10 August 2009

Ste. Agnès: Fête de Lavande - Donkey Sausages

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At every village Fête you'll find beautiful cheeses and saucissons (a sort of salami sausage).

In the smaller photograph you see saucissons made of sanglier (wild boar) and ane (donkey) - perhaps not to everyone's taste and certainly not the 4-day old donkey and her mother who were not 5 feet away. I didn't tell them...

12 comments:

  1. tout cela donne envie. Il existe beaucoup de saucisson (j'adore le saucisson de canard, hummm)

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  2. You make my mouth water for the cheeses but even these gorgeous photographs can not move me to take a bit of donkey sausage. Did you photograph the 4 day old donkey with its mom?

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  3. The cheeses are beautiful. But I will never eat a dead donkey! :(

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  4. Yes to the cheese, no to the Eeyore sausage!

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  5. Do you think animals know when their kind are butchered and eaten by people?

    I know hogs do. And I assume chickens do, but I don't know about a donkey.

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  6. Brattcat, you bet i photographed the 4 day old donkey. All will be revealed!

    And too right, everyone, I'd not eat a donkey sausage either - well I don't eat meat so that's easy.

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  7. When I first moved to NYC over a decade ago, I stayed with a French girl for a couple of weeks. She would make a meal simply out of various cheeses, saucissons, french baguette and a bottle of red wine.

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  8. très interessant, j´aime les fromages! je serai en Provence en septembre, je ne peux pas attendre deguster ces merveilles là.

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  9. the cheeses look divine but donkey sausage? that is a new one for me. I will try almost all foods once but this one might be a challenge.

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  10. Sausages are fine but installing this stall next to live donkeys is just WAY too cruel (and not a terribly good selling position, I should think).

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  11. Cheeses are one of my favorite foods. Num!! It's interesting to me that many people think nothing of eating meat from a steer, chicken, pig but the thought of eating a donkey is unappealing. Never could understand some aspects of humanity!

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  12. Ah yes, the mystery of where all the old Hungarian donkeys go is indeed solved. I regularly delight my deli owner by asking for 6 slices of donkey.

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