Not sure if we've been over France's love of all things chocolaty, creamy, fluffy, and sweet. I know I know. French people are supposedly thin because they eat small portions of really delicious food (and that thing about big lunches and not snacking). I've heard it too. I have never ever seen this in action. My students are always eating Prince cookies. The other teachers have rich cake in the teachers lounge almost every day. I see high school students walking around eating madelines and croissants. My roommate eats nutella crepes almost every day twice a day. Portions at restaurants are pretty massive and I have a hard time finishing them*. It's scoffed upon if you don't order dessert. I've made my point. Anyways I'm at an American style cafe called "Columbus Cafe" and you would not believe the amount of whipped cream and cookies I've seen consumed in the past hour. The whipped cream towers at least three and a half inches above the top of the cup and everyone orders it. It's pretty wonderful that no one harbors guilt about ordering whatever the hell they want.
The cookie I'm eating is the size of my face. Meant to be shared? Maybe...
In other coffee related news...We hit up Starbucks in Paris** and had an encounter with infamous Parisian customer service values. We go in, order our drinks, pay...normal order of things right? What comes next? Oh they make your drink? No! Really?! Cause the barista thought that the way things went were...I order, I pay, she doesn't make drink, I wait, we notify her of her mistake, she gets super angry and says we were supposed to wait next to the bar or else she doesn't know we need our drinks. Although I think the whole ordering and paying thing should have been an indication that drinks were needed. Anyways in the US we'd have come out of this with a $20 gift card. Here we got our money back, no coffees, no apologies, and left.
Finished the cookie. BAM.
* Who are we kidding- of course I finish them.
** Yadayada you're in France and go to Starbucks?! Sometimes I just need it ya know?
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