These days, French people eat fewer baguettes, roughly one half of a baguette per day.Despite the drop in baguette consumption in France, that’s still a lot of baguettes—nearly six billion A time-honoured tradition is to grab and twists off the end of the baguette (The baguette as we know it today, made with white flour, elongated shape and fluffy interior didn’t exist until the 19th century. Share it with your friends!Have you ever asked yourself what the world think about you just because you were born in a certain nation? There’s even a derogatory term in English to refer to the French—frogs, frog eaters and sometimes froggies.No harm no foul! The accordion was a popular instrument in France in the 19 th century, up to around the 1930’s, with its bal musette music.


So why is smoking associated so strongly with the French?Part of the reason might be due to Tobacco’s history in France which goes back to the time of Napoleon however cigarette smoking hit an all-time high during the two world wars all the way through to the fifties when the cigarette was associated with values of freedom and courage, and then with glamour and coolness thanks to the movies. It would be akin to a tourist visiting San Francisco or New York and making assumptions about the rest of the country based on that one experience.Then there are the people In the South of France, where I live who tend to be a bit more casual.

Blame in on the language (who can really keep it together with all those rolling vowel sounds), the food, or the impossibly pretty landscape, but the French have a lot to love in life & they seem to do it quite well.Faux, well almost. The French are seen as food snobs, elitist that will not speak any English, and will wear berets while holding a bag of […]Only people who are completely ignorant of history would ever consider the French to be cowards, but hey, as long as it makes people feel superior about themselves, they will continue to believe what they like.mdr i’m french and all the stereotupes re wrong !! It wasn’t used to refer to “French bread” until the 1920’s.

Over 12 tonnes of snails are cooked and eaten over the course of three days.The world considers France a nation of wine drinkers and producers and most French people would probably agree with you.Wine is one of the symbols of French culture, tradition and gastronomy—and it shows.
This is pretty typical at schools in France.Cheddar cheese is NEVER served at schools in France. French producers cannot keep up with demand so France must import most its frog meat from Indonesia which is the world’s largest exporter of frog meat, exporting more than 5000 tonnes of frog meat each year, mostly to France, Belgium and Luxemburg.The earliest source for frog legs being eaten in France is in the Annals of the Catholic Church from the 12th century when French monks ate frogs.

Faux, well almost. Such stereotypes are usually prejudicial and often ill-informed, and often overlap with ethnic or racial stereotypes. A French person would feel rushed or pestered in a North American restaurant.French people are used to eating at their own pace. I haven’t distributed any surveys, but when I see a group of runners whizzing past me on a Saturday morning while I’m contemplating how to work in a Faux. She was one of the first French designers to turn the striped shirt into a French fashion statement back in 1916.In 1963, Brigitte Bardot wore the striped shirt in the film “Soon other celebrities were seen wearing striped shirts like Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe,  and suddenly it went from a humble masculine sailors shirt to a fashionable thing to wear.Jean-Paul Gaultier eventually appropriated the striped shirt for his 1978 line, no longer simply called striped shirt, but now called “une marinière”, in his 1978 show. Not anymore at least.You’re more likely to see a beret sitting pretty atop the If you’re lucky enough to travel to Paris (or any other largish city in France), you’ll definitely see military personnel patrolling hot-spots like the Eiffel tower in formations of 3 or 4, always wearing a beret and always holding a standard assault rifle. And it’s actually quite difficult to find in French grocery stores and butcher shops.According to UN figures, the US and France are two of the largest importers of Frog legs; with That’s a lot of frogs. In fact, as of this writing, France doesn’t even produce Cheddar cheese.Milk is never served in schools probably because the kids are served cheese instead. Mainly because that’s what a lot of French people associate with the English. Parisians enjoyed the bread but it took the rest of France a little more time to fall in love with this strange new bread.Gradually over time, the recipe evolved and milk was eventually eliminated from the bread recipe, which to this day has made baguettes very affordable in France—around a Euro.If you’re ever in a French boulangerie in France, order “le pain tradition”. And finally, bread should always be on hand to soak up all the wonderfully rich and buttery garlic herb sauce. Some French people are even unaware of certain stereotypes like the one about French people being stinky.I’ve lived in France since 2011 and here is what I can tell you..No!

No matter where in France you are, whether it be a small town or big town you will always see people with a baguette in their hand. According to Dumas, Simon made a fortune fattening up frogs from his region and selling them to Parisian restaurants where frog legs were very much in Fashion..By the end of the century, frog legs were considered a national delicacy, the English no doubt, disgusted by its neighbours eating habits have been poking fun of the French for eating frogs ever since.something else that may or may not have helped solidify the French stereotype as a nation of frog eaters may be due to an obscure chef named Donat Pucheu who commercialized frogs from Rayne Louisiana in the restaurants of New Orleans in the 1800s.