CSI: Quebec -- Crack French police unit still pursues English-speaking lawbreakers

[James Harbeck]

>to see if French lettering is at least twice the =20=
>
>size of everything else.

I remember an amusing editorial cartoon of a guy with a french fry
stand, and his sign said

FRENCH
FRIES

but with the word "French" twice as large as the word "fries."

Which reminds me of one of the greatest evidences of the superiority
of Quebecois culture: poutine (fries with cheese curds and gravy).
It's popular throughout Canada now. Gravy has always been popular on
fries in English Canada, but the cheese curds to make it poutine
really caught on outside of Quebec maybe 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, in the US, if I ask for gravy with my fries, I get a look
like the one I get from a pharmacist (in the US, not in Canada) if I
ask about pain relievers with codeine: like they want to put me in
rehab.

James Harbeck.

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