You know how this works, it's 3 tips per week so you don't look like this when you go to France :
Yes, we want to avoid that. So, onto business!
French Weirdness #1 : Rum.
Andy, being from a country in Latin America is used to drinking rum. And not ANY kind of rum, but the BEST kind of rum in the world : Ron Zacapa Centenario. And when Andy gets to France, she is surrounded by 3 kinds of rum : white rum, extra-sweet rum and already-piña-colada-mixed rum.
White rum in my opinion is disgusting. It tastes like alcohol with a little bit of sugar in it.
Extra-sweet rum usually comes from the Martinique and Guadeloupe, 2 French colonies. And it tastes like cough syrup, only worse.
And finally, the worst kind of rum in the world… The one that they call "Mixed Rum" but it's actually rum and piña colada mix, except in a disgusting version. It tastes like you're drinking your favorite tanning lotion.
French Weirdness #2 : Tequila
Continuing in the alcohol topic… Tequila. Oh, I love some tequila. Love, love, love. José Cuervo grew up to be one of my best friends. I even learned how to drink it no lime, no salt. Just taste the tequila. And then, bam! I have to move to France. And then, the hot bartender offered us tequilas. And I learned things are different in this side of the Ocean.
The taste of Tequila is gone. Now, all you taste is tequila-flavored vodka. The thing is just too strong and tasteless. It's disgusting. But what can you expect of a liquor made in Morocco, and not the region of Tequila, Mexico?
Oh, and don't even get me started on that beer, "Desperados". You want to know what it is? It's tequila-flavored beer. Yucky. And then, there's "Desperados Red", to which grenadine syrup is added. Yucky yucky.
And finally, a French Weirdness that touches too close to home…
French Weirdness #3 : Becoming a couple.
And it's even sometimes related to the alcohol topic (Not in my case, of course)! To those who knew how my relationship with the Boyfriend started, you may know that I didn't know I was in a relationship until the next day when I asked my best friend. Why? Because he never asked me to be his girlfriend. Of course, after 3 hours of kissing under the cold, I did know we'd hit it off.
But sometimes, you may meet someone at a club, and drink craptastic tequila and rum, and get a bit tipsy, and kiss that someone, and suddenly, YOU'RE A COUPLE. And you will say to yourself "But, but I just KISSED HIM/HER", but actually no, you just got into a relationship. "Congratulations." And good luck!
And it's even sometimes related to the alcohol topic (Not in my case, of course)! To those who knew how my relationship with the Boyfriend started, you may know that I didn't know I was in a relationship until the next day when I asked my best friend. Why? Because he never asked me to be his girlfriend. Of course, after 3 hours of kissing under the cold, I did know we'd hit it off.
God that third one would not go down well in this country. What about those nights where you make out with more than one person?! That would get MESSY.
ReplyDeleteAnd I totally agree about the tequila; I drink it because I think the salt and lime thing is fun, but I have to work hard to suppress my gag reflex, otherwise it hits a wall on the way down to my stomach and comes straight back out!
I kinda wish it was that easy and straightforward to become a couple in Scotland. Perhaps I should come to France and bag myself a french boyfriend in one evening! :)
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