ALLEZ LES BLUES!!!!!!! and my food situation

Writing by alysemarie on Tuesday, 3 of June , 2008 at 8:07 pm

tonight we went to a french football game!

they played Columbia.

It wasn’t even a big game but there were still 80,000 people in attendance.

The game was OK to watch. Im not a die hard soccer fan but It was the environment that made it exciting. Europeans LOVE football! and their love for the sport is contagious.

when we left Ashley (from NEW JERSEY) and I stopped to get food. The menu was very vague so I just put my hands up and said, “je suis vegetarien” What he returned with was a baguette with cheese and exploding with french fries. It reminded me of Fat Sandwich in Norman. Initially, I was disgusted but I was so hungry I talked myself into eating the fries off and then was curious about the taste of the entire sandwich. NOT OK. its really hit or miss here with the food

The other night after Versailles we went to the Latin Quarter with some natives of Nice that we had befriended. There is a street full of kebabs vendors. While they were in line getting there lame kebabs I went to the restaurant which was advertisting that they were VEGETARIAN. I had the MOST delicious gyro with falafel and hummus. They had fresh salsa, cucumbers and pickles you could use as garnish.

so there we were standing in the middle of a tiny Parisian street full of life and kebabs eating some of the most delicious food I have ever had.

There is also a really good sandwich place on my way from the metro to school. They have a really good vegetarian sandwich that they make right there that I can eat on my way to class.

But TODAY was a really bad day for food. For some reason I put off eating all day. When I finally got around to eating my brain was not functioning quite as sharply because of the low blood sugar (I guess). We wanted to go to the cafeteria but it was closed. So I remember seeing an Indian food restaurant near our dorms but they were close so we walked up the street a little further.

I saw a sign with an outline of a cowboy and an Indian (Native American). I thought the sign was hilarious and decided to walk in. RIght from the get-go I should have known to not eat there. It was an “American” themed restaurant. This is how Paris translates America…..

GAUDY decor, statues of Indians and cowboys. Blinking video games. a Mexican sombrero on the wall. I couldn’t figure out which sterotype they were trying to pin down. It was a modge podge of artifacts you might find in a cheap american restaurant.

the food was by far the worst part of the event.

The first and last time I was ever at a Pancho’s was when I was probably 11 but for some reason this restaurant was screaming PANCHO’S at me.

First it was this restaurant and then it was the crazy sandwich after the football game.

my camera died and my back up battery was dead at the game but I am going to get pictures from other people and put them up soon!

je t’aime!

here are some pictures from the event.

note the beer. We later found out it was non-alcoholic. Hilarity ensued when we remembered all the people acting drunk, most notably this young fellow.

I think this is France’s “hot-shot” player

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Category: Restaurants, Veg

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