Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Le Burger Time

Heh. New York Times does a piece on how hamburgers are now big in exclusive Paris restaurants.
"It is a startling turnaround in a country where a chef once sued McDonald’s for $2.7 million in damages over a poster that suggested he was dreaming of a Big Mac. Hamburgers were everything that French dining is not: informal, messy, fast and foreign."

This is good news. Me and Meredith had talked about a trip to a French restaurant for the upcoming anniversary. Now we can go to Whataburger.

It's interesting. The French have added their ideas to the burger -- odd spices, super-expensive meat. One chef sells his at $56 a pop.

I'll at least give them credit for trying. I tried several burgers in England, and they were universally terrible. It's like they were made as a statement of what they thought of American culture.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please take her somewhere besides Whataburger!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Yes, please do. She'll starve!