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Did I hear you say you also had a book on moving to France? (Or did I imagine that? LOL) I didn't see it on you blog. Perhaps I'm mistaken but I would be interested if you do have it. I ordered a t-shirt while I was there though!
@@RPLstudiocity HI Daisy, yes I have an eBook w/France travel tips. Check it out here: www.ouiinfrance.com/france-travel-tips-eguide/ Thanks and Merry Christmas!
Did they not told you during the secret ceremony that you must never ever share this tip with anyone outside the sect??? lol 5 inch... well is is a minima :)
I noticed in Rome that numerous side mirrors on cars were smashed, damaged or gone entirely leaving a tail of control wires swinging outside. My friend said drivers use the mirrors as street- width gauges.
My favorite thing I had in France, was the vanilla ice cream. The kind we had, had little black specs in it, which I assume were vanilla bean. It was the best ice cream I have ever had, and I'd fly back just for another bowl. The chocolatine, macaroons, etc. were all terrific, but the ice cream, oo la la!
Black specs in vanilla ice cream is indication of small pieces of vanilla beans. In quality Ice cream. At small local vendors - not national brands. - they'll imitate the vanilla pecks with black painted saw dust.
Processionary caterpillars are indeed very dangerous. Here in Provence, we have a lot of them (because we have a lot of pine trees, and they nest in it all winter). It's such a pain to, each winter, remove their cotton candy looking nests from the trees and burn them, but I much prefer doing that than meeting them on their late spring procession. Their little hairs are urticate and can fly around with the wind if you crush the caterpillars (hence why the only safe solution is burning the whole nest, so the hairs are trapped inside the cotton candy thing). There have been cases of animals getting necrosis and loosing part of their tongue after trying to eat them, and people becoming blind after getting hairs in the eyes. They are no joke. If you see them, stay at a distance and don't annoy them. Don't ever poke them, even with a stick, as it will make the hairs fly up. Stay safe everybody 😊 (But don't let that discourage you to come visit, most of the year there are 0 risks of meeting them 😉)
@@lazyshoggy Well personally, we have to cut some branches anyway to protect the trees in case there's fires in the following summer. So when there is a nest on a branch, we cut the whole branch, so it's easier to transport the nest to the fire area and burn it along with the other nests and the other branches. It makes a big pile and we stay there, monitoring the fire for several hours until everything is reduced to ashes. Then, we pour water onto it to reduce the coal's heat until it's soaked cold and it's done. No caterpillars has ever come out alive of this
About unrefrigerated milk - same confusion with Americans in the Netherlands: this is milk, meant for staying usable for a longer time. Your regular fresh milk is sold, well refrigerated.
I've only ever seen violet sweets, but I'd taste that ice cream for sure! We also make sweets/syrup/wine with elderberry flowers, it's really good. Given the region you live in, I wonder if you've heard of angélique? It's a plant who likes swamps, so it's common in Poitou, and it had a reputation of "cure all". Nuns in the city of Niort created sweets (and jams) with the stems of the plant, and it has become a staple in the local brioche. It's a vivid green, and really good!
I remember asking to use a bathroom in a bar and it was free in Paris I was skeptical when I opened the door I saw it was what I believe is called a turquish bathroom just a square porcelain thing on the ground
Do you mean the toilet you squat over. These are even in my next biggish town. I hate them. I find it so painful for my legs and back. It seems primitive to me. Especially hard if you’re wearing tight jeans.
I knew i recognised that canal, and then you mentionend charente. this is the thouerat écluses, i live like 3 walking minutes away along the river. Small world
as you seen that hedgehogs are usually calm and slow... you can imagine how bad it is for them to cross the roads, and meeting cars. :-( Lot of them dies on our roads.
@@OuiInFrance they are very familiar, funny, timid, and acrobatic animals. They like fruits and earthworms, many things. but very often carry a lot of fleas... so too bad for your dog if it goes too close of them.
For your information, horse meat is usually given to children as it is one if not the most lean meat, almost no fat in it. Taste is different from beef. As for the animal, i found horse AND cows cool animals but for me, both may be eaten.
Long life milk also needs to be refrigerated once you actually open it. Eggs basically don't have to be refrigerated since they're not washed but I kind of grew up refrigerating them and just kept the habit.
As a dutch tourist who has travelled all over France for many years; I've seen several of those vending machines. In a little village where there is no bakery for example. A Baker from a village nearby filled them twice a day.
I had no idea hedgehogs were not common in North America. In France it's super common once you get out of city centers. My parents in the suburbs have some in the garden, they sometimes show up and eat the food left for the cats :) Also they're great if you try to grow tomatoes or something, because they eat slugs I believe.
There is also raccoons in France, and they are hunted on purpose because they are harmful to the local environment. Especially in Auvergne, where some years ago there was a huge raccoons invasion.
The link doesn't explain the milk, though it explains the eggs. For anyone wondering, most milk in France, and many other parts of Europe, is ultra pasteurized (UHT), like ultra, and many are put in tetrapak containers (in France they have the technology to recycle tetrapak unlike other countries), though there are still a lot packed in plastic containers. This makes the milk shelf stable for quite a while before opening, obviously after opening you need to put it in the fridge. Also all forms of cream may be ultra pasteurized and shelf stable also. However for many people that were not raised on this stuff, it may taste like burnt milk (I'm in this box, I absolutely hate the stuff), so there is fresh milk available in the refrigerated dairy section, but the selection isn't that good. Also fresh cream that isn't UHT can be extremely hard to find, you may have to go to a fromagerie to get fresh cream. I was raised with the notion that whipping cream shouldn't be UHT because it's not very stable when whipped unless you add a stabilizer like gelatin or something like that (which actually I'm finding out many bakeries here do), fresh non-UHT cream tends to be better for making clotted cream too, (also many UHT creams already have stabilizers in the ingredients, which you may want to avoid for some recipes), but finding non-UHT heavy cream for some recipes is proving to be quite difficult. Honestly, because of the fiasco of trying to find non-UHT cream and milk, I've switched to non-dairy for many things like cereal and some baking because I don't need fresh dairy, nor do I necessarily need dairy for that stuff anyways. I've come to really like this epeautre-noisette (spelt and hazenut) "milk" for my cereal and pancakes, things like that, and it helps be lower me dairy intake which is always good. But if I'm having coffee or tea with milk, I need need need the fresh non-UHT stuff, even the non-dairy stuff doesn't taste that good to me in coffee or tea
^^ I am France. So I use/drink milk uht. I have never drink real milk of cow. I don’t want ^^ no no no. I love my French milk with coffee. I need to search info on google because I still don’t understand why American eggs are white . And how they do to change the color inside the « chicken » :)
I know it's an old comment and your UHT explanation is right but I was very surprised by the affirmation that fresh cream is 'extremely hard' to find here. I have lived in quite a few cities of all sizes and have been pretty much all over France and I have never seen a supermarket not having entire shelves of refrigerated fresh cream, from liquid to actual crème fraîche including all the different fat contents and the labels and at least half a dozen of fresh milks including buttermilk. The only time I ever had trouble finding some was in very small 24/24h corner shops but no one does all of their shopping there. I have never bought cream or milk in a fromagerie and I have never consumed a drop of UHT cream or milk. In 2021 (year of your comment), fresh cream represents 43% of sales, UHT 53% and the rest is vegetal (the report on vegetal would come mostly from higher socio economical categories, so while I can't affirm it I find it likely it was taken mostly from the 'fresh' side of things). So UHT is really not that prevalent over all and you normally shouldn't have any trouble finding plenty of quality fresh creams in any mainstream (even smallish) supermarket anywhere in France. Where you live must be a dairy black spot... its situation is extremely unusual and I have never heard about this before. You have my condolences. Source: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/www.franceagrimer.fr/fam/content/download/69208/document/STA-LAI-Consommation%20de%20produits%20laitiers%20en%202021.pdf?version=1
You cannot visit St Malo and not buying an ice-cream at Sanchez's. It's a must do. Their ice-creams are so good and they always try new flavors. No wonder the violette one was a good experience
Hi Kimberly, there are two kinds of machines: 1) The type that acts as a storage device for fresh bread and is refilled several times a day (or only has bread after hours). The bread goes right into it after it comes out of the oven so it's just as fresh for the most part as the bread in the bakery. 2) A machine with an oven that actually bakes the baguette. These are more common at commercial bakeries where dough isn't prepared on-site, such as the supermarket in many cases. The linked video to Intermarche has this type of machine where the bread comes out warm because it was just baked. They both have their pros and cons but I think option 1 is better if you get there right when the machine was filled up. ;-) Thanks for watching!
