[LM24] Reminders Of Le Mans

[GT6]

Today while looking for bargains in the sales I was in the food hall of M & S when I found pork Rillette, it brought a smile to my face and as it was reduced a smile to my pocket to, I brought some nice bread and rather than cold turkey enjoyed a meal of something I have only ever had in le mans, it was delicious and brought back memories of the bagettes served around the circuit during the race. Does anyone else have these strange but wonderful reminders happen to them.

[Steptoe]

Yep
Every time skiing in the French Alps and you find someone selling Grand Marnier Crepes. It always reminds me of the village and then I have to buy one.

[The Badger]

Le Mans is a special place ..... Ive found some excellant restuarants there over the years .



Sadly one of best chinese places is now a suchi bar !!! ....

The french bread is like nowhere else ..... egg mayonaise is great too . Lots to think about here !!!

[isynge]

Rilettes always do it - although to be honest the meme they evoke is more redolent of winter business trips out to that part of the world.

Perhaps bizarrely, around Christmas when I'm ferreting around in the loft pulling down various decorations etc and I spot bits and pieces like the tent and camp stove really bring things to mind - not least because it reminds me I really should consolidate where all that sort of thing lives to reduce blood pressure the night before departure in June. I've got six months - who's willing to bet there's still a mad chase around trying to find things pre leaving?

[Blue Rondeau]

Calvados. Like it, but generally only have it at Le Mans - pick up a bottle of it at Carrefour and enjoy it on the what always seem to be cold Saturday nights.

Whatever makes it home will sometimes come out and then straightaway it's back to Le Mans and almost expecting to hear a loud Corvette engine to go with the taste...

[racerkeke]

For me it's shampoo. Weird, I know, but for some reason I always run out of shampoo at Le Mans and have to buy a bottle of Le Petit Marseillais at the Carrefour. So when I get home I ration it out...

And every time I use it I am transported back to les douches at Karting Nord. Trying to keep my clothes dry on the hook while punching the button on the shower to keep the spray going long enough to rinse my hair. Remembering to grab my pass and lanyard off the hook when I leave. Remembering that a shower at Le Mans is like heaven...

keke

[GT6]

well I might have expected grand marnier crepes but shampoo now that is different

[vincegail]

Besides the pretty obvious The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (great song btw, and always puts a smile on my face) there seem to be other songs that get played a lot/most often every year at Radio Le Mans.
Just heard this one on the radio, and immediately thought back at some grassy field over in France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJLDjYRfx3g

[Aysedasi]

I'm one of the few that hate rillette....

I think of Le Mans any time I smell a BBQ........

[rdjones]

Originally Posted by vincegail

Besides the pretty obvious The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (great song btw, and always puts a smile on my face) there seem to be other songs that get played a lot/most often every year at Radio Le Mans.
Just heard this one on the radio, and immediately thought back at some grassy field over in France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJLDjYRfx3g

That track also makes me think of Le Mans too, mainly due to the fact it was the intro to rather naff Le Mans game on the original Playstation.

[Mal]

I think of Le Mans every morning when I get dressed - I go to my wardrobe and see the stack of Le Mans T Shirts

[vincegail]

Originally Posted by rdjones

That track also makes me think of Le Mans too, mainly due to the fact it was the intro to rather naff Le Mans game on the original Playstation.

Completely forgot about that game! I thought it was rather ok though, in its time.

[Truckosaurus]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I'm one of the few that hate rillette....

Poor Form.

On the subject of rillettes, in my local Lidl supermarket they had jars of "coarse pork pate" as part of their Christmas range, it was a sort of Rillette Lite and perfectly passable along with some stinky cheese and a glass of the finest wines available to humanity.

I also caught some dreadful cooking programme on the television over the festive period that featured merguez sausages as if they were the most exotic thing ever not the staple of a Le Mans BBQ.

Finally, the turning of the calendar from 31/12/12 to 01/01/13 sees my mental countdown switch from "time since the last Le Mans" to "time until the next Le Mans".

[CTD]

Well, as I have only been to Le Mans once, I haven't managed to produce such clear reminders of the track itself.
However, as you who participate in the chat knows, Nuggets has been a Must have when ever i watched Le Mans at home. Therefor when ever I'm lazy and just buy nuggets, I think of Le Mans

[Gingers4Justice]

Originally Posted by vincegail

Besides the pretty obvious The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (great song btw, and always puts a smile on my face) there seem to be other songs that get played a lot/most often every year at Radio Le Mans.
Just heard this one on the radio, and immediately thought back at some grassy field over in France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJLDjYRfx3g

Funny how Le Mans and music goes so well together!

This little number always reminds me of Le Mans. A combination of listening to it during the week, and Jonny Mowlem saying it was one of the tracks he relaxes too out of the cockpit on Radio Le Mans whilst we were stuck in a typical Friday traffic jam between the two chicanes on the Mulsanne straight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mzklb9nkXM

[Gingers4Justice]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I'm one of the few that hate rillette....

I think of Le Mans any time I smell a BBQ........

Agree with this too. For me at Le Mans, it's normally a Super U sausage variety pack on the barbie for beakfast, lunch and tea. My first one of the week is usually accompanied by the first practice session of the support race in the background.

When I have barbies at home for a few weeks after, what I first think is a Group C car blasting around the Porsche curves is infact a Kawasaki on the A14

Another two reminders for me are dusty paths and the smell of dying grass.

[Mike E]

'dusty paths and the smell of dying grass'

Cheer up, mate!

[Aysedasi]

It all sounds a bit too Joni Mitchell really..........

[GT6]

hey this is meant to be about good reminders not depressing things

[Aysedasi]

Quite right Simon - well said! Let's have some uplifting reminders!

[CTD]

Whenever I use my camera, I'm reminded of Le Mans, and the fact that everything is worth taking a picture of

[Gingers4Justice]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Quite right Simon - well said! Let's have some uplifting reminders!

That is a good reminder! Well, it is for me anyway.

The smell of browning grass touches my nose and I'm right back at Le Mans, the best place on earth.

[GT6]

Can't say I have ever noticed the smell of browning grass, grass usually means hayfever to me and then i can't smell much. A good few years ago I remember it being so hot that the tinder dry grass would catch fire in the campsites boy that did smell

[Aysedasi]

Better be careful then - that's what the weather's gonna be like this year!

[Victor_RO]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Better be careful then - that's what the weather's gonna be like this year!

It's on the shortest night of the year anyway.