Ta mère a un beau jardin. Excuse me if my French is poor. I only started learning French two months ago. This video was very fun; you look so comfortable and relaxed. Your mother is lovely, too. Too bad Rémy did not want to be on camera today. Bonne soirée, Marie.
When your Dad has the chance / the time,introduce him to us Marie! Mom is a riot! Like to hear you speak the French language. And you English is getting better Marie!
C'est vrai Marie. Tu parles très bien l'anglais et en plus, j'ai l'impression que tu te sens de plus en plus à l'aise quand tu le parles. Tu fais énormément de progrès. Chapeau! Tu nous présentes ton papa un de ces quatre? Bonne continuation!
Not all Americans have been ruined by mass produced soft bread. My mother baked her own bread and the best part was the crust compared to what you would buy in a store. America used to shut down on Sunday too. There were even "Blue Laws" regarding what could and could not be done on Sunday. This really started to disappear in the 1970s.
One of the questions a viewer asked, “How do you fit in such small cares”. When I visited Europe I drove in a number of different countries of Europe, the reason is two fold: 1) the streets are narrow, except on the autobahn the lanes are wider. 2) more importantly is the price of gas per gallon. In France it’s about 7.00 U.S. dollars a gallon. It is quit expensive to fill your tank, not only that there’s a difference between an Imperial gallon and the U. S. gallon. Small cars are preferable in all of Europe for that reason.
Thx Marie! Silly stereotypes and misconceptions are so common! I love to “get my crunch on” with some Fritos chips! Bread crust is crunchy. I’m not French but I’ve always admired the cultural uniqueness of France! One of my own stereotypical thoughts is that the French kiss better than others! I can only imagine! -Terry, Canoga Park
Back when my mom and dad grew up. In the 1940’s and 50’s everything was closed on Sunday. I think it still should be. If you plan to go somewhere, just be sure to fill up your car with gas on Saturday. Most of your questions seem to be coming from young viewers, as most of them seem odd for me as well, but I am 60 years old.
Hi Mom!!! LOL! I think in every video you have made with questions about France there has been the "eating snails" question. I don't know why people keep asking that, lol, but I think you're safe to no longer have to answer it. Bon Apple Tea for when you have escargot! LOL! Bonne Journee! ~Be Blessed
When i was in Canada and barely knew any French, I was surprised that people kept wishing me a good journey. Sure, you would instantly realize I was a tourist, but still! Of course, they were saying "Bonne journée". 😀 I learned many things from misunderstanding awkwardly.
Yes, the roads in Europe are very narrow, especially in the countryside, I can't see driving an American car on those roads without constantly causing traffic jams. Love that you did this video, remembering when you tried to pronounce hard English words. Very entertaining and informative. Please do more of this type of videos. ✌️😎
Have you been to car shows in France? Have you seen the 1955 Citroen DS, the Citroen SM, and the 1986 Citroen CX 25 (my favorite and well ahead of its time). Nothing smells as good as walking inside the walled portion of Quebec City and smelling fresh bread baking. Hmmmm, fresh baguettes!
Bon appétit translates in English to “good appetite”. “Appetite” is your hunger and anticipation for an upcoming meal. So you are wishing/hoping that the person will truly enjoy the food they are about to eat. A nice wish I think. Love the video.
French bread bought from a French bakery is so good it should be classified as an addictive substance. Freshly baked French Bread and a mug of black coffee is all I needed for breakfast when I visited France. I have no idea why McDonalds are so popular in France, when there are so many bakeries around…
I like to call driving my big American truck on country back roads and encountering oncoming farm equipment when I'm traveling at high rates of speed, "straddle the ditch and pray the farmer can see me."
It's not just a French thing, I think it's a European thing. I came home once to find my father reading a news paper with all the windows closed like it was nothing. It was 97°F outside. I immediately turned on the air conditioning and set it to 64°F. I keep my house at 66-68°F during the summer. Luke warm water? 🤮 We love our beverages ice cold in the US. Especially our beer. Lol.
Marie...your Mother is lovely and her smile is so warm and genuine! I have been a home baker for many years and it took all of them to actually become proficient at making baguettes...also pizza. Very few ingredients in a baguette, but technique is everything! Wish I had access to an actual French boulangerie so I could just buy them once in a while. I am enjoying your content, and your accent is charming. Keep the videos coming...love hearing about France! ❤❤
I think the person asking about the bread has only ever had store bought, commercially produced sliced bread. It has a thinner, softer crust. They’re not used to bread that has been properly baked in a real oven, or even better, a wood fired oven. A good bread should have a hard crust and should sound hollow when tapped with your finger. And I think, and hope, that the bon apple tea comment was a joke. That can’t be serious... By the way, your mom is so cool. I love her garden gnomes behind you.
The crustiness of the bread comes from adding water to the oven, creating steam. It's steam that makes that hard crust. I've made bread like that and either you have to bake the bread in a Dutch oven with a lid to preserve the steam, or put a pan with water or ice cubes in the oven while the bread bakes. I love it!
M - When you visit New Orleans, you'll find good French bread and rolls. You may also discover fried soft crab sandwiches. Some people are turned off by the legs (fins) sticking out of both sides of the bun!
Frenchy, absolutely agree w/u concerning bread crust. Shutting down on Sundays - the little mid-western town I grew up in used to shutdown, u could go to a gas station for gas or a theater to watch a movie, but that was it - on Sundays until the late 1970’s. Once McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King’s were built, they as well as Kmart (discount store), were open 7 days/week. Then a small mall was built and then almost everything was open 7 days. Very true - English is an odd language.
English is bizarre due to so many words sounding the same but meaning different things. French is hard for everyone, though. Love these sessions you do.
Breaking the teeth was an exaggeration. Here in the states, most of our breads are super soft. Almost to where the crust is as soft as the inside. Another thing is most of the bread we eat we make sandwiches with it, so that loaf you showed is not for sandwiches, but many bakeries here sell break just like that. It’s just not our normal bread. It would be called a speciality bread.
