Cait - the mm thing makes me laugh. I did a summer abroad as part of my Int'l Studies degree in college. I spent the summer in La Rochelle, France. At the end of the summer, my sister flew over to meet me and travel around. We went to stay with my mom's cousin in the Alps (HELLO!?!?! you have a cousin that has a house in the Alps and this is the first we've heard of her?! WHATEVAH!) and my sister and I went to an outdoor market. There was a vendor selling nougat and we decided to buy some. It was being sold by the gram so say 10 francs for 400 grams.
"400 grams!"I say, "Ali, we couldn't possibly eat that much nougat."
"50 grammes, s'il vous plait,"I say in my very best French.
We couldn't understand the confused look on his face until he handed us
half of a 1" square piece of nougat. 400 grams is less than a pound. 50 grams is something less than 2 ounces. Yeah...we split that nougat between the two of us
We still laugh hysterically over that at family dinners.