You bring up a good point -- that things we find normal now maybe didn't exist 10 or 20+ years ago. Another example of that is a pinata. MY husband had never seen one as a kid and the word wasn't used. Now, 10-year-olds know what they are.
In the late 80s i had a german exchange student home, and he never had seen, heard of,or eaten couscous either. The funny part was when the translation from french to german said.... couscous, that did not help him at all to understand what it was (before internet fun times 🤣)
@@awkad an anecdote that amused and horrified me lol I went to a Moroccan restaurant that made homemade couscous and there was an English couple. They broke down when the waiter brought the dishes. they waited 5 minutes and asked that the semolina be replaced by fries and horror !! they also asked for ketchup ...we almost fell off the chair lol
Terre adélice ? Ils sont de super parfums par contre celle à la chèvre, j’ai essayé (pourtant j’adore le fromage de chèvre) en entrée avec de la salade ça n’a pas passé…
aaah terre àdélice j’habite juste à côté de l’usine (c’est pas vraiment une usine mais bon) et vraiment ils font les meilleures glaces que j’ai jamais goûtées
You should try sugared violet petals. You put a sugared violet petal or a sugared rose petal in your flute before pouring champagne and it becomes a fancy variation of Kir royal. You can find other flower petals in sugar as long as they are edible. And sugared leaves, eg sugared mint leaves. They are usually used to decorate cakes.
Horse meat is not sold at regular butcher's. It's sold at _boucheries chevalines_ or at the packed meat aisle of supermarkets. There are only 750 horse meat butcher's left in France (out of a total of 15 986). They might eventually disappear in a few years.
Horse meat is yummy! I used to enjoy it while living in Italy. You can't find it in Texas although some slaughterhouses do process horsemeat for export. Alligator and snake meat are available but not horse.
About the parking situation. That was indeed tolerated for years "as long as it doesn't prevent the car flow" which sucks big time for anyone having problems navigating sidewalks or just anyone with a stroller. By the way, ever wonder why there are some iron poles on the sidewalk ? Like everywhere in city centers ? It's to prevent "savages parking" (such an accurate name for the practice don't you think ?). You can find tons of photos of people parking like shit with the #GCUM (garé comme une merde) and even buy stickers to put on cars if you dare :)
5:11 no it's not legal, the car need to be parked in the direction of the traffic. That black Mercedes should get a ticket but i'm not sure if the police have time to bother with that. And parking on the sidewalk is also illegal.
There is milk in the fridge as well, its where you find most of the milk brands and yes there are Special milk which not need to be in the fridge, but when there are Opened they need to be in the fridge as well. This is just false i am sorry.
eggs don't need to be refrigerated because the eggshell is thick enough not to crack and then allow salmonella to pass through it. With bad quality food the shell is too thin.
Hi....can so relate to the Violette ice cream story.....when I went to south of Sweden a decade or so ago...I encountered Elderberry ice cream, which I had never heard of where I grew up in Canada. My Swedish hosts adored it and couldn't wait for me to try it....it was SOOOOO delicious....floral and sweet and mellow.....I ate altogether too much of it and have not ever encountered any again anywhere else.
@@OuiInFrance I love anything flavored with cassis (black currant), so common in France but almost absent at least in the midwest (that is, north central) part of the US. (Why DO we call it midwest when it's really north central??)
I totally understand your reaction when seeing the hedgehog. When I lived in the US I was amazed seeing a possum in our yard once. And I also realized that Woody Woodpecker really existed in nature, I honestly believed he was totally imaginary. Have you ever tried lavender ice cream? So good.
Milk, you can find both because this depends from the conservation treatment they have: sterilized= non refrigirated, pateurized or raw milk= refrigirated. Eggs did not need refrigeration if the are no washed, the natural protection is thus not removed...
I live 13 years in France and have never seen a baguette vending machine. Also, milk is in the fridge. Only long life milk is at room temperature in the store. But I would never buy that. About ice cream, or macaron, you also get lavender flavour, or rose flavour. It is devine :-)
I have not seen hedgehogs but I have seen the bread vending machines in neighboring towns. I knew all about locks when I took my canal boat trip thanks to you! Looking forward to reading your book-congrats on all the hard work!
Hello another funny video. About public toilets, it depends. The first you showed, for instance, a free public ones in Paris. Hedgehogs are becoming an endangered species in France. They get smashed by cars and poisoned because they eat slugs that get poisoned by insecticide.
@@OuiInFrance I've try one, they are good, a bit like the best supermarket brand pizza. Not like a restaurant but still good. By the way, my train station in Lyon has a vending machine for umbrellas! very handy!
Eating horse meat has fallen into disuse, it is increasingly rare these days to come across a "horse butchery", it concerns more the elderly (I know that it was still done after World War II but it has become rare with industrial farming). I or my family have never eaten it. Regarding our hedgehogs, they are now in danger because their natural habitat is shrinking and that's a shame :/
Horse is "sacred" in the American mind for two reasons : #1 their British heritage, British people already considered having a horse a privilege of the nobility, an animal significant of your rank and of your status, most notably during hunting parties and at war. Being seen is such high-regard made horses a definitive "no" the the question "should I eat this?". #2 The American Frontier era (also called "Old West" or "Wild West"), in which horses played a massive role for the colonial caravans, the cowboys guarding cattle or the army. Again, horse was put on a pedestal, and it reinforced the idea that eating a horse was not just wrong, but even immoral. Meanwhile, we french people just kept on being the Chinese of Western Europe: "Hmmm, I wonder if it tastes good? Let's cook it and find out!"
