Eating (not) in France
2008 June 4
June 12
We notice that on the long train journey (6 hours, 1 change), nobody else seemed to eat anything. The buffet was almost unpopulated, and I made my way back from it trying to look cool, clutching a random selection of snacks and drinks I’d managed to find.
On the way home, the family of four children next to us did have a packet of biscuits.
The French don’t snack – it’s not easy to find a quick gap-filler. Food is of the sitting-down-at-a-table variety. They don’t eat in the streets, except for nibbling the baguette they’ve just bought. We’ve been aware of this for a long time: but several hours on a train, including lunch time. Not a sandwich in sight. How do they do it?
