Question

[james_davis_nicoll]

Is it possible to find nice things to say about France without the ensuing discussion rapidly evolving into a U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A! discussion of health-care systems and such?

No.

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you survived. I bet the wine was that crappy drinkable stuff that had a complicated flavour, compared to, say, alcoholic grape juice?

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

I could barely choke down more than four or five glasses of the stuff.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain.

They probably had Champagne, from Reims on board too.

Tut, tut, tut...

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Indeed they did. Served at takeoff and in the airport lounge beforehand. But only a philistine would substitute champagne for coffee.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Coffee on planes? Obviously for domestic US flights there really is no point, on account of it tastes like brown water. For long haul, it depends on the flight times and what the jet lag status will be at arrival.

That said, I rarely turn down a glass of champagne if offered. Somehow it tastes better before takeoff when you know that more than half the passengers won't be tasting it :)

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. When they offer the juice or champagne before take off I always take both.

But I will drink good coffee or bad. I prefer good and will seek it out, but when bad is all that is on offer, bad it is.