In the country of Rabelais, we love good food.
We also like to talk about it, if possible with full cheeks.
The French are so fond of cooking that their language is populated with metaphors and culinary expressions.
You just have to listen.
When you are tired, you
"are not on your plate"
.
A fine chef is a
“cordon-bleu”
, and when morale is at its lowest,
“we don't have the fries”
.
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The French language is greedy.
This is what Yves Camdeborde and Marcelle Ratafia highlight in
150 funny expressions of the kitchen
(the Robert).
They go back to the origins of these phrases that we use daily, sometimes without knowing their history.
Did you know that the expression
"rolling in flour"
has nothing to do with baked flour?
It was built from the verb
"to flourish"
, which means
"to indoctrinate"
or
"to deceive"
.
"Make the andouille"
,
"pedal in the sauerkraut"
,
"make a whole cheese"
... Will you do a 10/10 in this test on the culinary origin of our expressions?
