Of yummy birds

Guess what I had for lunch today.

wood pigeon (pigeon ramier in French, or palombe in the south of France)

Yep, that's what I ate. Not that I knew what it was...I just knew it was a kind of meat. It was good, though ;)

And while we're on the subject of food, or more precisely, poultry...let's talk about KFC in France.

KFC really isn't that famous here in France. Somehow most people here prefer McDonalds, or a similar chain called Quick.

The main reason behind this might be because the French like to eat healthy. Most of the time, anyway...let's not consider the foie gras which is a food for festive occasions! It is so hard to find fried chicken here...I believe that deep-frying is almost never done! (is the "almost" even necessary?) They do a lot of grilling instead...

So, to come back to KFC...of course it has to have its trademark fried chicken, even though it might not get a lot of support from the French (it does from the foreigners though...each time I went to KFC here it was filled with foreigners) So now it has come up with a new item...the brazer wrap. I saw the publicity boards...it's a bit like the twister they had in Malaysia (do they still have it?), except that the chicken is grilled instead of the original fried kind. And what's more, on the advertisement it was written "oven-cooked"...if it were in Malaysia they'd have to come up with a better description to attract customers to buy this wrap! After all...when we go to KFC we want the original recipe! Be it simply fried chicken, in a burger or with their "chicken rice"...I can't imagine going to KFC and NOT eating at least a bit of their fried chicken.

***change of subject***

I wanted to blog about this yesterday, but didn't have the time. It's about something I saw on my way home.

Really, we can see the weirdest people sometimes, taking the public transport.

We were waiting for the metro at Saxe-Gambetta, and there was a lady with a dog in front of us. (the dog was on a leash) It wasn't a very big dog, and since there were many people waiting for the metro, I wondered how she was going to go into the metro with it...I mean, the dog would probably get trampled on, or give someone a good bite when they stepped on it!

And then when the metro arrived, she picked up the dog like you would a child. O_O

It so happened that behind this lady (between me and her) there were two girls, and the dog was kinda sniffing at one of their shoes. (before it was picked up by its owner, of course) They were looking at it while talking among themselves. And just as the lady picked up the dog, one of them burst out laughing. I can't help but wonder whether she was thinking the same thing I was... :P

Okay, that's all for now, I have a nice 3-day weekend ahead and I plan to finish reading The Black Dahlia (at least; I have another book waiting) I've read about a quarter or a third of it and it's been pretty disappointing up till now. Hopefully it'll get better...