Credit : Reuters / Charles Platiau – via The Telegraph
Never mind the French … garbage in the streets.
Its smell is actually better than the stinking cigares on café terrasses, the toxic diesel particles in the streets (especially for kids and dogs and dwarves with their nose lower, and possibly better, than ours), and the dirty hands of too many French (politicians, but not only).
Besides, after a few decades of French style socialism “à la Saint-Germain des Prés”, many French, especially Parisians without subsidized housing and a job in the administration, football or the glamour business, have no better choice for food than picking up rotten cherries, disposed caviar and other junk food left by the richer tourists and more famous sociali(s)tes.
I usually don’t give a damn when 40 year-old students or so called engaged citizens working with ONGs protest against this or that, because democracy and civilisation are not noisy ungrownups and subsidized tax free activists, but I’m all the more happy about the TTIPLeaks, since this may help save good food and decent European civilization for a little while more.
The good news is, French Coffee (and delicious French bashing) is available in most decent luncheonettes in America.
The bad news is, American Coffee is much more widespread (and well deserved) in most globenglish speaking places.
The real bad news is, for coffee lovers in the Americas, the French do it better (and deserve it more) in Paris (not only coffee, among other things, but French bashing).
French socialist leader maxi-mots François Hollande used to have a fan-club … when former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was in charge. But this time is long gone, and now only few French people love him in Paris and orbi…