Le Fooding; Ghoul Factor

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:40 PM -0500 2/9/01, Robert Kelly wrote:
>Fooding may be a nonce-coinage for France in '99 -- but the same word was
>to be seen on many a little roadside restaurant in India when I travelled
>there in 1983.  It was evidently prompted by lodging, since the most
>prominent sign would typically say FOODING & LODGING.
>
>Do we have here the influence of the zillions of French hippies who
>scoured Rishikesh and the foothills in the 1970s and 80s, now turned into
>the entrepreneurs of 2001?

Somehow I doubt it.  "Le parking" (for a parking lot), "le
shampooing", "le tennisman", etc. were around back when Etiemble
wrote his diatribe against Franglais back in the 60's.