Apparently not! Breakfast in Canada:
footnote3: There is something in the image to keep Vince happy too...
How kind of you !
Not sure what it is though ! I do like the Tektronix mug, even if we don't use mugs all that much over here. Certainly never had one in my life, and I am 44... so clearly not an essential part of life here !
The Peanut butter jar is labelled in French ! How odd... we are not into that stuff here ?!
Or maybe we are and just have not noticed just yet...
Must be a local / Canadian company making it just for local consumption and labelled it in French to make it more posh and ask more money for it ?!
Not to worry, I have difficulty finding things directly in front of me.
The jar of "Tartinade de cassis" comes from St. Dalfour, France.
OK !
Well no wonder I didn't get it then... the picture is too small so the only thing I could make up was the peanut butter jar, not the one next to it..
Not sure it would have made any difference though, as I never heard of this cassisd thingy from Dalfour, enver heard of that town.
The thing is, I am not much into cooking.. all you foreigner seem to enjoy and know more about our products than I do.
The thing is I think, that foreigner only get a minuscule fraction of our French product... what the importer decided to flog to you.
But... here every little place has a specialty of sort, I could spend my life going throught every of the 36,000 villages over here to list whatever specialty they might have... so unless it's something ultra mega famous, ie stuff even non-cooks like, the average joe knows... then I am unlikely to ever hear about it !
I am sure your town has some specialty. A grand-ma somewhere near you that does excellent this or that... everybody in a 10 mile radius drives to her to get the stuff she makes... she is famous... but in France or anywhere else, we will never hear about that grand-ma !
I feel a bit embarrassed that foreigners are better at cooking than me the average stupid French bloke ! Just because I am French does not mean I know everything there is to know... especially WRT to food as there is just an infinity of nice products. You discover them as you move house and get to know the local stuff near your new place. You just can't know about all the good stuff going on 50 or 1000 kms from you at the other end of the ountry
What I find odd is that cassis in French is the black currant only, and cassis in Quebecois is the red currant only. In English, we differentiate the two currants by colour.
Well that's what makes the various languages fun I find !
It's like "RIGOL" which in French means have a laugh... like... " this chinese stuff is so ugly and crap that's it's laughable " !
In the GWN, the country is officially bilingual, so rotating the jar will reveal the english part of the label.
Really ?!
Oh didn't know that, that's cool !
Here we have more and more stuff that's written in Arabic and / or some incomprehensible eastern Europe language like Polish or Hungarian or what have you. I guess it costs too much money to make a 100% French label for French stuff....