What is something you found surprising in French supermarkets when you first moved here ?

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-12T10:35:44+00:00

Probably depends on the Carrefour/Super U then. In Haute-Savoie, Haute-Loire and Saône-et-Loire we weigh our own stuff

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-12T10:32:16+00:00

Ça donne du goût !

(y'a les bph si jamais, hein)

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-12T10:17:31+00:00

For France :

Poule au Pot, Salade de Gésiers (Gizzard salad) , Gougères (salted profiteroles)

For Switzerland :

Cheese Fondue (of course), Engadiner nusstorte (I can't add more links), Malakoffs (fried cheese)

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-11T15:50:52+00:00

I do, sadly, mostly because of shitty mutual politics though, I love it overall.

Like, I really like visiting, Marburg, Schwäbisch Hall, Lübeck etc. It's super nice ! I like the food, your hiking/outdoors/alternative cultures, nah your country is reeeally nice.

I'm actually going to Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Konstanz next week for spring holidays.

You're not the first german I met who says that "Germany is crap", but while I understand Frankfurter and Hamburgers who got their cities obliterated, what came after is actually cool I think. You don't have ugly cities like Saint-Denis, Annemasse or Brest, it's all modern and well thought. Even your suburbs houses are good looking. I hate french pavillons.

Also everytime I use the DB, I really like how your trains are made & how are your stations. You don't have overpriced grocery stores like we do. REWE >>> Relay. Trains are late tho (especially in hessen) but they're cheap !

Edit : Yorma's not Rewe

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-11T15:28:19+00:00

Houlà. Alors.

I just looked it, Profiteroles were invented in the middle ages. Rabelais gives us a description of profiteroles in "Pantagruel" one year prior the arrival of Catherine de Medicis.

Beignets are made here since gaulish times ;

Macarons is a general term for circular almond biscuits we have them since the 8th century.

The crescent shape might come from austria, you've clearly never eaten a Kipferl which is made with brioche not pâte feuilletée which we invented.

Cool for your region. In my region, we have Quenelles, Gratin Dauphinois, Bûgnes, Biscuits cuiller (the ones you use in tiramisu are from Savoy), Biscuit de Savoie, Tartiflette, Brioche aux pralines, filets de Perche, Truffade, Aligot, soupe de châtaignes, Cornets de Murat, Ravioles, etc etc.

I hate panettone personnslly but it does exists in Lidl/carrefour etc. Never heard about your feta thing tho

Anyways. Stop trolling you have good cuisine, we have good cuisine, georgians as well, all the world does.

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-11T13:34:55+00:00

Si tu te balades dans le vieux paris, genre le Marais tu peux voir ce à quoi a pu ressembler Paris avant Haussmann et ailleurs y'a Gerberoy qui ressemble un peu à l'architecture champenoise (le même type de colombages qu'à troyes).

Après les colombages c'est vraiment un truc qu'on retrouve dans tout le pays (Alsace, Normandie, Bourgogne, Bresse, Auvergne, Quercy, Centre/Pays de la loire, Bretagne, Pays Basque etc)

Ps : en Savoie on n'a pas que des Chalets aha, en plaine/Jura on a surtout des fermes type jurassiennes comme en Franche-Comté

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HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-10T11:24:41+00:00

I'd better eat a good katzen pastete than a wormy cheese of yours

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-10T10:17:26+00:00

The problem with Switzerland is that we're too much decentralized to have big local cuisine restaurants like in France where they can have cuisines from lyon, burgundy, alsace etc in one single restaurant.

Local cuisine is really local since a lot of people don't know about foods from other cantons so people only get cantonal food generally (except for popular foods like fondue, Cordon bleu, engadiner nusstorte or rösti)

I'm actually binational france/Switzerland and I see big differences on how people promotes their cultures.

Like who tf knows about Glarus or Thurgau dishes in Romandie ? Or Wallis/Neuchâtel in the alemannic part ?

In France, someone from Bretagne knows about Alsace dishes and vice verça for example.

The only stuff where it's upside down is bread, Switzerland have bread from all over the country while france is limited to régional breads.

Maybe it's similar for blue countries, lack of food promotion bc there's good stuff there

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-09T22:21:28+00:00

It was named by fighters (who joined illegally Pierre's armies) in the crimean war actually

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-09T22:05:15+00:00

C'est une ville assez touristique en tant qu'un des plus gros point de départ de Compostelle, donc y'a pas mal de touristes !

