I'm going to try and keep a running dialogue of all the crazy and weird and typically French things that I see happen over here for the next couple weeks so I don't forget any of them. I don't expect to run out of things to talk about any time soon but at some point I surely have to stop being surprised at the bizarre things that happen over here (aside from the usual frog's legs, snails, etc).

I was in Normandy two years ago, staying in a beautiful little house in the countryside, with 5 girls. Just wait, it gets better.

We ordered pizza for dinner, picked it up, drove it back and starting dishing it out. I was amazed to see one of the girls grab a pair of scissors and then proceed to cut it up. I almost passed out from laughing hysterically.

After mentally recording that whole scene I vowed to bring the practice back to Australia just to see what happened if I busted out scissors at a party - maybe I'm the only person that thinks its weird back home as well. But of course I promptly forgot about it until a party the other night where once again pizzas were on hand, and once again the scissors emerged to divvy them up.

So, is it just me, or is this a normal practice in Australia that I've somehow just not ever seen before in 30 years of eating pizza?

http://trog.qgl.org/up/scissors_pizza.jpg

Kitchen Scissors work great for cutting pizza. I mean, I've never done it but now that I've seen it I recognise how good it would be.

trog needs to get with the times...

f*** that cheese pizza looks good.

I find the fact that your eating pizza hut in France weirder than the scissors.

...and that it's not pre-sliced.

last edited by r_mazing at 23:13:07 22/Sep/08

i use a knife

http://www.madslauritzen.com/images/content/Big_knife.jpg

I mean honestly, who throws a shoe?

that really really hurt.

I've never heard of that before either, but that sounds so much better than the crappy pizza cutters that are around

Oh the other crazy thing from the weekend was jam.. for cheese. So you get some bread, put jam on it, and then some cheese. Its actually pretty damn tasty.

i don't get it

don't french pizza cut slice their pizzas?

i don't get it

don't french pizza cut slice their pizzas?

Sometimes they do, but apparently they don't do the same sort of pro job that Aussie pizza slicers do where you can pretty much just pull it apart with your hands

Real aussies use spoons.

http://fasterthantheworld.com/knifey-spoony-6582.jpg

just don't use the same scissors you use for trimming your pubes.

Oh the other crazy thing from the weekend was jam.. for cheese. So you get some bread, put jam on it, and then some cheese. Its actually pretty damn tasty.

Not crazy at all, cheese has always worked with fruit. That's why cheeses are often served with things like quince paste or apple or dried grapes...

im so glad theres at least a domino's here, very good for those 'relaxing' nights

Oh the other crazy thing from the weekend was jam.. for cheese. So you get some bread, put jam on it, and then some cheese. Its actually pretty damn tasty.

Man, I grew up on this - but I'm an immigrant... a god dam awesome immigrant.

cheese and jam would be for the win!

cheese is always good

we often have cheese and quince which is just like jam

last edited by Spook at 07:24:55 23/Sep/08

isnt it like mixing peanut butter and jam (aka, jelly in US lingo, aka, "f***ed up")?

pb and jam is yum though

so's cheese and jam/chutney too. eg. cheese on crackers with red wine jelly. yum.

Yer Cheese and Jam is normal..

Did you pull out a bottle of Vegemite for those crazy French?

Yer Cheese and Jam is normal..

Did you pull out a bottle of Vegemite for those crazy French?

nah i was flat out. I inflicted some Bundy Rum upon them but one of them hated it and another thought it was OK. Who hates Bundy!?!?!

the entire educated population of australia?

Spook speaks the truth.

Also - Pizza Hut!??@? There's no real pizza shops around in Frenchland?

Fixed!!

nah i was flat out. I inflicted some Bundy Rum upon them but one of them hated it and another thought it was OK. Who hates Bundy!?!?!

They're probably used to actual decent rum :)

the entire educated population of australia?

I've done 6 years of uni and almost a year of postgrad and i LOVE bundy!
That said, Captian morgans spiced gold rum s***s all over bundy...mmm vanilla.

ok, uneducateds and accountants love bundy

(aside from the usual frog's legs, snails, etc).

Did you find that easy? One of the people I was with *really* wanted to try all that stuff (there was a 3rd dish too). We were only there for 2 days and we had to hit up about ~7 places before they told us about another place that would do it.

Snails are pretty tasty (Had it is a Basil/Garlic broth) frogs legs were dissapointing, no where near enough meat to make it worth while.

Be sure to hit up the Catacombes while in Paris!

Who hates Bundy!?!?!

I used to drink bundy all the time; few years later it makes me feel sick about half a glass through. Tried a scooner a little while ago and couldn't finish it otherwise probably woulda thrown up.

Rum is a dark spirits tho, whereas jim and jack are white spirits** (edit) which aren't (as) bad for your health (and your teeth colour lol). Rum used to make my teeth go yellow... Yuck.

Also,

pb and jam is yum though

last edited by 3dee at 11:33:16 23/Sep/08

i was in korea and some bitch was cutting up a steak with a pair of scissors :S

So, is it just me, or is this a normal practice in Australia that I've somehow just not ever seen before in 30 years of eating pizza?

I think it is completely bizarre that French people went at a pizza with scissors...I would have thought they would have just surrendered.

some bundy drinkers are alright when they're on their own :D

So last night I went to Cafe Oz, or the Oz Bar as the locals seem to call it. The menu states they have I think 4 or 5 Aussie beers, but last night they only had Tooheys New (cans) or Fosters (on tap). They also had Bundy (as previously indicated). All the cocktails were like regular cocktails but with an Australian name and maybe one more thing added (eg, tequila sunrise was a "Darwin Sunrise"; basically the same thing as a tequila one but it had grenadine or grapefruit or something else that's not normally there).

It was pretty much as you'd imagine an Australian bar would look like in some other part of the world; lots of wood paneling, corrugated iron bits, a couple crocodiles, road signs with kangaroo warnings, etc. Still fun though, if only because it was a bar.

edit: oh yeh, and they have aussie sport as well - including the AFL Grand Final on at 6.30am! I'd definitely go and watch it there except I'll be in Munich for Octoberfest!@#

last edited by trog at 19:52:58 23/Sep/08

i have trouble reading their website :(

I like that their website has this image on the front page.

http://www.australian-bar.com/photos/thumb.php?gdver=2&src=notnowkid.jpg&width=150&height=103.2