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Having never been to a Relais Routier, any tips, suggestions?
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If you mean a Le Routier, then they serve a set lunch or evening meal. Lunch starts at 12 and finishes at 3. Evening meal starts at 7 and finishes at 10. Its normally a set menu with between 3 and 5 courses and includes wine at a set price of between 8 and 12 Euros. Coffee is extra. The best ones are on the arterial trunk routes in France and the best are only known to truckers. Some of the best I have ever been in are in the Bourgogne area. I have been known to spend a couple of days parked at a good one . The best ever is in a small village called Arney le Duc on the old N6. If you are not parked up there by 5-30PM you will not get served.
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Never ever try the Andouilette
It is allegedly a 'special' sausage
SPECIAL it certainly is
David
Having never been to a Relais Routier, any tips, suggestions?
Never ever try the Andouilette
It is allegedly a 'special' sausage
SPECIAL it certainly is
David
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I stopped many times at "Routiers" when I was a child travelling with my parents. Thye used to be the best place to have a huge home made meal and not expensive. With the increase of motorways , a lot have disappeared... shame indeed! But some are still there. Nowadays , mainly truckers stop at a routier for their lunch or evening meal. I have no idea how it goes on now......
Ok David ... don't take it just for you, but your post is just the opportunity to say something about foreign cooking. Each person from each country has habits and tastes are made up from birth by the mum's way of cooking.
There's something very
unfair about telling other people "Don't taste this".
I've always said to my children " Don't say it's bad/uneatable/disgusting. Just say "YOU don't like it".
I said the same to my best friend! We went to Scotland and because her daughter told her not to eat Haggis (disgusting, made with blahblahblah... while she never tried!!!!) and so my best friend would not listen to me and TRY!!!!
Please , don't say
Andouillettes are no good , just say you have tried and didn't like them, that's all! Again , it's not just you .... but for once, I had to answer to this! I love food , and from all countries, but when I don't know .... I TRY! I don't care about other people's feeling, I am a big girl, big enough to made my mind up!
Amicalement
Frankie
PPS: Oh and ...BTW .... I don't like Andouillette but I love Haggis
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Hi.
Just to put me in the picture,(And a few more i bet). Does it taste like....Chicken ?. Come on now, brief description,first the ingredients ,second a rough guide as to what it...MAY ?,taste like.
It would be rude of me to order this dish,and not eat it,however,i am NEVER going to be a contestant on,Get me out of here,but would feel obliged to sit there and eat it so as not to offend.
Tea Bag
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Ok David ... don't take it just for you, but your post is just the opportunity to say something about foreign cooking. Each person from each country has habits and tastes are made up from birth by the mum's way of cooking.
There's something very unfair about telling other people "Don't taste this".
I've always said to my children " Don't say it's bad/uneatable/disgusting. Just say "YOU don't like it".
I said the same to my best friend! We went to Scotland and because her daughter told her not to eat Haggis (disgusting, made with blahblahblah... while she never tried!!!!) and so my best friend would not listen to me and TRY!!!!
Please , don't say Andouillettes are no good , just say you have tried and didn't like them, that's all! Again , it's not just you .... but for once, I had to answer to this! I love food , and from all countries, but when I don't know .... I TRY! I don't care about other people's feeling, I am a big girl, big enough to made my mind up!
Amicalement
Frankie
PPS: Oh and ...BTW .... I don't like Andouillette but I love Haggis
It certainly didn't taste anything like chicken to me the smell alone put me off, however, I like you would have been, felt obliged to eat it.....the art was in keeping a straight face lol!
Anna
PS I'm sticking with eating Haggis! Best I've tasted was home made by a local French restaurant owner, on Burns night, after being let down by an English customer who had promised to bring some back for him and they didn't even have the courtesy to tell him until he spotted them passing a couple of days before the Burns Supper!:Sad:
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Having never been to a Relais Routier, any tips, suggestions?
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Is that the sausage made with DONKEY meat? BUSBYHa ha Frankie, point taken! It was just a bit of light hearted banter!
You are, of course, correct about telling people they should try for themselves and I always told our children to do that......but, after tasting Andouillette, I think I would hesitate to have told them to try it mdr! And, yes, many people don't know how good our Scottish Haggis tastes ha ha!
A wee story of when we first came to live in France....some lovely French people cooked us a super French meal and, yes, we were served Andouilette! My husband and I were at opposite ends of the table and I could see he was secretly feeding his Andouilette to our dog, who was under the table, next to him!
I never feed the dog at the table so he knew never to beg from me but, of course, my husband can't resist and so the dog always sat next to him at meal times. Oh how I wished I had the dog under my end of the table that day ha ha!
We didn't feel able to say we didn't like the Andouilette because our French hosts had told us they had gone to a lot of effort to buy from a speciality butcher, whose shop was a long way from them and also told us that it was a great delicacy! oh:
Bisous
Anna
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Have to admit I've never tasted em either bad or good as I have always known what they are composed of and whilst I will eat and thoroughly enjoy all sorts of red meaty type offal, it reminds me of my mother boiling up 'lights' for the dog - or was it the cat? Awful pong.
Is that the sausage made with DONKEY meat? BUSBY
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