If you like Violette ice cream than you should try sugar violette's they are violette's cristalized in sugar. They are a regional specialty. Otherwise you can also get rose ice cream, rose jam. If it's an edible flower then it's used in some way. There are also some flower wines.
my grandma used to give me candies that were sugar-coated violette (the flower) petals, we also have mimosa "grain", that are kind of the same thing (sugar-coated plant part, maybe more the grain in this case), it's very old-fashioned (my grandma passed away 15/20 years ago), but I think you can find some if you look around a bit (maybe a gift shop or gift corner in a supermarket). I believe the ice cream you spoke of is based on the same taste. I'm wondering if this kind of candy is really specific to france. I don't think so. you talked about lavande, I once had a go at a lavande-flavored ice cream in roussillon (where you can find the ocher mine, very nice place), but it was too strong :)
Hedgehogs is normal in Denmark too. They are so cute, minding their own business. Easily scared. They usually stand still when they spot people... and if you get to close, or make any sudden movement they curl up. 🐌🐛🦔🐾🐾
I am a french living in America and just like you there are things I had never seen before like skunks ( I can't stand the smell) opossums and also all the squirrels that are everywhere!!
Yes, so true, it works both ways. I can't say I've seen an opossum here. I associate them with rabies ever since I was a kid and and a rabid one had to be put down by a cop in my backyard. Eeek. But we do have ragondins here that I see often! P.S. My husband is always amused by all the squirrels he sees in the US!
Squirrels in the US are annoying. When I was camping they would go into the tent and search the bags. I prefer French hedgehogs, they are loud when they eat at night, but they are not intrusive.
Hi, Diane-- I love your videos. So informative, always interesting content, and well presented. I spent only a week in France, many years ago, would love to see more. So staying tuned. Thanks for this topic today-- very interesting.
In the UK and belgium a lot of public toilets also Incurr a charge. Until recently even Victoria station charged for the bathroom. Horse meat, we used to have boucheries chevalines that specialised in horse meat. Anyone who wants to try horse meat should start with a saucisson de Cheval. Parking wise, don't think you can compare the US to any European country. We don't have huge roads over here. So people park where they can. In small towns it's usually not a problem. In the town where I grew up you have to park on the pavement. As for reversing, maybe we're just better at it so we don't find it a problem :) and as a pedestrian we're just used to it. Every time I'm in France with my British husband he is confused by the implicit traffic rules, but they're normal for us.
Oh my goodness, no matter how we try we can’t understand the right hand priority rule, just no idea. I’m sure we must have annoyed the French many times.
never seen these caterpillars, (i live in northeast France). But I had never seen hedgehogs either until I moved to France. Anyway, love your vids, and your observations. Best wishes from your latest subscriber.
The milk-egg question reminds me of something i often heard about USA : the us laws don’t allow non-sterilized cheese due to bacteria risk and things like that. Whereas France has a huge range of cheese « au lait cru » that would not be possible to find in us. Do you see what I mean? I ´ve heard some french youtubers living in the us speaking about this. (Maybe you already spoke avout this but I recently discovered your channel, maybe I didn’t get it)
It's not sterilized, it's that the milk has to be pasteurized. Raw unpasteurized milk is generally not allowed here, though sometimes farmers sell it directly at the farm.
you know what i'm french, and i never saw a baguette vending machine ever. flowers taste good, we don't use them as much as one time, but roses, violettes, lavander, poppys, tagetes, cherry blossoms, they all taste good and make great sweets, icecream, or tea.
UGGH! UHT milk is _the worse_! French people go on and on about their dairy, but their milk is terrible. Sure, you have good cheese in France, but you can't do fresh dairy well. However, here in Ireland, we can.
Room temperature milk is always UHT treated to make it stable, fresh milk has to be in refrigerated cupboards... UHT milk tastes funny... then again, I never drink raw milk in France, when I came from Canada, the taste was off and bad to me.
Have you never heard of 'Spending a penny'? Most milk in supermarkets is Long Life. Parking on what you call the sidewalk is usually legal and often encouraged. If you want to experience locks, go canalling in England.
Only lait UHT is stored at room temperature, here in Austria too, and in Italy and..... Lait frais is refridgerated, at least where I bought in Corsica last time (also in Italy and here in Austria)
Le cheval est une viande maigre . Elle est populaire dans le nord et le pas de calais, historiquement parce qu'elle était moins chère. Un tartare de cheval ou un filet américain (tartare préparé ) est une expérience qui vaut le détour. Et si vous en avez l'occasion essayez un rôti d'âne c'est la plus tendre des viandes. Les normes d'hygiène sont très strictes , par exemple on ne vend pas et on ne mange pas de chevaux de courses en raison des traitements qu'ils reçoivent. Sinon vous pouvez tourner vegan. 😇
Horse meat is less and less popular (because it's disgusting and people don't like the ideo of eating horses), especially among younger generations. It still has its uses since it's the best meat to consume if you have a lack of iron in your blood (or so I read). Well, at least we're not eating dogs ^^
When it comes to driving you ain’t lying. I’m a New Yorker and we are sane next to French drivers😂 one tried to drive my taxi off the road when heading to the airport 😮
in France, we do not put the eggs in the refrigerator because of the salmonella which is on the shell, we keep them at room temperature, there is a use-by date printed on the shell, and I have never been sick from eating eggs, it's true, I eat less and less eggs because they contain too much cholesterol, but I make omelettes with fried potatoes, I take potatoes that I cut into thin slice, I place these slices in the pan with olive oil, I brown them, and then I add the beaten eggs! a little salt and it's super good!
In Paris, there are no baguette vending machines. Hedgehogs, don't touch them, they have been undergoing someking of epidemic for a few years now, they are dying like flies and we don't know why... And they are on the edge of extinction, it is an endangered species. Horse meat tends to become rarer by the day. Paris had a lot of Horse meat butchers back in the day.
I hear many people saw hedgehogs feeding on cat food. They are wild animals not supposed to eat food like that, especially on daily bases. Even domestic animals are not in very good shape eating the canned and dried food, lots of cancers and degenerative diseases....People are usually unaware and pretty naive to what extend we ruin living creatures' lives in very simple and stupid ways. It's sad. Animals are like children, they will try things and if they like it, they will continue. Especially if they don't have enough of their genuine natural food available in their habitat. I'm not saying it to blame humans, we can hear it very often anyway. It's just that I feel pity for the living creatures of all kind who suffer a lot in this world because of endless human intrusions. Hopefully there will be still more and more people who live close to the nature and teach others. They are many all over France, you can find plenty just on youtube.(I'm not speaking about greenwashing and green political agendas, the real thing.) Maybe a good tip for a video.
How right you are Christophe ! First thing we always used to do when starting our holiday in Arcachon was rushing to the beach restaurant Le Bikini and ordering "une glace à la violette".The very taste of relaxation and summer, the very symbol of lovely vacations ahead. By the way candied violets or violet syrup are an excellent speciality from Toulouse.
