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Old 03-23-2006, 01:59 PM
LittleOldLady LittleOldLady is offline
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Default Re: Weird Things about Europe

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Something that's rather weird about Belgium, Holland and I think France to Americans is that we eat raw hamburgermeat.

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Odder still is that (at least in Holland) they call this "filet Americain"

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In America it's called steak tartare. WHen I first encountered the name filet Americain, I was amused by the equivalence of Americans with Tatars....
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