Actually it’s incredibly delicious to make a sandwich with. If you want to go all-in with the French theme : a classic Parisian Jambon-Buerre (Ham-Butter) sandwich : 8-12 ins of a GOOD baguette (or even better, a skinny baguette called a ficelle if your bakery makes them) + lots of GOOD slightly salted butter (think Kerry Gold, etc) + GOOD very thinly sliced ham - that’s it !
Timecode 0:47 Why do you like warm water so much? 1:09 Do you hate air conditioning? 1:41 Why do you INSIST on such tiny meals? 2:03 why is your bread so damn crusty? 3:30 What's a crêpe? Do you mean tortilla? 3:54 What's wrong with your tacos? 4:28 How do you manage to fit in such tiny cars? 5:13 Why does the whole country shut down on Sunday? 6:16 You know about salad, right? 6:34 You really have a thing for Nutella, don't you? 7:25 What's going on with your keyboard? 7:42 What have you done to the Roman alphabet? 8:46 You know there's already something called "poutine", right? 9:11 why are you so obsessed with apple tea? 9:45 Is toilet paper in France really pink? 10:10 Why do French people eat snails? 10:38 Do you need to speak French in Paris? 11:08 Is it expensive to live in Paris?
Enjoyed that, thank you. The ice thing is a definitely different here than there (or Europe). Also agree on English language. There is so much slang that is embedded into everyday talk that I can see how it can be very difficult to learn/understand.
What a great video dear.i remember the narrow roads especially in the German countryside.personally i loved trying all the different food especially in France and Greece.your wonderful sense of humor showed all through this video.tell your Mom hello😁😁😁😁
My God, Marie, your videos are getting better and better! This was so fun! Let me throw in my two cents worth...... Crusty French bread is AWESOME! I laughed so much at the "apple tea" part, before you got it! Finally, I LOVE Escargot! But I also love alligator, crawdads, and the absolute best.....Frog's legs! You must have some when you get down to "Nawleens!" A big "HI!' to your Mom!
I watched a year old video of the interview with Nate and Nathalie, the French American couple, and I enjoyed it. I am glad to hear that Nathalie is happy here in America. Her English is excellent. I give her credit for being able to adjust to a new culture.
This video was extremely entertaining. And funny!!! You were fantastic as usual . The “bone Apple tea” comment was hilarious!!!! Every American I’ve known knows that it means have a good meal. The snail comment was ridiculous and you handled it perfectly as well . You can add rattlesnakes, turtles and armadillos to types of animals eaten in the states, so, why did that person have a problem with the snails, which by the way , are eaten in the states as well!!. Great job and keep the videos coming!!! 😎👍👍👍👍👍👍
While I've never been to Paris (outside of CDG Airport), the topic of bread reminds me that it feels like it's been entirely too long since I spent any amount of time in Germany (though, it's only been 15 months or so)...because I love their rolls and the various meats that you can have served with them. It's just...perfect. Though, taking a step back, it's really just the bakeries. Between the smells (OMG, THE SMELLS!) and the food...man, I can't wait to go back.
People are so intolerant of different cultures, societies and customs. I find it interesting to learn about other countries customs, foods, people, societies..etc. French is so nice to listen to.
Fitting in tiny cars explains the tiny portions of food. The best bread in the world, and the crust is the essence of yum yum. The world is composed of all humans but the cultures are unique and awesome.
Air Conditioning: When French people are overheated - - like during ‘un canicule’, they like to cool off. But France is a ‘west-coast’ climate that is mostly cool and dry. As the French girl that I sleep with describes it, “…it’s always cold and raining”. So there is not much need for “climatisation” and when you don’t need something, it doesn’t make economic sense to have something.
I like watching your videos and learning about France. I feel like most prejudice is based on ignorance and learning how different people live helps eliminate that.
Mercy buckets. My favourite part was your parlez avec maman en Francais. Baguettes are very crusty. Do you get them in France? 😉 How about Pillsbury Cresent Rolls, do you have them? They are like croissants and not at the same time. When you visit the USA you will have to try one .
De belles fleurs et jardin, mais encore plus de belles Françaises ! 🥰 Les questions, cependant, étaient assez cons, mais ce n'est pas de ta faute! 😂 En ce qui concerne le pain - je pense pas qu'une baguette que j'ai achetée en France soit jamais arrivée à la maison avant que j'aie déjà bouffé le quignon! 🥖😋 Beautiful flowers and garden, but even more beautiful French women! 🥰 The questions, however, were pretty dumb, but it's not your fault! 😂 As for the bread - I don't think a baguette I bought in France ever made it home before I had already eaten the end of it !🥖😋
Bill, If you have time, I know you have important responsibilities with work, but I’m trying to remember the name of a particular shape of bread in France. My memory on this is foggy. The very narrow, long bread, was the baguette, I think. The one I’m trying to remember was about 2 feet long and about 5 inches wide. I know the much narrower one of the same length, as I remember it, was very popular, but it may have been that the wider version was the most popular. At least the family I lived with, always got the wider one. It’s just bugging me that I can’t recall the name of that wider version. As I recall, there were several other shapes and sizes as well, but the names of those don’t really interest me. If you don’t have time for this minutiae, I understand. For breakfast, I used to have 2 or 3 slices of bread, and I would push a slice of Camembert into each one. I thought it was delicious. I still love Camembert and should get it more often. Have a good week ahead. Mike
@@michaelcrummy8397 Hey Mike, You must be psychic as I was just typing a reply to Steve (below) about bread. In any case : Baguette Type French Breads Une baguette - typical French bread loaf Un pain - bigger than the baguette Une ficelle - like a baguette but smaller and/or thinner. It’s also called “une flûte” Un bâtard - bigger than the baguette, but smaller than le pain (yes, the name means “bastard”… because it’s a mix between une baguette and un pain!). It’s also sometimes called “une flûte”… so it’s confusing… I THINK you’re talking about “un bâtard” if it was about as long as a baguette, but fatter - but the same taste and consistency as a baguette Marie - if you’re reading this please correct me as you’re a “much more reliable source” than me ! 😂 / Bill
I like the hat. :) French Fries in tacos? Reminds me of potato chip sandwiches, or sugar sandwiches. And, yes, the latter is just sugar sprinkled on bread! I think folks don't appreciate the general climate of France compared to much of the United States. For example, the Ohio valley (where I live) is classified as having a sub-tropical environment. All I know is that it can get very hot & humid during the summer.
