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NYC Restaurants Pull Together To Support City's French Eateries
New York 1 News ^
| 4/11/03
| Elizabeth Gerst
Posted on 04/11/2003 10:00:54 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: ken5050
"FREE bottle of NY State wine...."
Pheth! Ya get what you pay for!.
Now, a good California wine.....................
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:42:12 AM PDT
by
aShepard
To: aShepard
All right, I was trying to make a point....andn BTW there are a few NY wines OK for cooking with...
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:43:37 AM PDT
by
ken5050
To: jimbo123
The French may have already forgotten, but we have not!
Frogs can go to Hell.... Never trust a nation who will not even fight for its own Liberty. The French give Liberty lip service, while performing fellatio to the forces of tyranny.
To: jimbo123
Hurting American chefs, staff, proprietors, affiliates, suppliers, is pure stupidity.
Few, if any, "French restaurants" are owned by the french. Boycotting them is like shooting ourselves in the foot.
French food is sophisticated and diverse. Eat it if you like it.
Just don't order French wine, cheese, or any other French product.
To: aristotleman
I agree.
If these French restaurants took french wine off the list, and stuck to non-French ingredients, I'd support them entirely.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:28:15 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
("Democracy, whiskey! And sexy!")
To: jimbo123
Though some stopped short of calling it an official boycottThat's the great thing. There is no centralized boycott! Practically every person that is boycotting all things French came to the decision on his/her own.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:30:44 AM PDT
by
Timesink
To: jimbo123
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!! capitalism at its best! America speaks with her buying power- good bye frogs!!!!!!
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:32:18 AM PDT
by
lawgirl
(Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma)
To: InvisibleChurch
sumptuous beige Two words that should NEVER appear next to each other.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:32:29 AM PDT
by
Timesink
To: lawgirl
How many business people on expense accounts are going to take a chance on invite clients and customers to a French restaurant and risk having the conversation turn to to the war and politics instead of cordially small talk and business? French restaurants are no longer politically safe for business lunches and dinners.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:35:59 AM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: SirAllen
Maybe so. But in that event we're impacting Americans more than the French. We don't want to hurt our folks any more than ncessary. I guess it'll be up the the individual boycotter.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:38:45 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(So..... This is Virginia..... where are all the virgins?)
To: jimbo123
This is one of the stupidest aspects of the boycott, about on the same level of pouring out French wine that is already bought. I'm no fan of France and bash them with elan, but come on - at this level, most restaurants aren't franchised and aren't corporate. They're overwhelmingly owned and staffed by Americans, merely serving up French cuisine.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:43:44 AM PDT
by
Chancellor Palpatine
(and in Paris, after a parade celebrating the fall of Hussein, they give out medals to everybody)
To: theDentist
But in that event we're impacting Americans more than the FrenchNot necessarily. Who's to say who is making the most money off these goods?
The fact is that any boycott hurts Americans somewhere, at least temporarily. There's always an American middleman selling the foreign goods, unless you are importing directly. So anything you boycott will hurt an American seller somewhere, so should we never boycott? Of course not. The great thing about free markets is that the Americans that are being hurt can easily move on to another venue, for example the same number of people in this country are still eating aren't they? So close your French restaurant and open an Italian one.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:48:11 AM PDT
by
SirAllen
To: jimbo123
Very good point.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:48:28 AM PDT
by
lawgirl
(Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma)
To: SpinyNorman
Le Cirque is not a French restaurant, its continental.
I at at Lespinasse, it is (was) a fantastic place.
I've head Perrier and Evian sales are way down.
To: oceanview
head = heard
To: jiggyboy
LOL, you'll need a sack of Valium for your first trip to Silicon Valley. Mexicans do the show at some of the Benihana's. I went to one in Fort Lauderdale where the cook was Ecuadorian. Even here in New York, many Pizzerias are owned by Albanians or Greeks and staffed by Mexicans.
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posted on
04/11/2003 12:16:12 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: aShepard; ken5050
NY State produces the best Riesling outside of Germany up in the Finger Lakes. California can't make ANY drinkable whites worth sh-t. Cali should stick to Cabs, Merlots and Zinfandel. For whites, I'll stick with Portuguese Vinho Verde to wash down my Oysters.
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posted on
04/11/2003 12:20:21 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: jimbo123
Interesting. I feel saddened that patriotic French-Americans will be hurt by this. I agree with the logic of patronizing (as long is it isn't French corp. owned) but avoiding France's wines, etc. This has been a tough year for me personally. Never have I been so ashamed of my heritage - I despise Chirac - what a chochon! (pig). Yes, I am of French blood, but not the spineless snail-eating commies like cochon-Chirac who puts extra francs in his pockets while Saddam exterminates infants.
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posted on
04/11/2003 12:31:07 PM PDT
by
ladywolf
To: InvisibleChurch
"One of Manhattan's premier French restaurants, Lespinasse, announced it would close next week because it couldn't turn a profit in the current economic climate."
To paraphrase a collegiate sophomoric cheer:
"More Beer! Lespinasse!"
I guess that Frenchmen have less military skill, less judgement, and less courage. It makes sense that they have Lespinasse."
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posted on
04/11/2003 12:38:37 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
("Democracy, whiskey! And sexy!")
To: Clemenza
You've got to try the Cuvaison Chardonnay.
www.cuvaison.com/
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posted on
04/11/2003 1:19:24 PM PDT
by
aShepard
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