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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMini DU Meetup -- in Paris!
I am on vacation in Paris, and DFW works there now and then..........so we decided to have lunch there!
DFW:
DFW and me:
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)Looks like a good time!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Fla Dem
(23,342 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)MLAA
(17,162 posts)What excellent company you each keep!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)We are great friends and so are our spouses. We spent a week together last year in Germany, and they've visited us in California.
He is very knowledgeable about politics and we always hear the best stories!
I just try to keep up my end of the conversation.
JuJuYoshida
(2,213 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)It was amazing and delicious!
DFW
(54,047 posts)Last edited Fri May 24, 2019, 03:25 AM - Edit history (1)
It was started over 25 years ago by a rich French man who loved the teppan yaki restaurant in the Méridien hotel in Paris. When the head chef there was contemplating retiring and returning to Japan, the French patron was devastated, and persuaded the chef to come with him to open their own place--as it happens RIGHT near my office there! The Japanese chef has long since retired and finally did return to Japan. However, he schooled a new generation of chefs from around Asia (ours today was Cambodian) to be as good as he was, and the food was excellent, as it has been since the place opened so long ago.
Peggy and I got lucky. Usually you can NEVER get a seat there at lunch time. However, today, we went a little later than the usual lunch crowd, and the weather was glorious, nicest day of the year so far here in Central Europe. So, all the outside cafés were jammed, and we had this place to ourselves. Since I was on kind of a tight schedule, this worked out perfectly for me. It turned out Peggy and I wanted the same thing (salad plus a fish assortment after grilled tofu), so ordering was easy. I noticed Peggy's French was a little rusty--quite excusable if you live in Southern California. So to save time, I did the ordering, and we got to divide the rest of our time between talking about politics and how great the food was. Come to think of it, just like every other time we have met up!
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)I'm going to London next Summer. Maybe I can meet some UK DUers.
DFW
(54,047 posts)However, I found it gracious in the extreme for Peggy to come 5600 miles just to have lunch with me. Now THAT was above and beyond the call of duty!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,228 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)I think Peggy has a few for you stuck away for just such a request!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)elleng
(130,126 posts)Great to see this, Peg!
DFW
(54,047 posts)It was a VERY BIG TWEEZER if it makes you feel any better!
Happy to see you 2 enjoying yourselves!
DFW
(54,047 posts)Peggy and I usually see eye to eye about 90% or more of the time. It makes for rapid-fire conversation, as we can cover one theme and move on to the next in a hurry. In our 45 minutes today, we managed to touch on Butigieg, Inslee, Howard Dean, Biden, Sanders, Harris, Klobuchar, Pelosi, and a whole bunch of YOU guys ( )
elleng
(130,126 posts)Response NOT required!
DFW
(54,047 posts)Mostly just mentioning our one trick ponies. Posters who only show up to post about one sole subject, repeat their line ad nauseam, and then vanish into the fog when there are posts about ANYthing else happening in the world. Like people who go out to restaurants for thirty years and never order anything other than beef barley soup with a slice of whole wheat bread--kinda difficult to take seriously.
The rest of you got off scott free, I promise!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)I gave mine a try and then slunk back to the fork!
elleng
(130,126 posts)backtoblue
(11,323 posts)Whenever you guys are ready to visit the crazies here in the Ozarks, let me know!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)DFW is certainly awesome--I'm just along for the ride!
DFW
(54,047 posts)I've never been to the Ozarks. Maybe we should take backtoblue up on that suggestion someday. Paris is routine for me. But the Ozarks? I've seen pictures, and the nature looks pretty nice there. Just watch out for predatory wild animals, you know--bears, wolves, Republicans with guns, and the like.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Republicans and other wild animals--HA!
DFW
(54,047 posts)Speak for yourself! That's 7 time zones away from me!
Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)Im just a few hours away. I would have loved to meet two of the legends of DU.
DFW
(54,047 posts)But for future reference, how far away are you?
Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)So my perspective may be skewed. I do enjoy reading posts from both of you.
From Paris, Im about four hours away by car. Near an American base with lots of air traffic.
DFW
(54,047 posts)By any chance?
Lurking is not the same as coming on here only to defend Monsanto (or any other single subject to the exclusion of all else). So you are quite safe!!
Although I was trying not to be too obvious about it. Im mostly undercover here.
DFW
(54,047 posts)You should have let us know last year. Making it up to the Düsseldorf area would have been a lot easier for you.
Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)We are supposed to be here at least another year. 🙂
Otherwise, if you ever have occasion to be in the K-D area, let me know. I'm usually always on the road, but have been known to take a day or two off every month (shhh, my immediate superiors do not know that).
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Glad to see y'all having a great time!
DFW
(54,047 posts)If you're in either of our neighborhoods, you're welcome to stop by! Another DUer stopped by our place in Düsseldorf, and lived to tell the tale.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)We'll get there some day.