When intelligent people put pen to paper in this forum, the result is often reports like this – a most satisfying and humorous read, and all this with less than ten photos so far. You and eightblack are two of the finest writers here and should you two ever collaborate on a book, I’ve no doubt it would be a best seller.

BTW, I knew "poulet" is chicken, but I wasn't familiar with “poulard”. I saw it on the Lufthansa menu and as it was corn fed, that ruled out plant matter. Sticking with the prefix “poul-“, I suspected it could be a lardy chicken. Imagine my surprise then when I looked it up and found out it was exactly that!