Long ago and far away we had floral print TP and in different shades, similar to paper towels. Now white seems to be it . Probably due to manufacturers more than consumers. American fresh baked bread from a local bakery has a crust. American bread is too sweet. Crepes and pancakes two separate things. Crepes are available at IHOP as well as pancakes. The garden (backyard?) is very pretty. Once upon a time in America there were blue laws and most businesses closed on Sundays. I am anxious for Marie's visit to the Normandy coast.
Quand tu (Marie) as demandé à ta mère si “air conditioning” se trouve souvent en France, peut-être elle a répondu au midi de la France, ou il fait plus chaud qu’au nord du pays. Ça fait du bon sens. Après la réponse de la mère de Marie, Marie a dit “ in the towns”. Peut-être elle voulait dire, “in the south”. Je ne veux pas parler pour Marie. It would make perfect sense that air conditioning would be more common in the south of France where it’s warmer.
Have you heard of the Ford Vedette? They were made predominantly in the 1950s. Are there classic car clubs near you? Are there still Jazz and Blues concerts near Tours?
What came first, the chicken or the egg? J’aimais du pain croustillant avec du Camembert là dedans quand j’étais en France. Quand je regardais les véhicules à Tours en ta vidéo, je ne crois pas que la différence entre la taille des voitures aux Etats-Unis, en comparaison à la France, est si différente qu’autrefois. Il y avait sûrement une différence plus évidente en la décennie des 1970s, par example. J’ai une voiture très petite que j’aime pour l’aise du parking et pour l’économie de l’essence. Vidéo amusante Marie. Salut à ta mère. Je pense qu’elle a un peu l’envie de devenir une étoile de l’écran à Paris ou Hollywood. Veuilles, s’il te plaît, demander à ton père s’il connaît la musique de Bruce Springsteen. “Baby we were born to run”! Il est né et il vive toujours en New Jersey, mon état de naissance et de résidence. Voyage sain et sauf à Tours.
Ok so people in different cultures say and write things differently, they’re not « wrong ». Famous Vladimir’s name is in Cyrillic alphabet, so it’s transcribed differently in English and French to get the right pronunciation. French spellings are weird, but imagine what people learning English think of : laugh vs though, choir, colonel, finite vs infinite etc.
The French like their bread ‘croustillant’. It _can_ break your teeth, Marie, if the baguette is allowed to linger for too many days. My father-in-law had an expression for it: ‘pain à chien’
English is weird, and so is French. All natural languages are weird, because they were all created by people with no one in charge. The quirks and inconsistencies of languages can be fun if you look at them the right way. I like crusty bread. I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area, and a lot of the sourdough bread we have here is crusty. There are other good types of bread that aren't crusty. Jewish challah doesn't have a thick crust because it has eggs in it.
Merci, Marie. J'ai presque tombe sur le tapis quand j'ai entendu la partie avec le "bone apple tea". Et je suis anglais! (Quelquefois, j'ai honte d'etre du meme pays que ces gens). Et bonjour a Maman aussi. Une res jolie et gentille jeune dame, comme sa fille 😄
American cars are made for big people driving in wide open spaces. Other than Northeastern states (where cities were built long before the horseless carriage existed), US cities are planned with wide, straight roads, and there can be hundreds of miles between major cities. Plenty of room to stretch out. And Americans tend to be bigger because food is so ridiculously abundant here. Bigger people need bigger interiors to sit in when driving cars. So American cars are built for someone that averages 1.8 m and 84 kg. I believe European and Asian brands build cars for someone averaging 1.75 m and 70 kg.
Twenty years ago I knew a guy who lived in Le Mans and studied at a university in Paris because Paris was so expensive to live. There were neighborhoods in the north and south suburbs that would have been comparable in price, but they weren't very nice neighborhoods comparatively, and the train into Paris from Le Mans wasn't much longer, if at all, than public transit from some of the cheaper neighborhoods. As for the pink toilet paper, I liked it because it wasn't the brown toilet paper. The roughest toilet paper was always brown, and the softest never was! My apartment in Limoges was always so hot all summer long, but my friends apartment was always nice and cool. My building was cinder block, and his was old thick stone. The apartment was also second floor and north facing. I was jealous. He also kept the shutters closed all day, and I was too dumb to do the same. BTW your mom has a nice yard! I'm guessing she lives in a smaller town? It looks really big!
There's no obese people in France because they only go to fast food restaurants once or twice a year. Also at one time the French did pronounce consonants at the end of words when old French was more like Latin.
Re: Air Conditioning and small cars: Energy costs are much higher in France than in the US. If you filled your SUV here in France it would easily cost you $300 or more. Electricity is mostly nuclear, so running an air conditioner would also cost about $300 a month. Re: Why do French people eat snails (and also frog legs): If you cover things in garlic butter, you can fool yourself into thinking they are chicken. Americans should know that these practices go back to the 1790's, when the US government reneged on its loans from France from the US revolution. The French King loaned the US enough money to feed France for three years--so they answer is that the French had to eat some strange things to help the US win the American Revolution. Re: Bread: We have a van come by every day that brings us delicious fresh bread in the morning, so it isn't hard. Much better than sliced stuff that comes out of a plastic bag...
French words have so many letters, producing so few sounds. Very inefficient. :) But English pronunciation is not easy to learn. For example, you simply have to memorize how to pronounce words that end in "ough", such as tough, trough, though and through. Four words, four different ways to pronounce "ough". When I was a kid (1970s), most stores here in the USA were closed on Sundays. And on weekdays, stores would usually close by around 6pm except on one day when many would stay open as late as 9pm (Thursday, I believe). Very different now.
ahahaha je suis une americaine et j'adore ta video! C'est tres interessant:) au fait, en amerique, on ne mange pas les alligators, je connais seulement une personne qui l'a fait et c'etait comme defi. peut-etre c'est juste car j'habite au Nord mais quand meme;) bisousss
Do your cars have automatic transmissions? I have heard that it is common that European vehicles don't. That might make them thinner. Early US cars were thinner because the structures didn't need other parts. I have a garage on my property from the 1920's that I cannot fit a car in.
