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141 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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141 months ago

   wrote:

this blanquette (of veal)is a brief taste of heaven

My comment:

eternity is linked to heaven so the veal that has just come out of the microwave, maybe its smell, is just a small taste of heaven-we use the expression-heavenly

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141 months ago

   wrote:

I don't know about "brief", but my working translation was "this blanquette tastes heavenly".

141 months ago

   wrote:

I put in "brief" because of the word "moment"- which gives the idea that it was momentarily heavenly-a small glimpse of heaven-you have to decide then, as you have the text and the rest of the translation-we only have a part

141 months ago

   wrote:

I put in "brief" because of the word "moment"- which gives the idea that it was momentarily heavenly-a small glimpse of heaven-you have to decide then, as you have the text and the rest of the translation-we only have a part

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141 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

this blanquette (of veal)is a brief taste of heaven

My comment:

eternity is linked to heaven so the veal that has just come out of the microwave, maybe its smell, is just a small taste of heaven-we use the expression-heavenly

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141 months ago

English -French - English medical, scientific ++   wrote:

This blanquette stew is an eternal moment

My comment:

You can put stew or not

141 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

this blanquette is divine.

My comment:

It's so good it will be remembered forever?

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

141 months ago

   wrote:

This is along the lines of my working translation, but I'm going to wait and see if anybody else comes up with what I did.

141 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

"is to die for..." since we are dead a long time:)? It might be too informal.

141 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

"is frozen in etertinity"... Just kidding. I find it amusing that a fast microwave meal should convey feelings of eternity.

141 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

J'adore le jeu de mots (is frozen in eternity) et je suis d'accord avec le fait qu'un vrai gastronome ne peut qualifier un plat à mettre au micro-ondes de moment d'éternité.

141 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

Me again... If it's not about taste, then could it be that the person was so impatient that waiting for the microwave to heat it up "seemed to take forever"? Just exploring possibilities. Less likely, but... well.

141 months ago

Marie-Claire   wrote:

this blanquette(of veal I suppose) is a pause/ a break in eternity

My comment:

I think that, when you say that, you feel as though you had stolen a piece of eternity: you can imagine Dominique siting back and gaping, imagining himself in paradise.