Hedgehogs are nocturnal ; so much so that when they find themselves wandering around during the day because their nests have been destroyed, they become extremely vulnerable. Their skin is very thin and flies come and lay their eggs on them. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae begin to dig into the animal's flesh, reach a higher stage of development, and literally devour it alive. If you see a hedgehog outside the nest during the day, it's necessary to inform a care center as quickly as possible. It's a protected species; some people (very few in France unfortunately), are empowered and trained to give them care... Small information in passing: the hedgehog which illustrates the thumbnail is an pygmy hedgehog of Africa 😉
I live in the South of Seine-Saint-Denis, and in the parc near my house there's a vendor who does only old school types of ice cream, so rose, violet, poppy, honey... It's amazing. The only other place I know that goes for curious flavours is the ice cream shop of the barri gotic in Barcelona lol (they went viral a few years ago when they sold marijuana ice cream)
Je vis dans un village, une commune voisine n'a plus de commerce, mais il y a une de ces machines mise en place par un boulanger d 'une commune voisine .
@@olivierdk2 Bonne initiative en vrai, j'avoue que je vis en ville et c'est pas le genre de trucs qu'on voit dans la rue ^^ Mais c'est surement parce qu'il n'y en a pas besoin
Many times I’ve seen men stop at the side of a road, granted more of a rural or long road, and they just stand there and pee. Brazenly, no attempt to even hide what they’re doing, in full view, not caring.
US wash eggs thus the egg shell is "weaker", more permeable; so bacteriae can penetrate eggs more easily On the other hands, europe don't wash eggs, but since there's still organic materials on the shell, shops can not refregerate them: the condensation will help bacterial growth
@@carlycaroline07245 and for milk, well, i forget the regluations about milk in the us, so i can not tell you why it's refrigerated it's usless in Europe since it is pateurize and embottled (is that a word ?) in a "sterile" room
@@osez111 this is unrelated but I learned from my french teacher that there is dried milk that people store in pantries. Sounded gross at first but why not have powder milk? XD
@@artimist0315 ah ben forcément dans les villes plus grandes y'en a pas besoin. Dans les plus petits villages ça devient courant d'avoir un boulanger qui remplit plusieurs machines dans plusieurs villages plutôt que d'avoir un seul point de vente pour 5 villages. Maintenant je commence même à en voir dans les villes moyennes, a côté de vrais boulangeries, ça ce développe très vite
When we bought our house over 20 years ago our local HyperU had a wine vending macine. It was built into the wall of the supermarket. Turn up with your empty bottles, money in the slots et voila! You don't see them thesedays. On the shelf is the UHT milk, fresh milk is normally stocked with the cheeses. Hate those caterpillars. Look out for Violette syrup, make for an interesting Kir.
Omg pay toilets. Visited Paris a few weeks ago. Didn't have cash on us because it was just a weekend (didn't take card) and my 6 year old was hitting critical limits. Took 30 minutes to find a bathroom after going to an ATM. Why are toilets pay to use? Sanitation is important. Also these were 1 or 2€.
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Did I hear you say you also had a book on moving to France? (Or did I imagine that? LOL) I didn't see it on you blog. Perhaps I'm mistaken but I would be interested if you do have it. I ordered a t-shirt while I was there though!
@@RPLstudiocity HI Daisy, yes I have an eBook w/France travel tips. Check it out here: www.ouiinfrance.com/france-travel-tips-eguide/
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
@@OuiInFrance Thank you so much, Diane! Merry Christmas to you as well!
Easy rule for parking in Paris:
If you hear the cracking sound, slowly back up 5 inches more
Did they not told you during the secret ceremony that you must never ever share this tip with anyone outside the sect??? lol 5 inch... well is is a minima :)
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I noticed in Rome that numerous side mirrors on cars were smashed, damaged or gone entirely leaving a tail of control wires swinging outside. My friend said drivers use the mirrors as street- width gauges.
Another rule in France is , you are the odd one out if you use indicators 😂
My favorite thing I had in France, was the vanilla ice cream. The kind we had, had little black specs in it, which I assume were vanilla bean. It was the best ice cream I have ever had, and I'd fly back just for another bowl.
The chocolatine, macaroons, etc. were all terrific, but the ice cream, oo la la!
Black specs in vanilla ice cream is indication of small pieces of vanilla beans. In quality Ice cream. At small local vendors - not national brands. - they'll imitate the vanilla pecks with black painted saw dust.
Just a tip, don't ever say chocolatine to someone in France cause there's a 70% chance he'll want to kill you
"chocolatine"... omg... dont ever say that
@@beussta Pan au chocolat!
@@djastram pain*
Processionary caterpillars are indeed very dangerous. Here in Provence, we have a lot of them (because we have a lot of pine trees, and they nest in it all winter). It's such a pain to, each winter, remove their cotton candy looking nests from the trees and burn them, but I much prefer doing that than meeting them on their late spring procession. Their little hairs are urticate and can fly around with the wind if you crush the caterpillars (hence why the only safe solution is burning the whole nest, so the hairs are trapped inside the cotton candy thing). There have been cases of animals getting necrosis and loosing part of their tongue after trying to eat them, and people becoming blind after getting hairs in the eyes. They are no joke. If you see them, stay at a distance and don't annoy them. Don't ever poke them, even with a stick, as it will make the hairs fly up. Stay safe everybody 😊
(But don't let that discourage you to come visit, most of the year there are 0 risks of meeting them 😉)
I remember that we used to burn their nests when I was a child, but every time they just went out some days later with no harm ...
@@lazyshoggy How is that even possible ? 🤔
@@Aurorya I guess that the cocoon protects them, it's very hard to destroy and must isolate them from the heat and the smoke.
@@lazyshoggy Well personally, we have to cut some branches anyway to protect the trees in case there's fires in the following summer. So when there is a nest on a branch, we cut the whole branch, so it's easier to transport the nest to the fire area and burn it along with the other nests and the other branches. It makes a big pile and we stay there, monitoring the fire for several hours until everything is reduced to ashes. Then, we pour water onto it to reduce the coal's heat until it's soaked cold and it's done. No caterpillars has ever come out alive of this
About unrefrigerated milk - same confusion with Americans in the Netherlands: this is milk, meant for staying usable for a longer time. Your regular fresh milk is sold, well refrigerated.
I've had violet chewing gum which was surprisingly good.
Ooh, sounds intriguing. I will keep an eye out!
I've only ever seen violet sweets, but I'd taste that ice cream for sure! We also make sweets/syrup/wine with elderberry flowers, it's really good. Given the region you live in, I wonder if you've heard of angélique? It's a plant who likes swamps, so it's common in Poitou, and it had a reputation of "cure all". Nuns in the city of Niort created sweets (and jams) with the stems of the plant, and it has become a staple in the local brioche. It's a vivid green, and really good!
I remember asking to use a bathroom in a bar and it was free in Paris I was skeptical when I opened the door I saw it was what I believe is called a turquish bathroom just a square porcelain thing on the ground
Do you mean the toilet you squat over. These are even in my next biggish town. I hate them. I find it so painful for my legs and back. It seems primitive to me. Especially hard if you’re wearing tight jeans.
I knew i recognised that canal, and then you mentionend charente. this is the thouerat écluses, i live like 3 walking minutes away along the river. Small world
as you seen that hedgehogs are usually calm and slow... you can imagine how bad it is for them to cross the roads, and meeting cars. :-( Lot of them dies on our roads.
