(title of an old Rowan Atkinson song)<\/p>\n
Some of the things the French do are just perverse. Cruet sets where the one with one hole is for pepper, and the multiple holes is for salt. Why? I see the comic potential but I oppose it on culinary grounds. Also, the hot tap that is labeled with a \u201cC\u201d (chaud). Now you are just taunting anglophones. Sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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