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    French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
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    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    So Comtesse Ole' Dried Up sure is sassy in that dead behind the eyes way.
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    Image of citymuse citymuse
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    I'm amazed the Countess even knows her way around the kitchen, much less peddle a cookbook, if she takes such pride in not cooking anything herself.


    And honestly, someone has to teach her some basic, selling 101 skills. You can't successfully market a product on a wide scale if you shamelessly condescend to the people you're trying to sell it to. Never American chocolate, my foot.


    Condescending arrogance just really irks the egalitarian side of me. It shows a complete lack of grace and decency that no amount of titles or riches can cover up.

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    12/16/08

    @citymuse: "You can't successfully market a product on a wide scale if you shamelessly condescend to the people you're trying to sell it to"

    Do you not get to the Bergdorf's makeup counters much?
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Isn't this just a recipe for pavlova? Looks it to me...
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    Image of SleeplessNights SleeplessNights
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    This woman reminds me of a villianess from a Judith Krantz novel.


    Which reminds me, a grey day like today is the perfect time to re-read Princess Daisy.

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    12/15/08

    @SleeplessNights: Oh, are you thinking of La Comtesse Cora Robert de Lioncourt?

    *hides face in shame*
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    Image of The Queen of No The Queen of No
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    God, I love Martha Stewart. I think I'd even work for her; I don't care if she's an uber control freak!
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    Image of GoodBadNotEvil GoodBadNotEvil
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Sorry Comptesse, but French royalty hasn't been around in hundreds of years. I hate these European "royalty" who don't seem to realize there is no more royalty in their country and cling on desperately to titles which have no meaning or use anymore. Sorry honey, you're a pleb like everyone else now!
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    Image of Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter
    12/15/08

    @GoodBadNotEvil: They are still, technically, royalty. It's like the Greeks, they are titled but not ruling. They call them "pretenders" which means they lay claim to an abolished throne. Most of them just desperately hold on to their castles and shizz while trying to marry the kids off to some new money.


    I watch a lot of PBS. ;)

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    Image of Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni! Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
    12/15/08

    @Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter:


    Deference to the heirs to abolished thrones should be optional, IMHO.

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    Image of Jamie Sommers Jamie Sommers
    12/15/08

    @GoodBadNotEvil: And I bet Martha could buy and sell the Countess. A lot of these European aristocrats really don't have much money.
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    Image of PhillyLass PhillyLass
    12/15/08

    @Tiger Lourdes: Zombie Hunter: I think the 'pretenders' reference is pretty relevant here. If there's no throne to claim, they're full of shit to bandy about titles that refer to... nothing. My niece _pretends_ she's a t-rex, but her imagination doesn't make it so.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    12/15/08

    @PhillyLass: The hell you say! I regularly turn into a butterfly on pretty sunny days.
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Why in the hell was she on this show?
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    Image of Dodai Dodai
    12/15/08

    @LucilleMcGillicuddy: She has a book, believe it or not.
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    Image of LucilleMcGillicuddy LucilleMcGillicuddy
    12/15/08

    @Dodai: So I am supposed to buy a cookbook written by a woman who hasn't cooked anything in 26 years? How about I spend the money ordering some dessert next time I go out? I figure I'll still end up ahead on the deal and I can support an actual pastry chef.


    Who's with me?

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    Image of PhillyLass PhillyLass
    12/15/08

    @LucilleMcGillicuddy: Word. I mean, is she even giving her pastry chef a share of the profits? It's pretty clear he or she is the real talent behind this book.
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    Image of sadiehawkins sadiehawkins
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Oh you didn't even mention when she sneered at the thought of "American chocolate" -- "Never, never American chocolate" she scoffed.
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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    12/15/08

    @sadiehawkins: but American chocolate is crap. she's hardly alone there. once you've eaten Lindt (which is a relatively low-end chocolate), it's hard to go back to overprocessed Hershey's, and that's what she means.
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    12/15/08

    @PilgrimSoul: 'Cuz American chocolate uses butter and milkfat, or peanut oil, or cottonseed oil, or coconut oil, rather than cocoa butter!
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    12/15/08

    @PilgrimSoul: But...what about small, quality processors? I've had some good chocolate from some American places.
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    Image of Alohamaid Alohamaid
    12/15/08

    @Red-headed bookworm: EXACTLY, try Guitard on the serious it is better than any European chocolate I've tried.
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    12/15/08

    @PilgrimSoul: Well, that's not quite fair. I mean, Hershey's is pretty much the bottom of the chocolate barrel. Even CVS has fancier stuff next to Hershey bars in their candy aisle.
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    12/16/08

    @Alohamaid: Not a lady... But anyway... I was saying why cheap chocolate can't compete, not why all American chocolate sucks.


    And I don't know whether Martha actually recommended good chocolate (I assume she did not), or why (as I did) because I didn't see the rest of the show. I do assume that PilgrimSoul and Martha are talking about American grocery-store chocolate, though.


    Also, here's this:

    [www.chocolateresearchfacility.com]

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    Image of Alohamaid Alohamaid
    12/16/08

    @2pint: my apologies. I totally agree most mass produced American chocolate is shit but I find it a little sad people not realize how many great chocolate houses we have on these shores. I can get scharffen burger in my grocery store, so I think good chocolate is become more widespread.
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    12/16/08

    @Alohamaid: No offense taken. I like just about any chocolate I can get my hands on... But I read the label if my wallet isn't particularly fat at the moment. ;)
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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    This is the way little old French ladies act. I don't know how else to put it. But I guess it's always fun to watch American commenters who get their hackles up when any generalization is made about them make fun of the French.
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    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    I hope she has a hand with this wine, my favoritest bodega wine, Chateau Diana.


    [www.chateaud.com]


    How do you say "Vom in a Bottle" au francias?

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    Image of Mr. Mittens (né nodoubt9203) Mr. Mittens (né nodoubt9203)
    12/15/08

    @CrossWord: Vom au boootle would be the most logical! lol actually vomi embouteillé or vomissure embouteillée
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    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Martha drives me nuts for being so condescending all the time, it's nice to see her get the treatment
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    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Someone will be waking up with the tastefully wreathed head of a Thoroughbred on the feather pillow next to them.
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    Image of AthertonMerriweather AthertonMerriweather
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Meh. I'm waiting for the Countess de Lesseps to come on and show Martha how to coach people for job interviews. Special performance by her breakdancing son!
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    12/15/08

    @AthertonMerriweather: Countess de Lesseps has agreed to appear, provided that no one refers to her by her first name.
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    Image of Samanthrax Samanthrax
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    Nothing cures a little recession depression likes making jokes alluding to servitude.
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    Image of margotenenbaum margotenenbaum
    12/15/08

    In reply to French Countess Gets Très Bitchy With Martha Stewart
    wait was Vaux le Vicomte the chateau from that ridiculous Leonardo Dicaprio Man in the Iron Mask movie? I think it is . . . I have a vague recollection from an art history class. If not, what movie is it in?
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    12/15/08

    @margotenenbaum: Looks like it. That movie is one of my guiltiest pleasures. It sucks and I LOVE it.
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