Ortolan

[@CGAmn]

They didnt use white cloth to hide thei faces

[@hunterdude113]

They also didn’t eat them sizzling hot in a single mouthful.

[@kenthuang436]

Every time I hear about the ortolan, I think of the scene from American Dad where Francine drowns the bird.

[@baijulailaraaj666]

Eight days before he died, after a spectacular orgy of food, François Mitterrand, the French president, ordered a final course of ortolan, a tiny yellow-throated songbird no bigger than his thumb. The delicacy represented to him the soul of France.

[@lepetitchat123]

How sad. That this cruelty represents france

[@jjeanniton]

But this is polite society, and Gilberte's aunt is showing her the only proper way that polite society of the late 19th century would accept!

[@Carpe_Diem_XCIII]

jjeanniton what movie is this

[@williamstolley2165]

Songs include: title, Thank heaven for little girls, the night they invented champagne, I'm glad I'm not young, I remember it well, and It's a bore.

[@williamstolley2165]

From which film is this scene taken? Gigi, Best Picture of the Year 1958, written for the screen by Lerner and Lowe, later adapted to a Broadway show (usually the reverse)

[@rod5330]

I'd rather have popeyes chicken.

[@Anti-FreedomD.P.R.ofSouthKorea]

popeyes is good

[@dragondancer1814]

Popeyes is the BEST, and their biscuits are sheer heaven!

[@agenttheater5]

I will never eat Ortolans because I find it cruel what they do to them, though I'll admit Alicia has a point when she says that it's better to eat them properly than go at them like cannibals (same with any food I imagine) and with what she said about bad table manners.

[@ZTM432]

thats a cuntish comment if I ever saw one

[@rivafussball6719]

Don't eat with knife & fork, eat in one go hence the napkin across face

[@zakzyklon]

thats not how u eat an ortolan

[@saeidwatcher]

exactly

[@pt109tattoo6]

Boy u never ate one shut yo punjabi something Dubai possibly ass up

[@theblackcahoosh]

Nom... Nom... NOM!

[@trevorjohnson5213]

Shes so beautiful

[@mojosbigsticks]

I've eaten quail that way.

[@makidude]

which movie is this from

[@wel7652]

Gigi

[@mj4lyfe2009]

What film is this from?

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

Gigi 1958 film

[@mj4lyfe2009]

obsolete professor Thank you x

[@emeff530]

Oh no no no!!! WRONGGG!!!!

[@hunterdude113]

Gigi

[@nerdburger234]

Didn't cover their faces to hide the sin from god…

[@Emanixoxo]

what movie is this from?

[@Filmfood22]

Gigi (1958) See for more info my website: www.filmfood.nl/search/label/Ortolan

[@wel7652]

Gigi starring Leslie Caron

[@SGKSK]

禾花雀

[@say-cred]

YUM!

[@rivafussball6719]

Not how you eat Ortolun

[@generalrodcocker1018]

this is not how to eat ortolan

[@fenriz218]

It's a shame that Ortolan are so rare these days (and expensive). The best and most classical methods does take some time. Pluck the ortolans eyes out, and lock it up in a box filled with millet, figs and grapes (purple, not white). When it reaches about four times the size, drown the bird in Armagnac, plug all the feathers and set fire to it in a pan. Within a few minutes (about 8) it is done. It is generally eaten whole, though most usually bite the head off first. I can only recommend it to lovers of good food, though vegetarians should better stick with eating tofu and grass.

[@harrywarraich555]

No more wrong than beef? We dont pluck the cows eyes out when they are still alive.

[@DavidHKMusic]

no doubt a food of the cruel decadent rich

[@solwen]

I'v never heard anything about plucking their eyes and i live in southern France where ortolan are (well , were) a tradition

[@es6499]

You don't have to pluck the eyes out if you keep the bird in a dark cloth covered cage -- you see, the birds usually feed at night, so if they think it's night by being inside a dark cage, they gorge themselves. Millet, oats, and figs are best; only hacks use black grapes.

[@JasonX00]

Lovers of "good food"?