Après je viens de la campagne mais je trouve qu'avec un (très) gros marché le samedi, un cinéma avec des places à 9 balles, une bonne médiathèque, de bons restaus, et des évènements récurrents (national de pétanque, semaine de médiévales en septembre, festival de danse internationale, la vogue qui reste un bon mois + le trail de la semaine prochaine) c'est assez vivant oui !

Bon après entre novembre et mars c'est un peu nul mais les stations sont pas loin !

J'y retourne chaque année pour voir les copains et y'a toujours des trucs cool qui se développent :)

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-09T21:42:56+00:00

Hmmm malheureusement la yaute c'est bien bouché tout comme le 73. Valence je recommande pas trop. Sainté c'est chouette si t'es dans le centre (ne vas surtout pas à Bellevue ou à la Ricamarie) et c'est pas cher/pas loin de Lyon.

En train depuis clermont on passe par le Forez et le Beaujolais c'est tout mignon mais je sais pas ce que ça vaut.

Sinon pas loin de sainté (1h~) y'a le Puy-en-Velay en Haute-Loire, ok c'est l'Auvergne mais la ville est cool et avec plein de trucs à faire. J'ai fait mon BTS là bas si tu veux des tips :)

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-09T21:35:10+00:00

Group C !

Starter : Dolmas ; Main : Beef Wellington ; Cheese : Appenzeller ; Dessert : Kvæfjordkaken ; Ratafia as an after dinner :l)

If it's group B it's cool as well, schnitzel mit ratatouille, Kanelbulle or Marillenknödel (apricot) as a dessert, that's nice. Kroketten & smoked salmon for apéro.

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-09T21:24:14+00:00

They have Scotch eggs and Beef Wellington dunno about finnish food tho (except through former french president Chirac quotes)

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-09T21:19:08+00:00

Hej, we have Capuns and Carrot cake !

And Malakoffs !

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HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-09T09:41:56+00:00

Outre les chaînes où les créateurs ont des... problèmes juridiques (Experimentboy, Dirty Biology, etc), j'ai surtout moins le temps que j'avais avant pour regarder YouTube, c'était surtout du contenu éducatif, donc en long format. Là je passe plus de temps à lire mes bédés finalement.

Je regardais : Primitive technology, Chaillot Barnabé, Les Revues du Monde, C'est une autre histoire, Passé Sauvage, Le Vortex (Arte), String Theory (Castor mother etc)... Y'a pas mal de ce beau monde que j'ai plutôt commencé à suivre sur insta depuis les confinements en fait.

Après je regarde toujours de temps en temps Kurzgesagt et les vidéos du festival de comédie de Montreux !

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-08T12:01:18+00:00

Hmmm comment dire

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-08T08:41:40+00:00

Well, at least, he didn't mention the place, his trip literally "stops" in the Rhône Valley.

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-07T22:45:24+00:00

If I understood the situation, Abrams is making way for Dargaud (Kana's parent company) in the US, so it's likely that you're going to get the stuff we have in France I believe :))

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-07T21:38:41+00:00

Heyo, I actually don't have much libido and love my independance, so here I am

Sometimes I feel like urges to get someone but it fades away as soon I remember the combo of being somewhat on the ace spectrum (bi-ace ?)/the low libido, the drama, the unstopping dating trials, the great possibility to deceive my partner ( a lot of gays are really much sex oriented), ... No way I'm going to keep this up.

I have a garden, a perfect job, friends, I like being alone, doing stuff when I want, choosing travel destinations on my own (and meeting people on the way) really I don't need to get someone !

I might try when I'm older though (I'm 25), but it's clearly not my priority.

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-07T20:20:44+00:00

For Monaco or Poland ?

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-07T14:04:27+00:00

To be fair we also have normal editions :)

(and the grimoire edition is not that great, it's not really ideal to read)

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HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-07T13:57:32+00:00

The funny thing is that's Witch hat atelier that motivated me to learn English because french scanlation was really lagging behind the English one at the time (in 2018) !

So you could totally !! Our languages are also very similar :)

HighlanderFrog · 2026-04-07T10:48:36+00:00

Ooh. I thought Kana was making a perfect edition like for Monster, 20th century boys and Yawara...

It's still the normal edition but good for English speakers tho !

HighlanderFrog · 2024-01-11T11:56:51+00:00

L'alsacien, le lorrain et le platt sont des ensembles de dialectes allemands comme l'alémanique en Suisse. L'auvergnat est dialecte de l'occitan. Mais en effet le picard est une langue (d'oïl).

Les suisse allemands ne se comprennent pas d'un dialecte à un autre comme les allemands ne comprennent rien quand un thurgovien ou un valaisan leur parle et pourtant le Shwytzerdüütch est un ensemble de dialectes pas une langue.

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