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How French Women Don’t Get Fat According to a Song

Cast your fate to the wind

 

 

While having dinner with our friends from the States I asked French Husband to put some music on

so he connected his favorite channel and Charlie Brown's theme song came on.

Giggling I said, "Oh that is a Snoopy's song!"

French Husband gave me a puzzling look as he read the name of the song on his cell phone, "No it says:

"Cast Your Fate to the Wind"

But instead of saying "fate" he pronounced it "Fat".

"Cast your Fat to the Wind".

 

Cast your fate to the wind

And just like that, I knew I had the answer to the question many seem to ask:

"Why French Women Don't Get Fat?"

Take it from Charlie Brown's theme song pronounced by a Frenchman, "They cast their fat to the wind."

And here I always thought it had to do with cigarettes, black coffee and steak tartare.

Teasing aside, especially to French Husband's pronunciation of Fate to Fat, 

Weight doesn't matter as much as happiness and casting your fate to the wind doesn't work.

 

Side note: Thanks for the correction Katie.

 

Comments

7 responses to “How French Women Don’t Get Fat According to a Song”

  1. Kathie B

    Um, it’s not Chase, it’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” a surprise 1963 monster hit by San Francisco’s own (late) Vince Guaraldi. I had the honor of having lunch with him and his Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete when I was in college.
    Guaraldi later went on to even greater fame composing “Peanuts” animation music, until his premature death (between sets while playing a gig, which was the thing he loved most in life).
    Farmboy Husband and I also saw Guaraldi (a pianist) and his trio perform on the jazz Sunday each summer at Sigmund Stern Grove in SF.

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  2. Chrisophe

    Thanks for your post. I’m a retired jazz musician, and when I read in Corey’s post “Peanuts” and then “Chase Your Fate to the Wind,” I immediately knew it was a reference to Guaraldi’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” which, even though considered a “jazz” recording, was on the pop charts, an unusual occurrence in the 1960s.
    You (and others) might enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUcoNRtsMI

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  3. French la Vie

    Thanks for the info regarding the composer, and yes exactly, my error it is cast, but my sleepy brain last night wrote chase.

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  4. French la Vie

    Thank you, for the link, and yes it is cast. xx

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  5. Alan

    Cast Your Fate to the Wind. It immediately transports me back to 1962 and me delivering newspapers in Illinois. I used to bring my little transistor radio with me on my paper route. Back then you might hear anything on a top 40 radio station.

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  6. Marilyn

    I will never think of that song in the same way. I will cast my fat to the wind for sure.

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  7. Kathie B

    Merci, Chrisophe! I recall when Ralph Gleason was the jazz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle!

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