Parlez-vous Sucre? Part 1

January 27, 2012 ↓ Comments (4)

After making it through the holidays sugar free, I fell off the wagon just two weeks into 2012. Truthfully, it was more like I jumped off!

Weight Watchers ad in the Paris metro.

Two long flights and a bus ride brought me to the Montparnasse metro train station in Paris, France. Hanging high above the crowds of commuters was a series of billboards depicting a sparkly lipped woman holding food in her mouth. It was a campaign for Weight Watchers. (You can see the television commercial version here.)

Gwenn swears that chocolate in France is sooooo much better than in America. Many Americans believe that food is so much better in France in general. I recently read an article where the author complained that he was “ruined for life” because he ate a proper French croissant and would never again be able to eat bread for breakfast in the states without feeling disappointed. Could it be true?

Are chocolates, pastries, breads, breakfasts, and foods in general really better in France? There was only one way to find out!

Continued in Part 2.

Comments · Parlez-vous Sucre? Part 1

Klara
Jan 27, 2012

I’m Belgian, living in Brussels. I have been living one year in France and it is definitely true that chocolates, pastries and breads are better in France. Bread is very important for them, they eat it with everything. And all their pastries are delicious. But I am happy that I don’t eat those sugary things anymore
Enjoy your stay! Do you speak French?

DavidVanadia
Jan 27, 2012

Hi Klara, I only speak a few French words and phrases. Maybe by the next time I go I’ll have learned enough to have a small conversation.

What’s the sugar situation like in Brussels?

Klara
Jan 27, 2012

Hi David

I stopped eating sugary things since 1 July 2011 and it’s going well.
Many people are telling me they want to quit sugar too, but they tell me they can’t do it.
I tell them to read your blog

DavidVanadia
Jan 30, 2012

Hopefully they manage to find their way!