Enfant Gâté

DESCRIPTION: French dialog between mother and spoiled child. "Enfant gâté veux-tu du pâté? Non ma mère il est trop salé! Veux-tu du rôti? Non ma mère il est drop cuit!" The mother asks if the child wants pie or meat; the child refuses; it tastes bad/is badly cooked
AUTHOR: (credited to Ernest Lavisse by non-scholarly Internet sources)
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: mother children food rejection foreignlanguage
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 118-119, "Enfant gâté" (1 short text)
File: KSUC118E

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