Very true, I see it all the time sadly ;-((
@@OuiInFrance they are very familiar, funny, timid, and acrobatic animals. They like fruits and earthworms, many things. but very often carry a lot of fleas... so too bad for your dog if it goes too close of them.
Some species of hedgehogs are kept as pets. I'm not sure that's a good thing for the hedgies, but they ARE cute.
There used to be pay toilets in the US - they stopped in the med 1970's. (see Pay toilet - wikipedia page) Congratulations on the e-book.
For your information, horse meat is usually given to children as it is one if not the most lean meat, almost no fat in it. Taste is different from beef. As for the animal, i found horse AND cows cool animals but for me, both may be eaten.
There are so many links in the description, I cannot find any one on milk or eggs.
I laughed when I saw 'Pain 24h/24' vending machine.. if you read it in english 😄
Did you get what you assumed 🔨
Jan had an animal blog but she died miss her
i've never ever seen these invasive urticant caterpillars in France in my entire life. It's a very local phenomenon.
*5:29** Much more tolerated in countryside!!! Much less in big cities, especially in Paris...*
50 cent Restroom Fee on the German Highway. For free in France..
Nobody use the restrooms that you have to pay to use tbh, we just wait to use a free one
Yes, hedgehogs are so common in France. I have 3 or 4 of them in my small garden. I'm finding them every single day, with cats food.
French gypsyes used to eat them
Hedgehogs are common. Especially when they are crushed in a side of a road where you go everyday for like 3 months (and it's so sad)
@@dreamsofvoid2023 Yes, yes because their defense when they see a car is to stop and withdraw into themselves.
I think they are endemic to Europe, very cute and perfectly harmless.
Same happens to me :) i love them so much
Violette is a speciality from Toulouse, very common there if you want to try more violette food go for Toulouse for sure !
oui ils sont commun à Toulouse et Frouzins
Long life milk is not refrigerated however you will find fresh milk along side butters, cheeses and yoghurts, etc.
Long life milk also needs to be refrigerated once you actually open it. Eggs basically don't have to be refrigerated since they're not washed but I kind of grew up refrigerating them and just kept the habit.
As a french, i've never seen a baguette vending machine too
ça fait 2 ou 3 ans que ça commence à arriver comme les machines à pizzas, du coup on en voit pas partout
Dans les coin reculer ou il y a plus trops de boulangerie certaine boulangerie font le pain pour deux trois village en même temps
*As a frenchman. As a french c'est pas correct
Sérieusement ????
As a dutch tourist who has travelled all over France for many years; I've seen several of those vending machines. In a little village where there is no bakery for example. A Baker from a village nearby filled them twice a day.
I had no idea hedgehogs were not common in North America. In France it's super common once you get out of city centers. My parents in the suburbs have some in the garden, they sometimes show up and eat the food left for the cats :) Also they're great if you try to grow tomatoes or something, because they eat slugs I believe.
Americans have raccoons, we have hedgehogs ☺
There is also raccoons in France, and they are hunted on purpose because they are harmful to the local environment. Especially in Auvergne, where some years ago there was a huge raccoons invasion.
Sure, but hedgehogs don't cause any trouble to the human or environment
@@solenemb5546 In New Zealand, they do.
The link doesn't explain the milk, though it explains the eggs. For anyone wondering, most milk in France, and many other parts of Europe, is ultra pasteurized (UHT), like ultra, and many are put in tetrapak containers (in France they have the technology to recycle tetrapak unlike other countries), though there are still a lot packed in plastic containers. This makes the milk shelf stable for quite a while before opening, obviously after opening you need to put it in the fridge. Also all forms of cream may be ultra pasteurized and shelf stable also. However for many people that were not raised on this stuff, it may taste like burnt milk (I'm in this box, I absolutely hate the stuff), so there is fresh milk available in the refrigerated dairy section, but the selection isn't that good. Also fresh cream that isn't UHT can be extremely hard to find, you may have to go to a fromagerie to get fresh cream. I was raised with the notion that whipping cream shouldn't be UHT because it's not very stable when whipped unless you add a stabilizer like gelatin or something like that (which actually I'm finding out many bakeries here do), fresh non-UHT cream tends to be better for making clotted cream too, (also many UHT creams already have stabilizers in the ingredients, which you may want to avoid for some recipes), but finding non-UHT heavy cream for some recipes is proving to be quite difficult. Honestly, because of the fiasco of trying to find non-UHT cream and milk, I've switched to non-dairy for many things like cereal and some baking because I don't need fresh dairy, nor do I necessarily need dairy for that stuff anyways. I've come to really like this epeautre-noisette (spelt and hazenut) "milk" for my cereal and pancakes, things like that, and it helps be lower me dairy intake which is always good. But if I'm having coffee or tea with milk, I need need need the fresh non-UHT stuff, even the non-dairy stuff doesn't taste that good to me in coffee or tea
^^ I am France. So I use/drink milk uht. I have never drink real milk of cow. I don’t want ^^ no no no. I love my French milk with coffee. I need to search info on google because I still don’t understand why American eggs are white . And how they do to change the color inside the « chicken » :)
@@jean5416 la couleur des oeufs depend de la couleur de la poule, je crois.
@@eiramg mdr je viens de regarder sur Google. Oui c’est ça ^^ c’est en fonction de la race de la poule ^^
I know it's an old comment and your UHT explanation is right but I was very surprised by the affirmation that fresh cream is 'extremely hard' to find here.
I have lived in quite a few cities of all sizes and have been pretty much all over France and I have never seen a supermarket not having entire shelves of refrigerated fresh cream, from liquid to actual crème fraîche including all the different fat contents and the labels and at least half a dozen of fresh milks including buttermilk. The only time I ever had trouble finding some was in very small 24/24h corner shops but no one does all of their shopping there.
I have never bought cream or milk in a fromagerie and I have never consumed a drop of UHT cream or milk. In 2021 (year of your comment), fresh cream represents 43% of sales, UHT 53% and the rest is vegetal (the report on vegetal would come mostly from higher socio economical categories, so while I can't affirm it I find it likely it was taken mostly from the 'fresh' side of things). So UHT is really not that prevalent over all and you normally shouldn't have any trouble finding plenty of quality fresh creams in any mainstream (even smallish) supermarket anywhere in France.
Where you live must be a dairy black spot... its situation is extremely unusual and I have never heard about this before. You have my condolences.
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You cannot visit St Malo and not buying an ice-cream at Sanchez's. It's a must do.
Their ice-creams are so good and they always try new flavors. No wonder the violette one was a good experience
Thanks for this info. I visit St. Malo regularly ( or Dinan...soooo pretty) but did not have icecream there yet. This spring or summer I will do so!!
When thinking of food vending machines, one country comes to mind ... Japan. I'm kind of surprised that the French would accept bread from a machine.
Hi Kimberly, there are two kinds of machines:
1) The type that acts as a storage device for fresh bread and is refilled several times a day (or only has bread after hours). The bread goes right into it after it comes out of the oven so it's just as fresh for the most part as the bread in the bakery.
