Things that are French Quiz

Eatinf dinner at The French Laundry is like attending an event. 6 or 7 courses of absolute perfection. Dinner can easily take 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Unbelievably pricey, but worth it once every other year or so.

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Kind of surprised that 9% got French Laundry.

I'm surprised that I got the French Laundry and not French Toast :/

you'll never eat their toast again once you taste their dirty underpants.

Accept French Guyana for French Guiana

Agreed.

Same. I eventually overcame my brain freeze on the spelling, but it took awhile.

I agree with disagreeing. If there didnt allready exist a country with the name Guyana I would be fine with it. But this only contributes to the confusion, people will never be able to get it straight. Thinking something is something else, is worse than a spelling error, I would almost say no matter how bad the spelling error is, but ofcourse there are limits. (I am thankfull for the first time I read spelling it Guyana was a mistake. It is like when you meet someone after a long while and call them by the wrong name. Like hey John ... It is Dave... -_- John is my brother.. it makes you feel very silly)

Guyana isnt correct, Guinea isnt correct, Ghana isn't correct and neither is guarana.

In France, just order your food "avec frites". Just never say "frites francais." You may get your butt kicked. Well...not if you are in France.

yes but pommes frites is not fried apples... it is fries.

It means "fried potatoes". "Pommes frites" or just "frites" are used because, shockingly, other languages use short forms and slang as well.

What the Hades, I always get the wars right...

So it's not french if it's not sexy? :D

Were I come its called French fried toast

We call french toast wentelteefje. And it has an unclear etymology, wentel is obviously turning, wentelen=wenden. But the 2nd part means something different nowadays, it is female dog... and that is definitely not where it comes from. An unlikely explanation is that it comes from "wentel 't even/eventjes" which means turn it for a little while. But it is more likely that teef(je) comes from an not know anymore word for a specific pastry/bread.

It doesn't help to be a french speaker for this one ^^.

That is great haha, it does kind of work with the tongue exchange. If your tongue is moved, different sounds are produced.

I was luckily not sunk quite so deep into the linguistics, and figured what it was trying to say after only a few seconds.

My first thought was the same, but it took only a few seconds.

I did the same thing but luckily guessed French Lick anyway.

pommes frites is apple fries because pommes means apple in english

Pomme de terre is potato, but it takes too long to say, like everything in French.

Pomme de terre is potato, but chips/French fries are called pommes frites or just frites.

@wildcat, dont just go making stuff up. Or make it obvious that you are joking. Because otherwise others might actually believe you and spreading false "facts"...

Could a clearer clue than Quebecois be put forward? I mean, it's just a demonym; it could refer to the Quebecois dialect, or the geographical area, etc. Maybe, "A Quebecois person, for example"?

Agreed

...or at the least, accept Canada. (There's no Canada like french Canada its the best Canada in the land. The other Canada is a bull***t Canada, if you lived here for a day you'd understand. You'd understand) --South park reference.

Quebecois makes no sense. You need to be clearer!

Really? I can't picture anything else fitting. As another Canadian, I'm just glad we're on there.

How about "dialect"? Wikipedia says that "Quebecois" is used to refer to "the predominant variety of the French language in Canada".

For a "French" quiz, it's one of the most American quizzes on the site! :)

Most of these things are not really French, only called that by Americans.

Amused by your expression 'Gawd and Benett'..... originally 'Gordon Bennett'...... and my Father used it quite a lot and told me the expression came from a Gordon Bennett who was engaged to a posh, rich young woman and one evening he arrived at the fiancés great manor drunk and peed in the fireplace in front of her parents and guests: (did not get the girl)

@CardinalSin You were right! The Gordon Bennett who sent Stanley to find Livingstone (of the New York Herald, not Times) is the very same fireplace urinator.

That is the case with most things that are named after a country, especially true about diseases...

Surprisingly enough 'French Toast' is not related to France, it came from a Mr. French who popularised the snack.