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Post by Qualerei on Nov 15, 2006 16:48:02 GMT -5
Thank you, I did. My friend's a great cook, but that's also a lot of work. We cooked spinach leaves, (and that takes an awfully long time to wash said leaves) with veal escalope and mushrooms with cream, and rice with fried onions. That was great. Hmm, well, okay, we *also* did eat a pizza. Here. My Frenchiness is quickly deserting me. lol.
We had a walk in Paris too - gosh I hate the metro - and we stopped by Gibert, a chain of libraries, that's pretty nice. I found two vinyls there, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, and two books in English, and one book about drawing. And I talked a lot with my friend too. Pity I can see her hardly once a year, although we're at least both in the same country (it's worse with my brother and father).
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Post by Desert Stallion on Nov 17, 2006 14:31:31 GMT -5
Gaasp!! You went over to the Italians? ;)I wonder if European pizzas are made the same as American pizzas. Back to Rommel's personal life, but staying on food, I wonder if he liked sauerkraut (sauerbraten). If he did, that's one thing we wouldn't have agreed with. (Schultz would have though.) Some of that German food is pretty interesting. But then, German baked pastries are delicious. I guess every nationality has its good and bad food.
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Post by Qualerei on Nov 18, 2006 16:50:31 GMT -5
Except France. France only has great food... uh, sorry. Seems like my Frenchiness' coming back.
European pizzas... well, they're pretty much the same. We put cheese, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, meat, sausage, jam, that kind of stuff. Only, American pizzas are actually better than Europeans. Thicker, with more stuff on them.
As for German pastries, they do seem pretty good. What was that thing Le Beau cooked ? Ah, yeah, strudel. As for sauerkraut, if that's what I think it is (we call it a different name) I don't like it either. But by 1944, Rommel probably ate a lot of ersatz. Urgh. Wonder if Lucie was a good cook...
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Post by Desert Stallion on Nov 18, 2006 17:10:58 GMT -5
Sauerkraut is fermented cabbage, I think, or something equally nasty. In the U.S., you can get really thick pizzas, two to three inches, or really flat pizzas, 1/4 inch, heh heh. We call those cardboard pizzas. One brand is appropriately labeled, Tombstone Pizzas. I personally wonder why anyone would eat such a thing.
That reminds me of a food-and-Rommel incident I read about in the Desert Fox book by Young. Hold on a second...
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Post by Qualerei on Nov 18, 2006 17:48:17 GMT -5
In France, most pizzas are really thin, except when you buy frozen stuff, or if you make them yourself. Which my mother does, but I don't have her patience - I buy the frozen stuff.
Tombstone pizza ? Well, at least, they give you fair warning.
Food and Rommel incident, uh ? He probably ate a lot of sand, poor fox... I mean, each time there was some wind, he was certain to get sand in his meals...
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Post by Desert Stallion on Nov 18, 2006 18:09:18 GMT -5
Here's Rommel's real feelings on the Italians. From Desmond Young's The Desert Fox...
"Food, Rommel had never cared much about. He was quite content to set off for a day in the desert with a small packet of sandwiches or a tin of sardines and a piece of bread. Once he invited an Italian general to lunch with him in the open. 'It was rather awkward,' he remarked afterwards: 'I had only three slices of bread and they were all stale. Never mind, they eat too much.'"
I think that's great.
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Post by Qualerei on Nov 18, 2006 18:14:59 GMT -5
How could he carry on with three pieces of stale bread for a meal ? (if he had eggs and milk, he could make lost bread...) Didn't his orderly take care of him ? Well, here comes another pic idea...
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Post by Desert Stallion on Nov 18, 2006 18:22:58 GMT -5
I suppose his orderly tried, but Rommel was just too hard on himself.
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Post by Qualerei on Nov 18, 2006 18:29:17 GMT -5
Yeah. How could he ? I know *I* get mad when I see a piece of chocolate. Maybe his orderly force-fed him from time to time...
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Post by Desert Stallion on Nov 18, 2006 18:30:53 GMT -5
Now that would be a picture! ;D
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Post by Qualerei on Nov 18, 2006 18:33:56 GMT -5
Oh my... now you put this very nasty picture involving Rommel, his orderly, food and a funnel, in my already twisted mind...
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Post by Desert Stallion on Nov 18, 2006 18:35:46 GMT -5
Sorry. ;D
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Post by Qualerei on Nov 18, 2006 18:45:44 GMT -5
On the other hand, I can understand him. I doubt he saw much chocolate in Africa. And then, eating stalebread with sand on it must be pretty disgusting. Doubt he'd be so hungry anymore after that...
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Post by Desert Stallion on Nov 25, 2006 19:30:20 GMT -5
I read somewhere once that he received chocolate in packages from his fan girls back in Germany, but that it didn't do so well in the heat. Stuff was probably stuck to the perfumed envelopes.
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Post by Qualerei on Nov 25, 2006 20:21:47 GMT -5
From his what ? He had fan girls in Germany ? Now I know someone who probably wasn't very happy about that, lol.
Yeah, chocolate is better cold. I keep it in my fridge, actually. It takes longer to thaw, so I can enjoy it longer.
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