In America, the phrase "French bread" means a stale (but unsliced) long skinny loaf of cheap white bread. There are people who like it (e.g., my dad does), but I don't understand why. White bread is a crime against humanity as far as I'm concerned. And yes, French bread for some reason is always really hard (unlike Italian bread, which is white but can be soft, though it goes stale very quickly.) So is the term "French bread" as we use it a misnomer, or does France not have whole-grain or multi-grain breads? I know for a fact that Germany has good bread, and France is _right_ next door, so you'd think... A crepe is what you get if you're making pancakes but only put in half the flour, so the batter spreads out really thin in the pan. Tacos have only started to spread to Europe within the last couple of decades (about three or four decades behind their arrival in the Midwest), so presumably better ones will arrive in due time. All of Europe has those tiny cars. It's because their cities were built before the invention of the horse-drawn wagon or the sidewalk or the front yard; and so the streets are really narrow (about half the width of a single lane of traffic in America), and there's no room to expand them, because the buildings are literally right up against the streets. So they all have to drive those dinky little cars that could park diagonally between the seats of an SUV, if someone installed a ramp so they could get up there. America experimented with subcompact cars during and after the Energy Crisis, but then in the early nineties the car reviewers over here all started to focus on safety ratings, and everyone (especially everyone with children) started switching from subcompact cars to minivans, and then to larger and larger SUVs. This was possible because our roads, including city streets, have always been large enough to accommodate anything up to a semi truck, and if a street starts feeling too narrow the city can always recover an entire lane by limiting on-street parking to one side (because, yes, our streets were originally built with room to park horse-drawn wagons along the edges, because by the time we started building cities in the late seventeenth century, horse-drawn wagons were common), and on top of that American municipalities have pretty much always reserved the right to expand the streets into the "devil strip" / "berm" / "verge" / "sidewalk buffer" / whatever you call the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street (because yes, of course we always had separate walking paths along the sides of roads, because nobody wants to walk in the same lane as the horse-drawn wagons). And if all of that STILL isn't enough, they make the street one-way (because, again, yes, of course all of our cities were built with streets intended to accommodate at least two moving lanes of traffic, so that horse-drawn wagons moving in opposite directions could pass each other, without squeezing, and could do so _between_ the stationary wagons drawn up along the edges; Canada is the same way, because if there's one thing North America has always had more of than Europe, it's space; and, as noted, horse-drawn wagons were already commonplace when our first cities were built, unless you count the pueblos as cities). I've heard it said that if you run into a Paris shopkeeper who insists on speaking French, all you have to do is speak a few sentences of really badly mangled French; the pain of hearing the language spoken so badly will convince the shopkeeper to relent and speak English. Alternatively, rattle off a quick paragraph of any language he doesn't know, so he thinks that speaking English is a compromise / meeting you halfway.
I'm an American and I love a firm crust on bread. However, a lot of Americans only eat really soft (and tasteless) bread, and the question for them is why, why, WHY???
You look exactly like your mother except your mother lightens her hair and she's older. As far as those snails there's a lot of people in the US that eat snails my Mother is one of them and I have a couple of friends also but for me I would never eat snail. And the bread I can't believe somebody's talking about breaking their tooth on a piece of bread.... really! That bread you just showed in your video is crunchy on the outside nice on the inside and soft and bouncy when you squish it I would like that type of bread and I would put butter on it and I would eat it either with a salad or a bowl of soup. I have never been served bead that was so hard that it would break my tooth. I know here in America if you leave bread out for a few days it will get hard as a rock almost, but it still wouldn't break your tooth. Some people are weird. I'm glad you did this video just to show the weird questions that you get and it's unbelievable what stupid questions that they ask you.
Sorry, but I do not know of any Americans that eat snails other than your mom that you mentioned. I'm not saying that snails are something you should not eat, but rather snails are just something the vast, vast majority of people in the U. S. do not eat. Even in France, people usually eat snails only on festive moments such as Christmas and New Year's Day due to the fact they are expensive.
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Ta mère a un beau jardin. Excuse me if my French is poor. I only started learning French two months ago. This video was very fun; you look so comfortable and relaxed. Your mother is lovely, too. Too bad Rémy did not want to be on camera today. Bonne soirée, Marie.
When your Dad has the chance / the time,introduce him to us Marie!
Mom is a riot! Like to hear you speak the French language. And you English is getting better Marie!
C'est vrai Marie. Tu parles très bien l'anglais et en plus, j'ai l'impression que tu te sens de plus en plus à l'aise quand tu le parles. Tu fais énormément de progrès. Chapeau! Tu nous présentes ton papa un de ces quatre? Bonne continuation!
@@frenchfan3368 D'accord ! Son anglais est presque aussi bon que le mien ! …… J'aimerais pouvoir en dire autant de mon français ! 😂
Oh, I was so jealous of you smelling that baguette at 3:31. French bread is the best!
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Not all Americans have been ruined by mass produced soft bread. My mother baked her own bread and the best part was the crust compared to what you would buy in a store. America used to shut down on Sunday too. There were even "Blue Laws" regarding what could and could not be done on Sunday. This really started to disappear in the 1970s.
My ancestors are from LaRochelle, France and ended up in south Louisiana. I’ve been to France three times, loved each trip.
La rochelle was start harbor for america. Your ancesters were between sedan reims and bruxelles. Look geneanet.
One of the questions a viewer asked, “How do you fit in such small cares”. When I visited Europe I drove in a number of different countries of Europe, the reason is two fold:
1) the streets are narrow, except on the autobahn the lanes are wider. 2) more importantly is the price of gas per gallon. In France it’s about 7.00 U.S. dollars a gallon. It is quit expensive to fill your tank, not only that there’s a difference between an Imperial gallon and the U. S. gallon. Small cars are preferable in all of Europe for that reason.
Thx Marie! Silly stereotypes and misconceptions are so common! I love to “get my crunch on” with some Fritos chips! Bread crust is crunchy. I’m not French but I’ve always admired the cultural uniqueness of France! One of my own stereotypical thoughts is that the French kiss better than others! I can only imagine! -Terry, Canoga Park
Bon Jour, Mama. Beautiful background. Such a sunny Sunday. I liked your straw hat and baguette. Bon Apetit.
