How to Be a French Gangster

October 28th
Alright,
So the other day I had to read this article on wine and milk for the french class I'm writing this blog for.
The article was interesting enough, fairly insightful....but then it mentioned something very strange.
That gangsters and hoodlums of France back in the day would drink a combination of milk and grenadine because it was....cool? A real mans drink?
Frankly I have no idea why you would drink it! I had certainly never heard of people doing such a thing before. Especially not in America, I couldn't possibly understand why the gangsters of France might find this tasty.
So I decided to facebook my friend Francois who lives in Languedoc-Roussillon, France to see if he had ever heard of it. Took a while for him to reply, as it usually does with young boys, but finally he responded with a very vague "yea i've heard of it" ....thanks child. That really clarified the issue at hand.
So I figured, if it's a thing why not try it out! Maybe it's actually pretty good. Not very threatening at all but maybe the gangsters just like the taste.

The least I can tell you is that it was very pretty. The french call it Bebe Rose (Pink Baby) and I wanted to make sure I was doing this right so I looked up my handy Easy French Recipes website that Julie and I go to if we're feeling exotic (link) On this subject it was not very helpful other than to explain that grenadine syrup is not actually pomegranate as they would like you to believe but a mixture of other red fruits, lemon juice and probably some chemicals.

So I mixed it all together, my milk turned pink (I know it looks very orange in the picture but it was pink in reality) ...and I drank it....

I honestly can't tell you what I think of it and I'm not really willing to make more to decide if it tastes alright or not. Part of me thinks it tastes like kids cough medicine or something but then it's almost sweet and tastes like a strawberry campino candy....

I don't know... but I think I also should have stirred some more because some lumps were definitely left in the bottom of the class.

...I won't recommend you to this drink. Gangster or no gangster, there's no real reason for this to exist and it's certainly not something I would want to drink more than one glass of per sitting.

So try it at your own risk.

Cecilly