Category: Humor
Exotic potato chips from around the world.
Ten years ago, we traveled around Spain, back before anyone had turned the culinary lights on. It seemed like every restaurant in Spain had the same menu. And it was pretty much the Monty Python Spam sketch -- with ham instead of Spam.
On the way to Portugal, we stopped at a big, modern truck stop to fill up. Since it was lunch time, we thought we'd check out the restaurant. But when the special was ham, eggs, ham, ham, bacon, and ham, we decided to just buy some snacks at the attached mini-mart.
Imagine my reaction when the bag of Lays potato chips I'd picked up turned out to be "Jamon Jamon" flavored.
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How France is different from America.
Sometimes relations between the two countries are warm, sometimes frosty. But whichever way the wind blows, there's a 3,650-mile gulf between them. To wit:
France = Disgruntled transportation workers
America = Disgruntled writers
France = Obsessed with preserving the French language
America = Obsessed with Britney Spears
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Lyon in the Desert
Winner of the "more money than sense" award, a Dubai entrepreneur has decided to replicate the city of Lyon, France in Dubai City – at a cost of €500 million.
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