Back when my mom and dad grew up. In the 1940’s and 50’s everything was closed on Sunday. I think it still should be. If you plan to go somewhere, just be sure to fill up your car with gas on Saturday. Most of your questions seem to be coming from young viewers, as most of them seem odd for me as well, but I am 60 years old.
Hi Mom!!! LOL! I think in every video you have made with questions about France there has been the "eating snails" question. I don't know why people keep asking that, lol, but I think you're safe to no longer have to answer it. Bon Apple Tea for when you have escargot! LOL! Bonne Journee! ~Be Blessed
When i was in Canada and barely knew any French, I was surprised that people kept wishing me a good journey. Sure, you would instantly realize I was a tourist, but still! Of course, they were saying "Bonne journée". 😀 I learned many things from misunderstanding awkwardly.
Yes, the roads in Europe are very narrow, especially in the countryside, I can't see driving an American car on those roads without constantly causing traffic jams. Love that you did this video, remembering when you tried to pronounce hard English words. Very entertaining and informative. Please do more of this type of videos. ✌️😎
How do you fit in such tiny cars? Must be the tiny portions, haha.😄
Have you been to car shows in France? Have you seen the 1955 Citroen DS, the Citroen SM, and the 1986 Citroen CX 25 (my favorite and well ahead of its time). Nothing smells as good as walking inside the walled portion of Quebec City and smelling fresh bread baking. Hmmmm, fresh baguettes!
you are always good for a smile... could listen to you talk all day... thank you...
Bon appétit translates in English to “good appetite”. “Appetite” is your hunger and anticipation for an upcoming meal. So you are wishing/hoping that the person will truly enjoy the food they are about to eat. A nice wish I think. Love the video.
Nice kick back video for Sunday. 😀 Have to say the background is pretty and picture quality is awesome.
French bread bought from a French bakery is so good it should be classified as an addictive substance. Freshly baked French Bread and a mug of black coffee is all I needed for breakfast when I visited France. I have no idea why McDonalds are so popular in France, when there are so many bakeries around…
It's true ,it is not always easy to understand but people will never forget how you made them feel...
I like to call driving my big American truck on country back roads and encountering oncoming farm equipment when I'm traveling at high rates of speed, "straddle the ditch and pray the farmer can see me."
I am so glad your mother stepped into the video. She looks so cute!
I spent a year in Grenoble as an assistant d'anglais. Best year of my life!
Our bread is terrible. I wish I could get some good French bread. Your mom's garden is beautiful. Thanks for sharing and stay well.
It's not just a French thing, I think it's a European thing. I came home once to find my father reading a news paper with all the windows closed like it was nothing. It was 97°F outside. I immediately turned on the air conditioning and set it to 64°F. I keep my house at 66-68°F during the summer. Luke warm water? 🤮 We love our beverages ice cold in the US. Especially our beer. Lol.
To me, 64°F is way too cold for air conditioning.
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Marie...your Mother is lovely and her smile is so warm and genuine! I have been a home baker for many years and it took all of them to actually become proficient at making baguettes...also pizza. Very few ingredients in a baguette, but technique is everything! Wish I had access to an actual French boulangerie so I could just buy them once in a while. I am enjoying your content, and your accent is charming. Keep the videos coming...love hearing about France! ❤❤
Kansas Grandpa is here 1st this time...God Bless you Marie...Two Parts to good bread. Crust and Crumb....Americans like squishy bread.
I think the person asking about the bread has only ever had store bought, commercially produced sliced bread. It has a thinner, softer crust. They’re not used to bread that has been properly baked in a real oven, or even better, a wood fired oven. A good bread should have a hard crust and should sound hollow when tapped with your finger. And I think, and hope, that the bon apple tea comment was a joke. That can’t be serious... By the way, your mom is so cool. I love her garden gnomes behind you.
The crustiness of the bread comes from adding water to the oven, creating steam. It's steam that makes that hard crust. I've made bread like that and either you have to bake the bread in a Dutch oven with a lid to preserve the steam, or put a pan with water or ice cubes in the oven while the bread bakes. I love it!
@@catherinelw9365 You realize, of course, that roughly 80% of Americans think of the crust as the part of the bread that you cut off and throw away.
M - When you visit New Orleans, you'll find good French bread and rolls. You may also discover fried soft crab sandwiches. Some people are turned off by the legs (fins) sticking out of both sides of the bun!
Frenchy, absolutely agree w/u concerning bread crust.
Shutting down on Sundays - the little mid-western town I grew up in used to shutdown, u could go to a gas station for gas or a theater to watch a movie, but that was it - on Sundays until the late 1970’s. Once McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King’s were built, they as well as Kmart (discount store), were open 7 days/week. Then a small mall was built and then almost everything was open 7 days.
Very true - English is an odd language.
English is bizarre due to so many words sounding the same but meaning different things. French is hard for everyone, though.
Love these sessions you do.
Breaking the teeth was an exaggeration. Here in the states, most of our breads are super soft. Almost to where the crust is as soft as the inside. Another thing is most of the bread we eat we make sandwiches with it, so that loaf you showed is not for sandwiches, but many bakeries here sell break just like that. It’s just not our normal bread. It would be called a speciality bread.
Actually it’s incredibly delicious to make a sandwich with. If you want to go all-in with the French theme : a classic Parisian Jambon-Buerre (Ham-Butter) sandwich : 8-12 ins of a GOOD baguette (or even better, a skinny baguette called a ficelle if your bakery makes them) + lots of GOOD slightly salted butter (think Kerry Gold, etc) + GOOD very thinly sliced ham - that’s it !
I love crusty bread, but I draw the line at french fries in tacos lol. Love your moms yard, the flowers are beautiful
I agree, real bread is crusty. American "bread" is like eating a cleaning sponge. I love your videos.
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0:47 Why do you like warm water so much?
1:09 Do you hate air conditioning?
1:41 Why do you INSIST on such tiny meals?
2:03 why is your bread so damn crusty?
3:30 What's a crêpe? Do you mean tortilla?
3:54 What's wrong with your tacos?
