This is hilarious !
(You didn’t mention any greasy, salty snacks served with the pre-dinner aperitif as is customary)

omg! you’re right marivin. the chips, nuts, instant guacamole and a drink.

the Japanese don’t have very much veggies either at their BBQ’s, and their BBQ’s aren’t done on a grill but on a hot plate (which isn’t BBQ if you ask me)…must be an American thing to have veggies??

This was very funny, indeed. I have not been at a French barbecue for at least the past two years, but there was one at my cousin’s – I think it was three or four summers ago. He served huge slabs of beef, like I had never seen, even in the U.S. But there were vegetables too, although I can’t remember what they were. But those sausages, yikes!

Yikes! Sounds just like an italian barbecue. All meat, a smattering of grilled vegs, and bottles and bottles of wine. NO BEER!! (Or atleast at the one we’re always invited to every July). When we finally get set up so that we can host a bbq for our neighbors, I’m turning them on to all things american and then some. I’ll even make some hawaiian raw fish salad and see how that goes over.

Regarding all of your previous posts (and Lulu has a great smile!), I’ve made a mental note on those chausson aux pommes and will be searching the grocery aisles for them chicken-flavored chips. We’re all set to go, I was able to book online through likhom.com Hope it won’t disappoint! I can’t wait to stuff my bags with cheese and mirabelles!!!!!!

Hé ! That’s not true ! At least at home, we always have all types of salads with a BBQ (ok, some potatoe salad and taboulé but also carrots and regular green salad). Quite often, I think, you will get ‘aluminium wrapped and baked in the fire’ potatoes…
And yes, marinated meats are just starting to reach us, mostly chicken…
But the things we don’t do on BBQ are burgers, as surprising as it may seem for Northern american

and let us not forget that they don’t eat potato salad here!!!

I think you don’t go to familly dinner for such event like wedding. We begin them with a cocktail around 4 pm of course thera are some food like “cakes salés (au thon, au jamnon et olives)” and some salty food. After we go to the tables around 8 pm and we eat, drink, dance till 1 to 4 am. We eat 1 or 2 dishes “entrée”, one main course, the sorbet with alcool, another main course, cheese with salad and one or 2 deserts. At the end we eat onion soup with melted cheese. Some foreigners ares astonished. I precise that the parts are not little. so if you will be invited you’ll have to eat less than usually at noon.

This is so true! What is it with the summer meat fest? How ironic that the French, with their reputation for balanced eating and proper meals, let it all hang out come bbq season whereas we Americans (home of McDo, liter-sized coke cups, and 24/7 eating) should balance our bbqs with some veggies.

I always lobby for some grilling space for my zucchini, eggplant, and what not!