Quelle est ta nourriture préférée ? 🥐🥭
What is your favorite food?
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Dialogue du Jour
Julien : Zoé, quelle est ta nourriture préférée ?
Zoé : Est-ce que les pâtisseries ou les bonbons peuvent compter comme une réponse ?
Julien : Bien sûr, pourquoi pas ✪? Alors, quel est ton choix ?
Zoé : Par où dois-je commencer ? Les baguettes, les croissants, les macarons. Je suis une vraie gourmande ✪! Mais une tarte aux pommes à la crème fraîche, c’est mon péché mignon ✪. Et toi Julien, tu aimes quoi bouffer ✪?
Julien : Je suis un grand fan de fruits. J'adore les figues, les myrtilles, les mangues ✪. Aussi des plats traditionnels, le coq au vin, le croque-monsieur…. oh mais j'adore la baguette, on ne peut pas être plus français que ça !
Zoé : Il faut cependant les acheter fraîches chez un boulanger local, bien évidemment. Mais je dois t'avouer quelque chose...
Julien : Quoi donc ? Ne me dis pas que tu es allergique aux baguettes ?
Zoé : Non, rien de si dramatique, mais je suis allergique aux oignons. Alors, chaque fois que je commande du coq au vin, je dois toujours préciser "Sans oignons”. Et je dis toujours après, “C’est pas tes oignons .. c’est les miens”✪.
Julien : Oh, mon Dieu ! Le pauvre serveur, mais c'est une si mauvaise blague, hahaha. Dites-moi que vous ne dites pas vraiment cela…
Translation
J: Z, what's your favourite food?
Z: Can pastries or sweets count as an answer?
J: Sure, why not? So, what's your choice?
Z: Where do I start? Baguettes, croissants, macaroons. I'm a real foodie! But an apple tart with crème fraîche is my guilty pleasure. What's your favourite food, J?
J: I'm a big fan of fruit. I love figs, blueberries and mangoes. I also love traditional dishes, coq au vin, croque-monsieur.... oh but I love baguette, you can't get more French than that!
Z: You have to buy them fresh from a local baker, of course. But there's something I have to tell you...
J: What's that? Don't tell me you're allergic to baguettes?
Z: No, nothing so dramatic, but I'm allergic to onions. So whenever I order coq au vin, I always have to say "No onions". "It's not your onions, it's mine.
J: Oh, my God! The poor waiter, but it's such a bad joke, hahaha. Tell me you're not really saying that...
✪ Notes
pourquoi pas ?✨ = essayons ! = why not? (ie. let’s do it!). I have French friends and once I started noticing I realised this is their response to pretty much anything you ask of them! Would you like a croissant / to go for a walk / to go out for dinner / a beer? “Pourquoi pas ?”. A universal answer. · · · ·
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