4:28 How do you manage to fit in such tiny cars?
5:13 Why does the whole country shut down on Sunday?
6:16 You know about salad, right?
6:34 You really have a thing for Nutella, don't you?
7:25 What's going on with your keyboard?
7:42 What have you done to the Roman alphabet?
8:46 You know there's already something called "poutine", right?
9:11 why are you so obsessed with apple tea?
9:45 Is toilet paper in France really pink?
10:10 Why do French people eat snails?
10:38 Do you need to speak French in Paris?
11:08 Is it expensive to live in Paris?
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I like French baguettes. I wish I had tried other breads during my brief visit to France years ago.
Le thé aux pommes a l'air délicieux !
Enjoyed that, thank you. The ice thing is a definitely different here than there (or Europe). Also agree on English language. There is so much slang that is embedded into everyday talk that I can see how it can be very difficult to learn/understand.
What a great video dear.i remember the narrow roads especially in the German countryside.personally i loved trying all the different food especially in France and Greece.your wonderful sense of humor showed all through this video.tell your Mom hello😁😁😁😁
My God, Marie, your videos are getting better and better! This was so fun! Let me throw in my two cents worth...... Crusty French bread is AWESOME! I laughed so much at the "apple tea" part, before you got it! Finally, I LOVE Escargot! But I also love alligator, crawdads, and the absolute best.....Frog's legs! You must have some when you get down to "Nawleens!" A big "HI!' to your Mom!
I watched a year old video of the interview with Nate and Nathalie, the French American couple, and I enjoyed it. I am glad to hear that Nathalie is happy here in America. Her English is excellent. I give her credit for being able to adjust to a new culture.
This video was extremely entertaining. And funny!!! You were fantastic as usual . The “bone Apple tea” comment was hilarious!!!! Every American I’ve known knows that it means have a good meal. The snail comment was ridiculous and you handled it perfectly as well . You can add rattlesnakes, turtles and armadillos to types of animals eaten in the states, so, why did that person have a problem with the snails, which by the way , are eaten in the states as well!!. Great job and keep the videos coming!!! 😎👍👍👍👍👍👍
While I've never been to Paris (outside of CDG Airport), the topic of bread reminds me that it feels like it's been entirely too long since I spent any amount of time in Germany (though, it's only been 15 months or so)...because I love their rolls and the various meats that you can have served with them. It's just...perfect. Though, taking a step back, it's really just the bakeries. Between the smells (OMG, THE SMELLS!) and the food...man, I can't wait to go back.
I always enjoy your videos. Your mum seems very sweet. Its always fascinating learning about different cultures.
People are so intolerant of different cultures, societies and customs. I find it interesting to learn about other countries customs, foods, people, societies..etc. French is so nice to listen to.
Fitting in tiny cars explains the tiny portions of food. The best bread in the world, and the crust is the essence of yum yum. The world is composed of all humans but the cultures are unique and awesome.
Great video Marie. I got lots of laughs from it. Please do more of this type in the future 😝
Your Mom is very sweet. (From California).
It amazing how much you look like your mom
Air Conditioning: When French people are overheated - - like during ‘un canicule’, they like to cool off. But France is a ‘west-coast’ climate that is mostly cool and dry. As the French girl that I sleep with describes it, “…it’s always cold and raining”. So there is not much need for “climatisation” and when you don’t need something, it doesn’t make economic sense to have something.
Thank you for putting a smile on my face Marie
The Best Bread is in North Jersey and NYC , That nice hard bread the best . It all in the water.
I drive a mini cooper. Are there a lot of those there? This was great! Really made me laugh a few times. Hugs from Idaho!
Yup ! Those cars are so cute!
I like watching your videos and learning about France. I feel like most prejudice is based on ignorance and learning how different people live helps eliminate that.
I assume you could come to America and a restaurant would hire you for your French accent.
Mercy buckets. My favourite part was your parlez avec maman en Francais. Baguettes are very crusty. Do you get them in France? 😉 How about Pillsbury Cresent Rolls, do you have them? They are like croissants and not at the same time. When you visit the USA you will have to try one .
Was that your mother? She's beautiful. Tell her hello from me, Eduardo in Florida USA.
De belles fleurs et jardin, mais encore plus de belles Françaises ! 🥰 Les questions, cependant, étaient assez cons, mais ce n'est pas de ta faute! 😂 En ce qui concerne le pain - je pense pas qu'une baguette que j'ai achetée en France soit jamais arrivée à la maison avant que j'aie déjà bouffé le quignon! 🥖😋
Beautiful flowers and garden, but even more beautiful French women! 🥰 The questions, however, were pretty dumb, but it's not your fault! 😂 As for the bread - I don't think a baguette I bought in France ever made it home before I had already eaten the end of it !🥖😋
Bill, If you have time, I know you have important responsibilities with work, but I’m trying to remember the name of a particular shape of bread in France. My memory on this is foggy. The very narrow, long bread, was the baguette, I think. The one I’m trying to remember was about 2 feet long and about 5 inches wide. I know the much narrower one of the same length, as I remember it, was very popular, but it may have been that the wider version was the most popular. At least the family I lived with, always got the wider one. It’s just bugging me that I can’t recall the name of that wider version. As I recall, there were several other shapes and sizes as well, but the names of those don’t really interest me. If you don’t have time for this minutiae, I understand. For breakfast, I used to have 2 or 3 slices of bread, and I would push a slice of Camembert into each one. I thought it was delicious. I still love Camembert and should get it more often. Have a good week ahead. Mike
@@michaelcrummy8397 Hey Mike,
You must be psychic as I was just typing a reply to Steve (below) about bread. In any case :
Baguette Type French Breads
Une baguette - typical French bread loaf
Un pain - bigger than the baguette
Une ficelle - like a baguette but smaller and/or thinner. It’s also called “une flûte”
Un bâtard - bigger than the baguette, but smaller than le pain (yes, the name means “bastard”… because it’s a mix between une baguette and un pain!). It’s also sometimes called “une flûte”… so it’s confusing…
I THINK you’re talking about “un bâtard” if it was about as long as a baguette, but fatter - but the same taste and consistency as a baguette
Marie - if you’re reading this please correct me as you’re a “much more reliable source” than me ! 😂 / Bill
Thanks Bill. I appreciate it.
