France in a nutshell

This weekend was a long weekend for us in France so Allison and I decided to make the most of it and go to Basque Country on the Southern Atlantic coast of France. I have some really nice pictures I'll put up soon. We had a blast and were on the return journey from Bayonne to Narbonne. It's necessary to change trains in Toulouse so we ended up with a one hour stop over in the Toulouse train station around lunch time. The dining options aren't inspired (actually maybe not too bad for a train station) and although we both never eat fast food (me for vegetarian and health reasons; Allison prefers not to mess with happy food memories of how it tastes in the States), we decided to eat at Quick, the French version of MacDonalds.

We had to pay for ketchup for the french fries which was definitely a French oddity but that wasn't the astounding thing. We decided to have a caramel sundae afterwards, with nuts. Now, I did pay extra for the topping on the sundae, fine, no problem. The problem was we wanted small sundaes...the large were twice as big, too much to eat. Apparently nuts are only served on large size sundaes. I explained I was more than willing to pay for the nuts on the small sundaes. So, my server consulted her co-worker and manager. Absolutely not. scandalous idea. The rule is pecans on LARGE sundaes. Logic and reason be damned. How perverted to wanted pecans on a small sized sundae. So....no nuts for us.