Stories Collected While Living in France
In France they do not do milk and cookies.
So sad.
In France Lu cookies are the equivalent to Oreos. Not that they taste the same, nor look the same. No, not at all. But, like Americans (kids included) who indulge on the white center of the Oreo cookie before eating the chocolate crust, the French have a similar tradition, they snap off the corners of the LU first.
I thought you would like to know that.
I ate a corner.
Hopefully you are the whole cookie after eating the corner. The French might be rendered speechless if they knew about the way your brother eats the head off the turkey cookies at Thanksgiving.
I take it the back side is chocolate? Interesting tradition. 😉
That’s just how we eat them in England too, corners first! Or at least it is how my family do and did long before we came to France. Perhaps there is a Euroepean way to eat biscuits!!! Have a great weekend x
we have the same
LECKER!
http://sites.arte.tv/karambolage/de/der-gegenstand-luleibniz-karambolage
Greetings from Germany
Anne
In 20 years in France and Belgium, I’ve never seen this!
However, our kid was a big milk drinker for years. No sodas (even today). Relatives and restaurants found it unheard-of to serve milk with dinner.
Our decadent chocolate packaged biscuits are Toffee Pops, TimTams and Mellow Puffs to name a few. Although I haven’t indulged in a very long time I’m embarrassed to say that when no-ones looking I eat them as if I were still a child. Certainly not the done thing in France.
…and the corners of the Petit Lus, we don’t call them corners but… “oreilles”…(ears) !
Géraldine, a great fan of Petits Lus (or “petits beurres”), and of Corey Amaro !
Yes. 🙂 Tallulah is sitting beside me as we read this post, and she tells me that she always eats the corners of Lu cookies first, and then works her way around the decorative edging.
But of course — how else would you eat them?
Everytime I eat a croissant by biting off those fabulous crusty end/ears first, I think of how inappropriate I shall be when in France. (although I’ll try, I’ll TRY I PROMISE, to do it in whatever it is that you described at some point is the proper way to do it.)
Crap. And now I”ll mess up with cookies TOO.
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