Sunday, February 19, 2012

SOFT SELL

Easy-to-eat yogurt merchandised in easy-to-get-hooked-on-collecting glazed terra cotta pots. The French are not big milk drinkers but eat lots and lots of yogurt, averaging a hefty 21 kilograms per person per year. The second largest group of yogurt consumers in Europe, just behind Germans.

VOCABULARY
le yaourt:  yogurt
yaourt aux fruits:  fruit yogurt
yaourt nature:  plain yogurt
yaourt au lait entier:  whole milk yogurt
yaourt glacé:  frozen yogurt
terre cuite:  terra cotta
une glaçure:  a glaze

Expression
Pédaler dans le yaourt:  To get nowhere fast

Link
For the easy, fun and famous French kids' yogurt cake recipe which uses the yogurt pot as a measure, click here. 

©2012 P.B. Lecron

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