An update on Loue chicken’s 50th anniversary.  All that good stuff they get fed has joined the list of ever-more-expensive food.  The price of grain has risen faster than little green sprouts.  Result?  Those yummy free-range birds have become rara avis on shopping lists thanks to new, higher prices just announced.  Not really the way consumers had planned on celebrating the anniversary. 

But it’s an ill-will and all that….  Higher fuel prices have driven many French shoppers home giving small shop keepers something to celebrate.  Instead of getting in their cars and heading to les grands surfaces or supermarkets on the edge of town, people are walking or biking downtown for their daily baguette and other supplies.   Small towns all over France are rejoicing.

Me, too.

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