Mr Bean

So here we are after 4 weeks in France and I am finally adding my experiences! So the first restaurant we went to – in Vichy I think – having trudged all over town looking for the perfect place to eat by a river, we finally found it and starving from all the trudging I was delighted to see steak on the menu! Having proudly ordered using my ‘broken french’ I settled back content in the knowledge I’d be eating well tonight. Ok so if you have seen Mr Bean www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qcs0tnx9ik – it totally gives you a picture of what happened next!!!

Out came my much-desired steak and to my horror I was presented with a plate of pasty, cold and absolutely raw mince with a raw egg on top to boot!!! My face was a reflection of Mr Bean’s when he realised what he had ordered and he stuffed his into every container on the table and even in someone’s handbag – but that option wasn’t open to me. I just had to grimace, suck it in and stuff it in my mouth. I am not one to enjoy a steak that runs around the plate on it’s own oozing red fluids so eating raw cow was going to be a real deal effort! However with much snapping of the camera from Rick I managed that first mouthful and to my surprise it was actually not bad!! Tepid, not cold, no oozing of fluids and the raw runny egg yolk gave it a bearable flavour. My welcome to France!