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  • In a province like ours, where cretons, ragoût de pattes de cochon, fèves au lard, and oreilles de crisse are a way of life, one wouldn't exactly think you'd need a Pork Underground.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • To those people I say that some of us obstinate gimps do things you ignorant cretons can't imagine, things that DON'T ADD UP, because you don't expect us to, because you don't think we can.

    Am I a liar? Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • We were often angry at the insensitivity of so many who thought we were "fundamentalist cretons" setting back women's rights.

    Asked at the Saddleback Forum "when does a[n unborn] baby get human rights," why did Obama say the answer is "above my pay grade"? Ann Althouse 2008

  • He is like those cretons who feel we still could have won Vietnam, we just lost the will.

    Think Progress » Murtha Plans To Deny Bush Funding For Troop Escalation 2007

  • Published on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 3: 54PM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 4: 12PM EST cretons spread, foie gras and home-style pâté chinois meat hash?

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • Published on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 3: 54PM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 4: 12PM EST cretons spread, foie gras and home-style pâté chinois meat hash?

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • Highlights: 1. omelet with scallops and sea bass 2. tourtière with real ketchup aux fruits 3. buckwheat ployes with cretons and house-cured gravlax 4. salad with oreilles de crisse, ham, hazelnuts and a mustard vinaigrette 5. tempura-fried lobster maki with foie gras 6. maple-glazed magret de canard with a luscious polenta and brussels sprouts 7. and the house banana split with maple barbe à papa, maple sponge toffee, maple-glazed peanuts, and maple ice cream was certainly the most dramatic of the three ! desserts, but our favorite was the somewhat more subdued maple baked Alaska.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

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