Fun French Food

Part of the fun of going to France is trying food that you might not necessarily try in your home country: i.e. Snails - escargot Mussels - moules Calf's Head - tete de veau Frogs Legs - Cuisses de grenouille Guinea Hen - Pintade Coq au Vin - rooster stew Just a few examples. My favorite beachside food are 'moules - frites' or mussels and fries, simply because you don't have to be dainty when eating mussels. The best way to enjoy mussels is to use one of the mussel shells like a tweezer to eke the next juicy morsel out of its shell. You can order moules -frites and that makes a full meal. Try it the next time you're at a seaside resort in France ( or even in Paris) but it's more fun by the beach. There's an expression in French 'la moule en folie' and as you'll remember in my entry on French slang - you can go in all sorts of directions when it comes to the French language - this one is pretty wild so I'm not even going to translate it for you. Just picture a mussel going wild . . . and you'll figure it out - there's actually a Montparnasse restaurant just off of Rue Gaite called La Moule en Folie. A Normandy friend of ours just about tripped when he saw the sign - "You know they'd NEVER get away with that name for a restaurant in Lisieux!" he said. Vive La Langue Francaise, donc.