2) A machine with an oven that actually bakes the baguette. These are more common at commercial bakeries where dough isn't prepared on-site, such as the supermarket in many cases. The linked video to Intermarche has this type of machine where the bread comes out warm because it was just baked.
They both have their pros and cons but I think option 1 is better if you get there right when the machine was filled up. ;-) Thanks for watching!
In fact it's when you don't really have choice because it's not as good as in the bakery.
As a Frenchman, I've never seen such thing as a baguette vending machine…
@@julosx Il y a en quelques unes à Paris pour les fetards qui sortaient de boite... mais à part ca, oui il y en a peu ^^
As a French person, I consider Baguettes vending machines are pure heresy
If you loved violet ice cream, you have to try the violet hard candy.
The quality ones are expensive, but totally worth it.
Stp p. P o o. P
small adjustment. ...about milk..we have two kinds..the "long conservation" one, and the "fresh" one ...and the fresh is ALWAYS refrigerated ;)
It may be common here in the Uk now but I’d never seen couscous until I went to live in Paris in the 80s. And boy did I love it 😆
Couscous is the favorite dish of a lot of french people (including myself).
You bring up a good point -- that things we find normal now maybe didn't exist 10 or 20+ years ago. Another example of that is a pinata. MY husband had never seen one as a kid and the word wasn't used. Now, 10-year-olds know what they are.
In the late 80s i had a german exchange student home, and he never had seen, heard of,or eaten couscous either. The funny part was when the translation from french to german said.... couscous, that did not help him at all to understand what it was (before internet fun times 🤣)
@@awkad an anecdote that amused and horrified me lol I went to a Moroccan restaurant that made homemade couscous and there was an English couple. They broke down when the waiter brought the dishes. they waited 5 minutes and asked that the semolina be replaced by fries and horror !! they also asked for ketchup ...we almost fell off the chair lol
@@korrigan6698 Oh, dear. Some people should just stay home 😣
.... Des distributeurs de baguettes ?! Jamais vu de ma vie ! Je sais même pas comment le prendre lol
on s'habitue très bien quand on en a un pas loin .
If you come in Lyon, there is a shop which sells thousands of kind of ice creams with some extraordinary tastes, like cheese, lavande..
It's crazy
Yup :)
Terre adélice ? Ils sont de super parfums par contre celle à la chèvre, j’ai essayé (pourtant j’adore le fromage de chèvre) en entrée avec de la salade ça n’a pas passé…
Terre Adelice! Best glacier ever !
aaah terre àdélice j’habite juste à côté de l’usine (c’est pas vraiment une usine mais bon) et vraiment ils font les meilleures glaces que j’ai jamais goûtées
Same in Nice. You can find ice creams taste like cactus or beer.
fresh milk must be kept in the refrigerator. Just sterilized one (not good at all) can stay out of it.
"Pain 24/7" it sounds weird in English
Thanks for the good laugh! It remembers me a Rowan Atkinson show about hell (eternal damnation without relief ^^)
We're you thinking pain in the a*s ?
You should try sugared violet petals. You put a sugared violet petal or a sugared rose petal in your flute before pouring champagne and it becomes a fancy variation of Kir royal.
You can find other flower petals in sugar as long as they are edible. And sugared leaves, eg sugared mint leaves. They are usually used to decorate cakes.
Horse meat is not sold at regular butcher's. It's sold at _boucheries chevalines_ or at the packed meat aisle of supermarkets. There are only 750 horse meat butcher's left in France (out of a total of 15 986). They might eventually disappear in a few years.
Oh Lord, I hope so :-(
@@ashleighzee1611 why ? Horse meat is delicious !
@@ashleighzee1611 Mind you, most of the horse meat they sell comes from the U.S.
Cruel and gross
Trop génial que tu parle de Pornic !! Super ville ! Tes videos sont super !
Horse meat is yummy! I used to enjoy it while living in Italy. You can't find it in Texas although some slaughterhouses do process horsemeat for export. Alligator and snake meat are available but not horse.
About the parking situation. That was indeed tolerated for years "as long as it doesn't prevent the car flow" which sucks big time for anyone having problems navigating sidewalks or just anyone with a stroller.
By the way, ever wonder why there are some iron poles on the sidewalk ? Like everywhere in city centers ? It's to prevent "savages parking" (such an accurate name for the practice don't you think ?).
You can find tons of photos of people parking like shit with the #GCUM (garé comme une merde) and even buy stickers to put on cars if you dare :)
Baguette and milk vending machines? where do you live, I've been in Paris longer than you've been in this country and never saw any.
5:11 no it's not legal, the car need to be parked in the direction of the traffic. That black Mercedes should get a ticket but i'm not sure if the police have time to bother with that. And parking on the sidewalk is also illegal.
There is milk in the fridge as well, its where you find most of the milk brands and yes there are Special milk which not need to be in the fridge, but when there are Opened they need to be in the fridge as well. This is just false i am sorry.
Violette and rose ice creams... omg. It's an addiction :-p
eggs don't need to be refrigerated because the eggshell is thick enough not to crack and then allow salmonella to pass through it. With bad quality food the shell is too thin.
I've seen those public toilets in San Francisco and let me tell you I will not use them even when you have to pay for them.
Hi....can so relate to the Violette ice cream story.....when I went to south of Sweden a decade or so ago...I encountered Elderberry ice cream, which I had never heard of where I grew up in Canada. My Swedish hosts adored it and couldn't wait for me to try it....it was SOOOOO delicious....floral and sweet and mellow.....I ate altogether too much of it and have not ever encountered any again anywhere else.
Ooooh elderberry sounds delicious. I will keep an eye out for it!!
@@OuiInFrance I love anything flavored with cassis (black currant), so common in France but almost absent at least in the midwest (that is, north central) part of the US. (Why DO we call it midwest when it's really north central??)
I totally understand your reaction when seeing the hedgehog. When I lived in the US I was amazed seeing a possum in our yard once. And I also realized that Woody Woodpecker really existed in nature, I honestly believed he was totally imaginary. Have you ever tried lavender ice cream? So good.
Oh yes, I love all the "flowery" ice cream. AMAZING!
Milk, you can find both because this depends from the conservation treatment they have: sterilized= non refrigirated, pateurized or raw milk= refrigirated. Eggs did not need refrigeration if the are no washed, the natural protection is thus not removed...
I live 13 years in France and have never seen a baguette vending machine. Also, milk is in the fridge. Only long life milk is at room temperature in the store. But I would never buy that. About ice cream, or macaron, you also get lavender flavour, or rose flavour. It is devine :-)
I have not seen hedgehogs but I have seen the bread vending machines in neighboring towns. I knew all about locks when I took my canal boat trip thanks to you! Looking forward to reading your book-congrats on all the hard work!
Thank you so much, Amy!
Hello another funny video.
About public toilets, it depends. The first you showed, for instance, a free public ones in Paris.
Hedgehogs are becoming an endangered species in France. They get smashed by cars and poisoned because they eat slugs that get poisoned by insecticide.
Now, from today, 6th of May, in Roma, they introduced vending machine selling Pizza!
