SC - Manual de Mujeres #63,77-80

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

I'm pretty sure they used this book for food consultation on the set of
"Xena, Warrior Princess"...

Adamantius, who once nearly caused a riot as a teenager during a
theatrical screening of the 1938 "Adventures of Robin Hood" by yelling,
"There's ALWAYS room for Jello!!!"

Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
> 
> Cindy wrote:
> >I'm just howling because this is happening in Germany, where
> >people should know better than to serve corn on the cob & call it medieval
> >cuisine.
> 
> You know, I have here a book which is the very worst example of this kind of
> thing that I´ve ever come across. This is a German translation but the
> original is in French, "La cuisine avec Astérix". It is a cookbook for
> children that is supposed to tell them how they can eat like the Gauls, 50
> BC. Yeah, right. There is hardly any recipe in the book that doesn´t include
> tomatoes, bell peppers, avocadoes, chocolate, instant coffee, pineapple,
> mayonnaise, margarine, even pink marshmallows and surimi ... in short, these
> are ordinary and fairly unimaginative dishes, meant to appeal to children,
> and virtually the only thing that connects them to the Asterix comics is one
> illustration on each page, taken from the books and has in most cases
> absolutely nothing to do with the recipe.
> 
> The whole thing looks as if someone took a modern children´s cookbook, added
> a few illustrations from the Asterix books and gave each recipe a name like
> "Cleopatras Exotic Cake" or "Caesar´s Imperial Cocktail" or "Druid Salad"
> (that´s the one with the pink marshmallows - it also has canned pineapple,
> bell peppers and mayonnaise, but no Jell-O, I´m sorry to say). Which is
> probably what happened.
> 
> This would be hilarious if not for the fact that I gather the book has been
> very popular - the German translation is the 5th printing - and there are at
> least two others in the series, both probably just as inaccurate. So all the
> children who have got these books are probably convinced that tomatoes,
> chocolate and pink marshmallows were everyday fare in Gaul in 50 BC. And
> will quite happily serve you a Talentixburger seasoned with worchestersauce
> or Hot Dogs Idefix, followed by Wild Boar Chocolate Truffles, because that´s
> what the book says the Gauls ate.
> 
> But who knows - after all, Asterix did travel to the New World ...
> 
> Nanna
> 
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