Oú est le moutarde?

So Perfidious Albion has stolen all our mustard. Hurumph.
???

Mustard in all guises in Aldi, M & S Food hall and local independent food shops here (S E Essex)

Off to France this week and now have packed mustard !!!

I'm in France at the moment on a lovely campsite nr Royan on the coast, just stocked up at Lidl but never noticed any mustard will look more closely when I shop again. Lots of Brits here in Motorhomes and caravans.

La moutarde …

Zut Alors!! Je déteste le moutarde. Mais CM etc CF l'aime beaucoup!!

(Cher Mari et Cher Fils)

I think a fair number of people came here from abroad for the Jubilee. I don’t take holidays any more but live in a popular coastal area so I will do my best to keep local people in employment all year!

Plenty of people will be holidaying in Britain this year, LovelyLady but that is entirely their choice.
Perhaps many feel they will get better value abroad, say in Spain or Portugal, with the chance of much better weather too, than in 'rip-off Britain'.
And even if everyone did stay here it won't make enough of a difference to the tourist industry until the foreign tourists return, which doesn't look too likely at the moment.
For me, I shall holiday wherever I like, but I'll almost certainly get better value and service in many countries abroad, where the latter is not a dirty word.

Maybe if you ask for de la moutarde they will find you some. Le moutard is a kid (child)!

I’m saddened you are venturing overseas when our homeland is desperately needing visitors to spend money here.
I know it’s a joke writing about lack of mustard but our own folk need is to spend money here.
Ok we do have freedom to holiday anywhere but please support UK businesses.

However, I am perplexed as to why you have to post about your foray into Google Translate.

Ah, yes. I was thinking it was a Chat thread, but it is a Food thread.

I suppose I just thought it was interesting, so posted about it, thinking that this was a free-roaming Chat thread.

But, as it is a Food thread, it was off-topic, so I apologise.

StarDreamer

Marydoll

The OP isn't sitting a French exam and despite being a linguist and life long pedant, I still find it a bit rude to pick up on the spelling.
We know exactly what the OP means.

As for mental red pen Maw, we had to use green pens to correct. It was too upsetting for the weans to have work corrected in red pen.

I did not comment on what the OP wrote.

I commented on how Google translate had corrected what was posted by a business.

Your name was not mentioned, Stardreamer, please read carefully what I wrote and stop assuming every comment is about you. It was a general comment about picking up on others' spelling or grammar.

However, I am perplexed as to why you have to post about your foray into Google Translate.

The original OP is about the shortage of mustard, nothing else.

* oops I didn’t put that, put francaises

Agree with Germanshepherdsmum, pedant here too particularly with French, there’s also an error with franchises

hate english mustard but french mustard is a must with steak. hope there's some on the supermarket shelves.

La moutarde de Dijon de Waitrose est vraiment excellente --super forte. Mais ça c'est comme il faut!
En France j'achète le marque Amora Extra Fort. C'est pareil. Mais c'est pas disponible en ce moment. ?
For English mustard I used to buy a type called Gunpowder which really knocked your socks off. Essential for cold roast beef sandwiches. Also it too is no longer available,

Marydoll

The OP isn't sitting a French exam and despite being a linguist and life long pedant, I still find it a bit rude to pick up on the spelling.
We know exactly what the OP means.

As for mental red pen Maw, we had to use green pens to correct. It was too upsetting for the weans to have work corrected in red pen.

I did not comment on what the OP wrote.

I commented on how Google translate had corrected what was posted by a business.

There has been no French mustard In Morrisons locally for months…..
sacre bleu..!!!

MawtheMerrier

Joseanne

Germanshepherdsmum

I know I'm a total pedant but every time I see the heading I want to change the accent from acute to grave.

Calme-toi. Don't let la moutarde monter au nez!

Actually the gender is a far bigger mistake (feminine) but who cares? We all understand.

And the gender - you can take the teacher out of the school …..
That mental red pen!

Old teachers never retire they just keep on correcting.

The OP isn't sitting a French exam and despite being a linguist and life long pedant, I still find it a bit rude to pick up on the spelling.
We know exactly what the OP means.

As for mental red pen Maw, we had to use green pens to correct. It was too upsetting for the weans to have work corrected in red pen.

Copying the thread title from Gransnet daily into

translate.google.com/

then translating to English, then doing a "vice versa swap" Google translate corrects both mistakes,to give

Où est la moutarde ?

though for some unknown reason inserts a space before the question mark.

MtM - maybe only the women like it?
I know I do, and DH doesn’t. They have senape which I think is a bit different.

I think Coleman’s English mustard is pretty tame in the last few years, so I buy from other sources.

It's the Boch again!!!!

Merde! On fait quoi maintenant? ?