Brandy and truffles
November 10, 2009
Pineapple has some video footage from a 1968 1986 Australian documentary on Cambodia. The clip details the 1978 invasion by Vietnam.
Of course, we have Sihanouk near the end, talking bollocks … While the Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea was pounding the New Economic Zones with Chinese artillery guns, or launching barbaric raids from the Parrot’s Beak, Sihanouk in contrast to his fellow countrymen and women was sat in his gilded cage, complaining about not having enough brandy for his truffles.
Chocolate without brandy is so bourgeois. The little people just don’t understand.
CORRECTION: The original post incorrectly identified the year the documentary was released. It said 1968; it should have said 1986.
November 10, 2009 at 5:14 pm
“Chocolate without brandy is so bourgeois”
Only the most hairy-backed, uncivilsed American or Antipodean would confuse truffles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle_(fungi)) with truffles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_truffle).
Simply barbaric.
November 11, 2009 at 11:04 am
Man, I am out of the loop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle_(fungi) looks disgusting, by the way.
November 11, 2009 at 2:53 pm
And how did they make a documentary about the offensive 10 years before it happened?
November 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I think that is a typo, the documentary was in the 80’s and is available on bootleg DVD at Russian market in one of the stalls inside at the back that specialize in Khmer Rouge related DVDs.
November 14, 2009 at 1:39 am
Whether truffles, or truffles, Sihanouk loves to talk. Shit.