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This is probably intended as a reference to Asterix
and the Banquet, why else would Obelix mention
an event that the reader isn't familiar with?
If it is intended as a reference to Banquet,
as the reader can only assume it is, it is an incorrect
reference. The Gauls were to busy loosing the Romans
in the maze of streets in Lugdunum to go to a restaurant.
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Marie-Céline, a French reader of the Asterix
books, has kindly sent in this explanation:
"My opinion is that it is just a joke
of Goscinny to criticize a very french attitude : when a frenchman
(or woman) is outside his country, he's always complaining
about food. He doesn't want to admit that there could be an
other good food than his national food so he always has nostalgic
memories of good restaurant near Paris/Marseille/ Lyon....
I had in my own experience many examples
of this "Obelix" attitude : during meals with other
Frenchpeople in the USA, we talked for hours of good restaurants
in Paris ...I know it sounds ridiculous but it's beyond our
control.
There's an other comics in France (Les
bidochons) where the hero is in the restaurant of a holiday
resort in Brittany and he's talking a bout a "good restaurant
in the National road 20 in Toulouse"....
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