   2013-10-08 05:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Way too much foam.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-08 05:13||   2013-10-08 05:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey! I was there five years ago and it was the BEST BEER I EVER TASTED. It was SO good, I insisted Mrs. Bobby take a sip (she hates beer) and she said, "Not bad, for beer."
Posted by Bobby 2013-10-08 07:51||   2013-10-08 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Oktoberfest Revellers Guzzle filter two Olympic Pools of Beer through their kidneys

Consider it an old German version of crowd sourcing.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-08 08:17||   2013-10-08 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 French cooking is good, but w-a-y too expensive for the portions they serve

Pulease. Don't judge French cooking by the cooks chefs we deport who open a restauranty in the United Sates. Go toi about any village in flyover France and you can eat very, very well both in quantity and quality for less than one portion of raped carrots in one of those thieves lairs embassies of French cuisine in America.
Posted by JFM 2013-10-08 10:49||   2013-10-08 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 JFM, wonderful post!
Posted by Glenmore 2013-10-08 11:18||   2013-10-08 11:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Hear, hear, JFM!
Posted by Bobby 2013-10-08 12:00||   2013-10-08 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Two oops about my posts:

The sentence "Cooks we deport to the United States" should have read "crooks we deport to the United States"

and it should have been a "a portion of grated carrots" instead of "a portion of raped carrots" (in French it is carottes rapées)
Posted by JFM 2013-10-08 12:03||   2013-10-08 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Seriously. One day on TV there were a bunch of New-Yorkers, not actors, real people, from the "made a lot of money by buying dot com shares" who were talking about the French restaurant they were going to and my impression was that this guy was a crook who using the was relieving from their money a bunch of new rich who would have been unable to distinguish a low-end hamburger from a poularde demi-deuil.

But since these people vote Democrat I think he should be given a medal.
Posted by JFM 2013-10-08 12:12||   2013-10-08 12:12|| Front Page Top

#11 JFM is on fire today. As for "raped carrots", it is probably just as descriptive and a whole lot funnier. Made my day!
Posted by SteveS 2013-10-08 12:35||   2013-10-08 12:35|| Front Page Top

#12 JFM, we'll take your cooks. But we have enough crooks already running our government, thank you very much.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-10-08 12:57||   2013-10-08 12:57|| Front Page Top

#13 You tell 'em, JFM!

And you're right - I didn't like Paris (too big-city-ish - but great museums), but once we got outside the city, France is just like a normal country. The regular French people were nice, too (don't get me started about snooty French waiters in snobby restaurants, both there and here). ;-p
Posted by Barbara 2013-10-08 13:55||   2013-10-08 13:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Perhaps I didn't get far enough away from Geneva for the lower prices to kick in. Something about 30 euros per person made me clutch my shrinking wallet and look for an open grocery store instead. (Wonderful bread)
But when I did eat out, the portions were plentiful and I didn't get flack for my threadbare French.
Posted by James  2013-10-08 14:52|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2013-10-08 14:52|| Front Page Top

#15 I had some of the best meals ever, when driving through France. (although I had some equally nice ones in Italy, too - I thought the roadside food in Italy had a much better chance of being better than roadside food in France, at least in the mid-1980s.
Some of the best was at tiny two-star hotels like this one in Blois. Pt. 1 -
Part 2 - here
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