Wednesday 12 October 2011

A Confectionary Review of A Foreign Type Nature

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Tom the Scientist, with the big brain, had been to Switzerland to attend a conference of a significant and probing  forensic type nature and had bought us a present back.
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To be honest we were expecting a Toblerone, but Tom said that would have been a cliché gift and anyway we could get a one from the village Tesco Express, so instead he had purchased some chocolate, which he thought would help Nigel with his French.
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When we attempted to translate La Semeuse into English on Google, we were none the wiser as it came up as “The Sower” ? However, we were luckier with “chocolat au lait fourré au cafe mocca”, which we found out means milk chocolate with mocha coffee.
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The milk chocolate was lovely and smooth but the mocha filling was a little rich and a trifle bitter for Nigel’s palette, though Darrell and I enjoyed it enormously as sophisticates. We have not noticed any particular improvement in Nigel’s French either, although to be truthful, we can’t understand his English most of the time!

3 comments:

Mr. D said...

Wow - Tom the Scientist abroad. He will be bringing something even more spohisticated next time - like Milky Bars or candy cigarettes. I expect the latter are now banned in the UK.

Monkey - Confectionary Expery said...

Sweet cigarettes are now called candy sticks in the UK now Mr D and they are not allowed to have a red end!

Mr. D said...

Thank you, oh expert, for your knowledge.