Is the pizza any good? They are popular here too but I've never tried.
@@OuiInFrance I've try one, they are good, a bit like the best supermarket brand pizza. Not like a restaurant but still good. By the way, my train station in Lyon has a vending machine for umbrellas! very handy!
There is kind of machine from several years in France around 10 or 15 years.
There's also violet and rose syrups ! I love it too ^^
they're oak proccesionary caterpillars, not pine :)
I NEVER saw a baguette machine in my entire life.
Eating horse meat has fallen into disuse, it is increasingly rare these days to come across a "horse butchery", it concerns more the elderly (I know that it was still done after World War II but it has become rare with industrial farming). I or my family have never eaten it. Regarding our hedgehogs, they are now in danger because their natural habitat is shrinking and that's a shame :/
Number 3 triggers me. Americans are afraid of non-pastered cheese but don't drink UHT milk, these makes no sens.
I have used UHT milk for years in the UK and France and it tastes no different to me. Just as well as it very handy during lockdown.
Wait.... american don't eat horse meat ? its really tasty tho :o
Horse is "sacred" in the American mind for two reasons : #1 their British heritage, British people already considered having a horse a privilege of the nobility, an animal significant of your rank and of your status, most notably during hunting parties and at war. Being seen is such high-regard made horses a definitive "no" the the question "should I eat this?". #2 The American Frontier era (also called "Old West" or "Wild West"), in which horses played a massive role for the colonial caravans, the cowboys guarding cattle or the army. Again, horse was put on a pedestal, and it reinforced the idea that eating a horse was not just wrong, but even immoral.
Meanwhile, we french people just kept on being the Chinese of Western Europe: "Hmmm, I wonder if it tastes good? Let's cook it and find out!"
If you like Violette ice cream than you should try sugar violette's they are violette's cristalized in sugar. They are a regional specialty.
Otherwise you can also get rose ice cream, rose jam. If it's an edible flower then it's used in some way. There are also some flower wines.
my grandma used to give me candies that were sugar-coated violette (the flower) petals, we also have mimosa "grain", that are kind of the same thing (sugar-coated plant part, maybe more the grain in this case), it's very old-fashioned (my grandma passed away 15/20 years ago), but I think you can find some if you look around a bit (maybe a gift shop or gift corner in a supermarket). I believe the ice cream you spoke of is based on the same taste. I'm wondering if this kind of candy is really specific to france. I don't think so.
you talked about lavande, I once had a go at a lavande-flavored ice cream in roussillon (where you can find the ocher mine, very nice place), but it was too strong :)
Hedgehogs is normal in Denmark too.
They are so cute, minding their own business. Easily scared. They usually stand still when they spot people... and if you get to close, or make any sudden movement they curl up. 🐌🐛🦔🐾🐾
I am a french living in America and just like you there are things I had never seen before like skunks ( I can't stand the smell) opossums and also all the squirrels that are everywhere!!
Yes, so true, it works both ways. I can't say I've seen an opossum here. I associate them with rabies ever since I was a kid and and a rabid one had to be put down by a cop in my backyard. Eeek. But we do have ragondins here that I see often! P.S. My husband is always amused by all the squirrels he sees in the US!
Squirrels in the US are annoying. When I was camping they would go into the tent and search the bags. I prefer French hedgehogs, they are loud when they eat at night, but they are not intrusive.
Because all those small animals are slaughtered in France because deemed " nuisibles".
@@towaritch Not the hedgehogs, they are more likely to end up ran over by cars in one areas.
French squirrels have a prettier color tho
Hi, Diane-- I love your videos. So informative, always interesting content, and well presented. I spent only a week in France, many years ago, would love to see more. So staying tuned. Thanks for this topic today-- very interesting.
Thank you so much!
In the UK and belgium a lot of public toilets also Incurr a charge. Until recently even Victoria station charged for the bathroom. Horse meat, we used to have boucheries chevalines that specialised in horse meat. Anyone who wants to try horse meat should start with a saucisson de Cheval. Parking wise, don't think you can compare the US to any European country. We don't have huge roads over here. So people park where they can. In small towns it's usually not a problem. In the town where I grew up you have to park on the pavement. As for reversing, maybe we're just better at it so we don't find it a problem :) and as a pedestrian we're just used to it. Every time I'm in France with my British husband he is confused by the implicit traffic rules, but they're normal for us.
Oh my goodness, no matter how we try we can’t understand the right hand priority rule, just no idea. I’m sure we must have annoyed the French many times.
The best French thing, well normand thing, is CAMEMBERT
never seen these caterpillars, (i live in northeast France). But I had never seen hedgehogs either until I moved to France. Anyway, love your vids, and your observations. Best wishes from your latest subscriber.
😳😖😳 No refrigerated milk ??? 😳😖😳 😱😬
Once you open the UHT stuff, you have to refrigerate it and you can find a smaller selection of refrigerated milk in most stores (whole and 2%)
The milk-egg question reminds me of something i often heard about USA : the us laws don’t allow non-sterilized cheese due to bacteria risk and things like that. Whereas France has a huge range of cheese « au lait cru » that would not be possible to find in us. Do you see what I mean? I ´ve heard some french youtubers living in the us speaking about this. (Maybe you already spoke avout this but I recently discovered your channel, maybe I didn’t get it)
It's not sterilized, it's that the milk has to be pasteurized. Raw unpasteurized milk is generally not allowed here, though sometimes farmers sell it directly at the farm.
you know what i'm french, and i never saw a baguette vending machine ever.
flowers taste good, we don't use them as much as one time, but roses, violettes, lavander, poppys, tagetes, cherry blossoms, they all taste good and make great sweets, icecream, or tea.
neither do i lol, surprised me
UGGH! UHT milk is _the worse_! French people go on and on about their dairy, but their milk is terrible. Sure, you have good cheese in France, but you can't do fresh dairy well. However, here in Ireland, we can.
Room temperature milk is always UHT treated to make it stable, fresh milk has to be in refrigerated cupboards... UHT milk tastes funny... then again, I never drink raw milk in France, when I came from Canada, the taste was off and bad to me.
Have you never heard of 'Spending a penny'? Most milk in supermarkets is Long Life. Parking on what you call the sidewalk is usually legal and often encouraged. If you want to experience locks, go canalling in England.
Only lait UHT is stored at room temperature, here in Austria too, and in Italy and..... Lait frais is refridgerated, at least where I bought in Corsica last time (also in Italy and here in Austria)
Le cheval est une viande maigre .
Elle est populaire dans le nord et le pas de calais, historiquement parce qu'elle était moins chère.
Un tartare de cheval ou un filet américain (tartare préparé ) est une expérience qui vaut le détour.
Et si vous en avez l'occasion essayez un rôti d'âne c'est la plus tendre des viandes.
Les normes d'hygiène sont très strictes , par exemple on ne vend pas et on ne mange pas de chevaux de courses en raison des traitements qu'ils reçoivent.
Sinon vous pouvez tourner vegan. 😇
So you can switch OFF your fridge freezer and save hundreds on bills now £12 was £350 before l switched it off.
