When meeting Aurore after work today, we decided to take a beer on the restaurant Duplex in La Châtre.This because it was a lovely day and because we were worth it!
At Duplex we met Marie - who works there and a woman Aurore has known for many years.
She is a cultural, well-read and humurous person .
More uncommon for a French woman (or man) - is that she loves the Swedish dish Surströmming, in English known as fermented Herring or fermented Baltic Herring (French: petit 'hareng [de la Baltique] fermenté).
Aurore likes it and we ate it in 2009 but before that I haven't eaten it since 1969!
There are not many foreigner - or Swedes - who like this dish as the odour is quite intensive - it smells corpse!
We had a nice chat with Marie - as always - and we've decided to meet for a barbecue later on this spring, not eating surströmming however.
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