lowermarshhammer
12:07 Sun Aug 26
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Paris Syndrome is a well known mental disorder that affects female Japanese tourists who have built up a romantic image of Paris in their minds.
Upon arrival and finding it to be a bit of a 'trou de merde'
and that some French people are a bit, er, French in their ways and manners, these tourists break down and can't cope.
About 20 a year have to be rescued by the embassy.
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lowermarshhammer
12:01 Sun Aug 26
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Took the parents in law there for a few nights 10 years ago.
Walking down the road at one point they had fallen back a few metres behind me and the mrs.
That distance separation was enough for two middle aged middle eastern looking types to think that they could get away with impersonating non uniform gendarmes and demand to see the passport and wallet of a doddery elderly Japanese bloke.
Fortunately turned round in time and ran back to inform these chancers to piss off. One of the cheeky arabs then asked for directions. Le grand cunt.
Apart from that it was OK. Just a bit French. Touristy stuff is great. Some of it is a proper fucking shithole as well. Like London.
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bruuuno
11:42 Sun Aug 26
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..best
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bruuuno
11:42 Sun Aug 26
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As I say will, biggest doesn't mesn
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mashed in maryland
11:42 Sun Aug 26
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Bruu
It surprised me tbh. The shit you read in guidebooks and on travel websites can be so inaccurate, i honestly reckon most of them are written by people who never go and are just copying what older guidebooks were saying 20 years ago.
Think the worst service/manners I've ever encountered was in Thailand. "The land of smiles" ffs.
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AKA ERNIE
11:41 Sun Aug 26
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cheese fuck off
Paris is like any big city some stunning bits and some shit bits.
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Willtell
11:38 Sun Aug 26
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Your ignorance knows no bounds bruuuno. I don't argue with idiots anymore so just look up the different cheese types. There are apparently 8 basic types from which the French have a thousand different varieties.
Apart from Cheddar and Stilton plus a few variants and some obscure craft cheeses Britain doesn't produce a fraction or consume a fraction of French cheeses and they aren't the biggest. Germany is apparently...
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bruuuno
11:37 Sun Aug 26
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mashed in maryland 11:20 Sun Aug 26
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Agreed, I found the Parisians to be nice and friendly to me. Prefer them to the sarky smart are Dutch
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lab
11:37 Sun Aug 26
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Yes ,black bomber is v good, not come across Baron bigod.
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Golden Oldie
11:36 Sun Aug 26
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Are any of these famous cheeses from Paris?
I hear Paris now is more famous for their mean line in jenkum, which seriously contests London's regional finest.
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Nurse Ratched
11:33 Sun Aug 26
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They not only imitate brie, they make it better.
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bruuuno
11:32 Sun Aug 26
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Will your stats are meaningless. Just because a country has a larger cheese industry and exports a lot of cheese to clueless Americans doesn't really mean anything. Of those cheeses that are exported probably the majority consists of one type. So you can say the French make the best camambert.
I had a few Italian and French mates giving it large about their cheese a while back. Ended up giving them a selection of English cheeses without them knowing their origin. The were shocked when I told them afterwards the fromage they ate wasnt French or Italian and agreed that they wouldn't be able to find such a diverse range of flavours in their home countries.
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Willtell
11:31 Sun Aug 26
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Nurse
Bloody copycat cheese is Baron Bigod! How dare they use French cows' milk and imitate Brie. Even claims that in its blurb -
"It is the only traditional raw milk Brie-de-Meaux style cheese produced in the UK. In fact, even the French would be jealous, as our cheese is one of only a handful of its type in the world to be made by the farmer on the farm and can genuinely be called a true farmhouse Brie."
Blimey Nurse we have a choice of several different farmhouse Bries from our cheese man that would make your eyes water with delight....
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Nurse Ratched
11:30 Sun Aug 26
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Tunworth, you can sometimes find in Waitrose, but it's usually sold out. So Neals Yard is more reliable. Or one of the online cheese shops.
Baron Bigod, I only found very recently in Shrewsbury where they have a brilliant couple of delis (Appleyards and a stall whose name I can't remember, in the Market Hall). Both stock the Baron. I imagine Neals or an online cheese shop will sell it. Never seen it in a supermarket. I bought and ate a skipful of the stuff over my visits to Shrewsbury.
Oh, and try Black Bomber cheddar.
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Nurse Ratched
11:23 Sun Aug 26
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Buy what, Coffee? The cheese I mentioned?
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Coffee
11:21 Sun Aug 26
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Nurse Ratched 11:01 Sun Aug 26
Where do you buy them?
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mashed in maryland
11:20 Sun Aug 26
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Also didn't notice the thing about the French being rude, at all.
Level of service wasn't bad at all.
In fact a lot of bar staff seemed to make a lot of effort, starting conversations, asking where you're from etc., probably just wanted to practice their English.
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Nurse Ratched
11:17 Sun Aug 26
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Again, Willtell, this is good news from the perspective of discerning cheese eaters in on the 'secret'.
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mashed in maryland
11:13 Sun Aug 26
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Was there a few months back.
Very much like London in a lot of ways.
Decent nightlife, very busy, loads of bars/cafes for chilling out in, loads of shopping centres etc worth checking out even if its just to wander round and "take in". And the Eiffel tower and all that as well, obviously.
Also dirty, armed police everywhere, and fucking loads of homeless (tent cities etc.). And expect to be approached by yoots in leather jackets offering to assist you in some way at Metro stations if you look like you're struggling a bit.
It's well worth a visit but don't expect the pristine romantic ideal you see in old films.
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Willtell
11:09 Sun Aug 26
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Britain comes nowhere in the cheese eating tables...in spite of Baron Bigod!
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-consume-the-most-cheese.html
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Nurse Ratched
11:02 Sun Aug 26
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Willtell.
Great news. We'll keep most of it here for us.
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