> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 03:14 PM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: RE: Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream (was RE: Commentary on
> French-bashing)
>
>
> At 14:44 14-03-03 -0800, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
>
> >Trivia - the potato chip was actually invented in France by
> a cook who
> >had
> >an American (or was it british..) customer who kept sending
> back his fried
> >potato dish, demanding thinner and thinner slices of potato..
>
> Ah! So *that* is why the French and the Americans don't seem to get
> along! <GRIN>
>
> Should have known better than to anger a French chef... :-)
I worked for an Australian chef in culinary school[0] who I would never, ever, ever
want to cross.
-j-
[0] before I decided that the BS attitude of most chefs ("you will chop vegetables
until I deem you worthy to chop fruit, which you will do until I decide you may slice
bread, which you will do until I decide you are worthy of boiling water..") killed any
ambition I had in the field
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