After 5 years of living in France, some elderly British people are still not able to tell the difference between pate and cat food. This would not surprise me too much, (there is some terrible pate out there), except that there is a big photo of a cat on the cat food tin. Or did they think they were eating pate de chat (cat) ?

Elderly couple rave about 'gorgeous' pâté before realising they've been eating cat food
Angela Holloway's elderly parents accidentally ate cat food, believing it was pâté, after she forgot to separate her own items from her parents' when picking up their groceries
By Emma Rosemurgey

12:59, 24 May 2021

An elderly couple have hilariously and unknowingly developed a love for eating cat food, after mistaking it for pâté.

Angela Holloway was confused when her mum Margaret Lincoln and step-dad Donald Lincoln asked her to pick up some more of the 'gorgeous' pâte she'd given them after delivering their weekly shop.

Her mother, 80-year-old Margaret, told her they had eaten "a really lovely dinner of absolutely gorgeous pâté and baked bread," and even asked her to pick up some more.

However, a very confused Angela was left "howling with laughter" after her mum showed her the packet, only for her to discover it was in fact a tin of cat food she had bought for her own pet.

The confusion occurred because the label was written in French, as the family, who are originally from Sheffield, moved to France back in 2015, but haven't quite fully gotten the hang of reading all labels.

"Obviously, living in France, it's quite hard, we kind of have to work out what something is," Angela explained.
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European culture sure has broken down huh

An interesting alternative for less fortunate gourmets and cuisine amateurs from abroad.
Expect a catfood price rise at Thai Huot supermarket, or a label switch on the cans.

Clue for our non-fluent Anglo Saxons gourmets elderlies tourists : when an animal is pictured on a can, it's either food for it, or made of it.

As long as they enjoyed it, why not

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:41 pm I ate dog food when drunk. Wasn't so bad.

I ate dog thinking it was either beef or lamb, it was awesome.

laugh all you want...
No flies on these two old cookies - they're awoke to the joke