Food Popplet

Write two paragraphs in English and post it to your blog with your a) impressions on French food and b) comparing French and American shopping habits.  Make sure you have a topic sentence for each paragraph and use details from the readings to support your topic sentences. In addition to your paragraph, embed your Popplet (click on Share, then copy the embed code).

Overall, my impressions on French food are pretty good. A lot of the things they eat are similar to what we eat. They have coffee in the morning like us (other than the fact that they drink it out of a bowl instead of a cup), they eat at McDonald's and order Domino's pizza, and they are starting to eat more American cereal. And a lot of restaurants in America require 15% tips, too. 

French shopping habits are almost the same as in America too. They have fresh fruits and veggies and there are some open air markets here too. When they go to the grocery store, they either bring their own bags to carry their food in or they can rent a cart for a small fee. In America, most stores offer carts for free and put your food in plastic bags to take home. Both France and America have specialty shops like patisseries and bakeries. Grocery stores sell soda and other packaged food. Unlike America, French people buy fresh bread every day.

French Script for skit

Script for French Project

Serveur: Qu’est-ce que vous voulez?

Visiteur 1: *gives server a look, talks in annoyed tone* je veux les steak-frites pour les entrés et au vin blanc s’il vous plait.

Serveur: Et pour tu?

Visiteur 2: Je veux les petit pan et le soda, s’il vous plait.

Serveur: tout ce que *walks away while rolling eyes*

*5 minutes later*

Serveur: *sets appetizers and drinks down promptly* Qu’est-ce que vous voulez pour le plat principal?

Visiteur 1: Je veux un croque-monsieur *doesn’t even look up while speaking*

Serveur: Que va vous faites grossir.

Visiteur 1: *looks at Visiteur 2 not wanting to be there anymore and really mad*  

Serveur:  Et pour tu?

Visiteur 2: Je veux le boeuf bourguignon

Serveur: *doesn’t say anything and just walks away*

*10-15 minutes later waiter comes back as Tourist 1 and Tourist 2 are discussing to leave the restaurant*

Serveur: ici vous allez *sets down plates promptly with food flying off of them*

Visiteur 1 and Visiteur 2: *says nothing to the server and eats their food angrily*

*finishing their meals*

Serveur:  Qu’est-ce que vous voulez pour les desserts?

Visiteur 1 and Visiteur 2:  *annoyed*  Ne rien.

*Tourists get up and walk away leaving the server standing there with no tip and nothing to put in the cash register.*

Morale of the story: Don’t work in customer service if you are not a people person.

French Foods Chart

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GItnwIgrrYmJZetG9ajMInLDFcHrDNI_HDP3hhPSC1o/edit