0n (12 Sep 06) George Pope wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 GP> On (12 Sep 06) Cindy Haglund wrote to Malte Schmidt...
 CH> CH> to be credited for everything anyway! 
 GP>  CH>
 CH>  MS> Do they?
 GP>  CH>
 CH>  Yeah well it seems that way ....  usually sexual. And pastries of
 CH> course! :) And the bread and the wine! :) and the Blue Cheese! :)

 GP> Calling it a "french kiss" wasn't a credit -- it was an
accusation of
 GP> depravity towards the entire French nation.

 AH. Thanks.

 I'm getting so nothing is as it seems so if somebody says this is
 from such and such a place or whatever it's probally not! :)

 BTw there's some funny mushrooms growing up on the curb ariound the
block. FUNNY because um well mushrooms don't normally grow in the sun
do they? (and what WERE you thinking?  Anything particularly carnal(aka. hell-driven) was deemed "bad" and
 GP> the French, as a nation, were all deemed spiritually reprobate, so the
 GP> french kiss got its name!

 (Like that midevil legal term.. hmm how did it go.
  For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge?   :)

 GP> Other nations became common names, too, also because of prevailing
 GP> prejudices, like Welsh-anything or Dutch-anything, meaning

 Yeah like the dish Welsh Rabbit has NO rabbit in it.
It's a spelling that looks like rabbit (I forget what it is and
am too lazy to go look it up at the moment.)

 GP> unsophisticated (eg. Welsh comb(running your fingers through your
 GP> hair); Dutch Auction (diminishing prices, daily, to appeal to those
 GP> who won't
 GP> pay a good price today if they can wait for a better one tomorrow);

 GP> Welsh Rabbit (a meatless cheese dish), et al.

 Yep...

 And French Toast? heh. It's an American Invention using French bread.

Cindy


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