I like the hat. :)
French Fries in tacos? Reminds me of potato chip sandwiches, or sugar sandwiches. And, yes, the latter is just sugar sprinkled on bread!
I think folks don't appreciate the general climate of France compared to much of the United States. For example, the Ohio valley (where I live) is classified as having a sub-tropical environment. All I know is that it can get very hot & humid during the summer.
Baguette, croissants, pâté de fois gras, Camembert, and escargots FTW 👍🏼 Vive la France! 🇫🇷
Hello Maries' mum 🌹. You have a beautiful garden (what I can see of it) 👍. Has Marie done any more baking? Take care, Marie, stay safe 🌹.
Hi Marie, the yard you were in look's very nice and, please tell your mother that she is very beautiful. Love you, Marie. Bye.
Long ago and far away we had floral print TP and in different shades, similar to paper towels. Now white seems to be it . Probably due to manufacturers more than consumers. American fresh baked bread from a local bakery has a crust. American bread is too sweet. Crepes and pancakes two separate things. Crepes are available at IHOP as well as pancakes. The garden (backyard?) is very pretty. Once upon a time in America there were blue laws and most businesses closed on Sundays. I am anxious for Marie's visit to the Normandy coast.
I think one of the reasons a lot of European cars are small is because gas prices are insane
Also why a lot of them are diesel.
Quand tu (Marie) as demandé à ta mère si “air conditioning” se trouve souvent en France, peut-être elle a répondu au midi de la France, ou il fait plus chaud qu’au nord du pays. Ça fait du bon sens. Après la réponse de la mère de Marie, Marie a dit “ in the towns”. Peut-être elle voulait dire, “in the south”. Je ne veux pas parler pour Marie. It would make perfect sense that air conditioning would be more common in the south of France where it’s warmer.
In the south yes!
Have you heard of the Ford Vedette? They were made predominantly in the 1950s. Are there classic car clubs near you? Are there still Jazz and Blues concerts near Tours?
What came first, the chicken or the egg? J’aimais du pain croustillant avec du Camembert là dedans quand j’étais en France. Quand je regardais les véhicules à Tours en ta vidéo, je ne crois pas que la différence entre la taille des voitures aux Etats-Unis, en comparaison à la France, est si différente qu’autrefois. Il y avait sûrement une différence plus évidente en la décennie des 1970s, par example. J’ai une voiture très petite que j’aime pour l’aise du parking et pour l’économie de l’essence. Vidéo amusante Marie. Salut à ta mère. Je pense qu’elle a un peu l’envie de devenir une étoile de l’écran à Paris ou Hollywood. Veuilles, s’il te plaît, demander à ton père s’il connaît la musique de Bruce Springsteen. “Baby we were born to run”! Il est né et il vive toujours en New Jersey, mon état de naissance et de résidence. Voyage sain et sauf à Tours.
Ok so people in different cultures say and write things differently, they’re not « wrong ». Famous Vladimir’s name is in Cyrillic alphabet, so it’s transcribed differently in English and French to get the right pronunciation.
French spellings are weird, but imagine what people learning English think of : laugh vs though, choir, colonel, finite vs infinite etc.
The French like their bread ‘croustillant’. It _can_ break your teeth, Marie, if the baguette is allowed to linger for too many days. My father-in-law had an expression for it: ‘pain à chien’
English is weird, and so is French. All natural languages are weird, because they were all created by people with no one in charge. The quirks and inconsistencies of languages can be fun if you look at them the right way.
I like crusty bread. I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area, and a lot of the sourdough bread we have here is crusty. There are other good types of bread that aren't crusty. Jewish challah doesn't have a thick crust because it has eggs in it.
Merci, Marie. J'ai presque tombe sur le tapis quand j'ai entendu la partie avec le "bone apple tea". Et je suis anglais! (Quelquefois, j'ai honte d'etre du meme pays que ces gens). Et bonjour a Maman aussi. Une res jolie et gentille jeune dame, comme sa fille 😄
American cars are made for big people driving in wide open spaces.
Other than Northeastern states (where cities were built long before the horseless carriage existed), US cities are planned with wide, straight roads, and there can be hundreds of miles between major cities. Plenty of room to stretch out.
And Americans tend to be bigger because food is so ridiculously abundant here. Bigger people need bigger interiors to sit in when driving cars. So American cars are built for someone that averages 1.8 m and 84 kg. I believe European and Asian brands build cars for someone averaging 1.75 m and 70 kg.
An English translations for bon appetit is good appetite.
Twenty years ago I knew a guy who lived in Le Mans and studied at a university in Paris because Paris was so expensive to live. There were neighborhoods in the north and south suburbs that would have been comparable in price, but they weren't very nice neighborhoods comparatively, and the train into Paris from Le Mans wasn't much longer, if at all, than public transit from some of the cheaper neighborhoods.
As for the pink toilet paper, I liked it because it wasn't the brown toilet paper. The roughest toilet paper was always brown, and the softest never was!
My apartment in Limoges was always so hot all summer long, but my friends apartment was always nice and cool. My building was cinder block, and his was old thick stone. The apartment was also second floor and north facing. I was jealous. He also kept the shutters closed all day, and I was too dumb to do the same.
BTW your mom has a nice yard! I'm guessing she lives in a smaller town? It looks really big!
She’s living in the countryside 😀
There's no obese people in France because they only go to fast food restaurants once or twice a year. Also at one time the French did pronounce consonants at the end of words when old French was more like Latin.
Re: Air Conditioning and small cars: Energy costs are much higher in France than in the US. If you filled your SUV here in France it would easily cost you $300 or more. Electricity is mostly nuclear, so running an air conditioner would also cost about $300 a month. Re: Why do French people eat snails (and also frog legs): If you cover things in garlic butter, you can fool yourself into thinking they are chicken. Americans should know that these practices go back to the 1790's, when the US government reneged on its loans from France from the US revolution. The French King loaned the US enough money to feed France for three years--so they answer is that the French had to eat some strange things to help the US win the American Revolution. Re: Bread: We have a van come by every day that brings us delicious fresh bread in the morning, so it isn't hard. Much better than sliced stuff that comes out of a plastic bag...