Horse meat is less and less popular (because it's disgusting and people don't like the ideo of eating horses), especially among younger generations. It still has its uses since it's the best meat to consume if you have a lack of iron in your blood (or so I read). Well, at least we're not eating dogs ^^
They aren't parking backwards, they are just parking. In the UK too, you can park facing either way
When it comes to driving you ain’t lying. I’m a New Yorker and we are sane next to French drivers😂 one tried to drive my taxi off the road when heading to the airport 😮
in France, we do not put the eggs in the refrigerator because of the salmonella which is on the shell, we keep them at room temperature, there is a use-by date printed on the shell, and I have never been sick from eating eggs, it's true, I eat less and less eggs because they contain too much cholesterol, but I make omelettes with fried potatoes, I take potatoes that I cut into thin slice, I place these slices in the pan with olive oil, I brown them, and then I add the beaten eggs! a little salt and it's super good!
In Paris, there are no baguette vending machines.
Hedgehogs, don't touch them, they have been undergoing someking of epidemic for a few years now, they are dying like flies and we don't know why... And they are on the edge of extinction, it is an endangered species.
Horse meat tends to become rarer by the day. Paris had a lot of Horse meat butchers back in the day.
Glad to hear of those butchers are disappearing
I hear many people saw hedgehogs feeding on cat food. They are wild animals not supposed to eat food like that, especially on daily bases. Even domestic animals are not in very good shape eating the canned and dried food, lots of cancers and degenerative diseases....People are usually unaware and pretty naive to what extend we ruin living creatures' lives in very simple and stupid ways. It's sad. Animals are like children, they will try things and if they like it, they will continue. Especially if they don't have enough of their genuine natural food available in their habitat. I'm not saying it to blame humans, we can hear it very often anyway. It's just that I feel pity for the living creatures of all kind who suffer a lot in this world because of endless human intrusions. Hopefully there will be still more and more people who live close to the nature and teach others. They are many all over France, you can find plenty just on youtube.(I'm not speaking about greenwashing and green political agendas, the real thing.) Maybe a good tip for a video.
violet ice cream !!
nectar of the gods lol
How right you are Christophe ! First thing we always used to do when starting our holiday in Arcachon was rushing to the beach restaurant Le Bikini and ordering "une glace à la violette".The very taste of relaxation and summer, the very symbol of lovely vacations ahead. By the way candied violets or violet syrup are an excellent speciality from Toulouse.
Hedgehogs are nocturnal ; so much so that when they find themselves wandering around during the day because their nests have been destroyed, they become extremely vulnerable. Their skin is very thin and flies come and lay their eggs on them. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae begin to dig into the animal's flesh, reach a higher stage of development, and literally devour it alive. If you see a hedgehog outside the nest during the day, it's necessary to inform a care center as quickly as possible. It's a protected species; some people (very few in France unfortunately), are empowered and trained to give them care...
Small information in passing: the hedgehog which illustrates the thumbnail is an pygmy hedgehog of Africa 😉
I live in the South of Seine-Saint-Denis, and in the parc near my house there's a vendor who does only old school types of ice cream, so rose, violet, poppy, honey... It's amazing. The only other place I know that goes for curious flavours is the ice cream shop of the barri gotic in Barcelona lol (they went viral a few years ago when they sold marijuana ice cream)
Oh ça m'intéresse bien ça 😂 quelle est l'adresse du glacier ?
Moi aussi ça m’intéresse
Your processionary caterpillar moment was my poison ivy mment when I lived in the USA!
canal block is because there are different height differences, which allows boats to navigate safely
Pornic is a very nice place indeed! I'm french and live not far from it, i used to go there every summer but is ful of tourist during the hot season 😅
Fun fact: I'm french and never seen a baguette vending machine
Je vis dans un village, une commune voisine n'a plus de commerce, mais il y a une de ces machines mise en place par un boulanger d 'une commune voisine .
@@olivierdk2 Bonne initiative en vrai, j'avoue que je vis en ville et c'est pas le genre de trucs qu'on voit dans la rue ^^
Mais c'est surement parce qu'il n'y en a pas besoin
sérieux? Il y en a partout ici. Surtout dans les communes où tout a fermé.
Nor had l but they're all over TH-cam so will look when next en France
@@Pow3rus c'est peut-être pluS le cas en province? j'habite en idf depuis que je suis né
6:00 violette candies from the alps mountains are great as well. No sure if you can easily find them outside the mountains areas.
OH that"s why people pee in public
Many times I’ve seen men stop at the side of a road, granted more of a rural or long road, and they just stand there and pee. Brazenly, no attempt to even hide what they’re doing, in full view, not caring.
When i was in Paris i saw foie gras in a jar/ I've never seen that before
2:16 If eggs are healthy/organic, they do not need to be refrigerated! (I don’t have the correct scientific answer lol)
US wash eggs thus the egg shell is "weaker", more permeable; so bacteriae can penetrate eggs more easily
On the other hands, europe don't wash eggs, but since there's still organic materials on the shell, shops can not refregerate them: the condensation will help bacterial growth
@@osez111 thanks for the reply, I should have gone to her explanation before commenting 😅
@@carlycaroline07245 and for milk, well, i forget the regluations about milk in the us, so i can not tell you why it's refrigerated
it's usless in Europe since it is pateurize and embottled (is that a word ?) in a "sterile" room
@@osez111 this is unrelated but I learned from my french teacher that there is dried milk that people store in pantries. Sounded gross at first but why not have powder milk? XD
@@carlycaroline07245 Because powder milk has a disgusting taste
3:28 they're not slow at all. They're quite fast, that's why Sonic is fast.
I had never seen anything before I came to France.
Because I was born here :D
Violet ice cream? I've had it as syrup, but not as icecream.
Where the fuck are those baguette vending machines I've never seen any tf is this
Personally, Ive never ever seen a baguette vending machine in France !
Tu vie où ? Y'en a dans un village sur deux dans le nord est
@@Merwip Bah justement, à Caen on a pas besoin de distributeur, on a des boulangeries.
@@artimist0315 ah ben forcément dans les villes plus grandes y'en a pas besoin.
Dans les plus petits villages ça devient courant d'avoir un boulanger qui remplit plusieurs machines dans plusieurs villages plutôt que d'avoir un seul point de vente pour 5 villages.
Maintenant je commence même à en voir dans les villes moyennes, a côté de vrais boulangeries, ça ce développe très vite
No processionary caterpillards in Calvados (Normandy) 😸
When we bought our house over 20 years ago our local HyperU had a wine vending macine. It was built into the wall of the supermarket. Turn up with your empty bottles, money in the slots et voila! You don't see them thesedays. On the shelf is the UHT milk, fresh milk is normally stocked with the cheeses. Hate those caterpillars. Look out for Violette syrup, make for an interesting Kir.
Omg pay toilets. Visited Paris a few weeks ago. Didn't have cash on us because it was just a weekend (didn't take card) and my 6 year old was hitting critical limits. Took 30 minutes to find a bathroom after going to an ATM.
Why are toilets pay to use? Sanitation is important. Also these were 1 or 2€.
The one requesting payment are the cleanest because the money is used to fund the cleaning