Hello Marie ,,, merry Christmas ⛄ sweetheart
Mom, I hope you can visit the US and Canada with Marie and Remy.
Tu est tres joili avec ton chapeau de paille!
French words have so many letters, producing so few sounds. Very inefficient. :) But English pronunciation is not easy to learn. For example, you simply have to memorize how to pronounce words that end in "ough", such as tough, trough, though and through. Four words, four different ways to pronounce "ough".
When I was a kid (1970s), most stores here in the USA were closed on Sundays. And on weekdays, stores would usually close by around 6pm except on one day when many would stay open as late as 9pm (Thursday, I believe). Very different now.
ahahaha je suis une americaine et j'adore ta video! C'est tres interessant:) au fait, en amerique, on ne mange pas les alligators, je connais seulement une personne qui l'a fait et c'etait comme defi. peut-etre c'est juste car j'habite au Nord mais quand meme;) bisousss
Do your cars have automatic transmissions? I have heard that it is common that European vehicles don't. That might make them thinner. Early US cars were thinner because the structures didn't need other parts. I have a garage on my property from the 1920's that I cannot fit a car in.
Hey there miss marie, and miss marie's mom.. Can't wait till you come to America.. You'll be saying "why" do American's do that
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It's 9.00 US dollars for a up of coffee in Paris? WOW
Would love to see your reaction to a video called, Lennon Sisters - "Dominique"
Vous etes tres charmant!
Hi Mom
The French language when spoken in English is very nice sounding.
You mean English language spoken with a French accent!
Yes! Bad typing. Big fingers and a too small a phone.
In America, the phrase "French bread" means a stale (but unsliced) long skinny loaf of cheap white bread. There are people who like it (e.g., my dad does), but I don't understand why. White bread is a crime against humanity as far as I'm concerned. And yes, French bread for some reason is always really hard (unlike Italian bread, which is white but can be soft, though it goes stale very quickly.) So is the term "French bread" as we use it a misnomer, or does France not have whole-grain or multi-grain breads? I know for a fact that Germany has good bread, and France is _right_ next door, so you'd think...
A crepe is what you get if you're making pancakes but only put in half the flour, so the batter spreads out really thin in the pan.
Tacos have only started to spread to Europe within the last couple of decades (about three or four decades behind their arrival in the Midwest), so presumably better ones will arrive in due time.
All of Europe has those tiny cars. It's because their cities were built before the invention of the horse-drawn wagon or the sidewalk or the front yard; and so the streets are really narrow (about half the width of a single lane of traffic in America), and there's no room to expand them, because the buildings are literally right up against the streets. So they all have to drive those dinky little cars that could park diagonally between the seats of an SUV, if someone installed a ramp so they could get up there.
America experimented with subcompact cars during and after the Energy Crisis, but then in the early nineties the car reviewers over here all started to focus on safety ratings, and everyone (especially everyone with children) started switching from subcompact cars to minivans, and then to larger and larger SUVs. This was possible because our roads, including city streets, have always been large enough to accommodate anything up to a semi truck, and if a street starts feeling too narrow the city can always recover an entire lane by limiting on-street parking to one side (because, yes, our streets were originally built with room to park horse-drawn wagons along the edges, because by the time we started building cities in the late seventeenth century, horse-drawn wagons were common), and on top of that American municipalities have pretty much always reserved the right to expand the streets into the "devil strip" / "berm" / "verge" / "sidewalk buffer" / whatever you call the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street (because yes, of course we always had separate walking paths along the sides of roads, because nobody wants to walk in the same lane as the horse-drawn wagons). And if all of that STILL isn't enough, they make the street one-way (because, again, yes, of course all of our cities were built with streets intended to accommodate at least two moving lanes of traffic, so that horse-drawn wagons moving in opposite directions could pass each other, without squeezing, and could do so _between_ the stationary wagons drawn up along the edges; Canada is the same way, because if there's one thing North America has always had more of than Europe, it's space; and, as noted, horse-drawn wagons were already commonplace when our first cities were built, unless you count the pueblos as cities).
I've heard it said that if you run into a Paris shopkeeper who insists on speaking French, all you have to do is speak a few sentences of really badly mangled French; the pain of hearing the language spoken so badly will convince the shopkeeper to relent and speak English. Alternatively, rattle off a quick paragraph of any language he doesn't know, so he thinks that speaking English is a compromise / meeting you halfway.
Hi French Fry. The hat's adorable. I think you should punch the boyfriend for making noise. He's always causing trouble, isn't he!!!
Is that a Staghorn Fern in the pink pot on the tree behind you?
I'm an American and I love a firm crust on bread. However, a lot of Americans only eat really soft (and tasteless) bread, and the question for them is why, why, WHY???
Oh, the humanity!
G'Day Mum from the Aussies.
You look exactly like your mother except your mother lightens her hair and she's older. As far as those snails there's a lot of people in the US that eat snails my Mother is one of them and I have a couple of friends also but for me I would never eat snail. And the bread I can't believe somebody's talking about breaking their tooth on a piece of bread.... really! That bread you just showed in your video is crunchy on the outside nice on the inside and soft and bouncy when you squish it I would like that type of bread and I would put butter on it and I would eat it either with a salad or a bowl of soup. I have never been served bead that was so hard that it would break my tooth. I know here in America if you leave bread out for a few days it will get hard as a rock almost, but it still wouldn't break your tooth. Some people are weird. I'm glad you did this video just to show the weird questions that you get and it's unbelievable what stupid questions that they ask you.
Sorry, but I do not know of any Americans that eat snails other than your mom that you mentioned. I'm not saying that snails are something you should not eat, but rather snails are just something the vast, vast majority of people in the U. S. do not eat. Even in France, people usually eat snails only on festive moments such as Christmas and New Year's Day due to the fact they are expensive.
My mother had pink toilet paper in her bathroom in Missouri until they stopped selling it here...
What is your favorite special day meal?
Mother is beautiful also...
Marie, This week in California, we are going to be hot. 40-43 Celcius. Or 100-110 Farenheit. Have you been anywhere that hot?
It's getting hot like this in France too!
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