"It's a little bit of chicken or egg," Mr. Weaber said.
But for near term, Touré said, the cultural upbringing of his children boils down to "a little bit of chicken, a little bit of hummus".
In practice, Mr Hollande is more likely to try to seek a succession of smaller deals, each with a bit of chicken and a bit of egg, and avoid a revision of the treaties for as long as possible.
Here, the hashtag is like a bit of chicken wire between what you are consciously and deliberately saying, and what just happened to slip out, especially useful when you are making a comment and pretending that you absolutely, positively will not name names, and then, whoops, it just came tumbling out.
In Zambia, an average person living in such dire poverty might be able to afford, on a given day, two or three plates of cornmeal porridge, a tomato, a mango, a spoonful each of oil and sugar, a bit of chicken or fish, maybe a handful of nuts.
Meat is a catch-all category, with a bit of chicken, a bit of beef, Peking duck and easily one of the best pork shoulders in recent memory, a steamed and then slow-braised, fat-topped mound of succulent meat that shreds at the touch of your chopsticks and is flavored with star anise, cinnamon, ginger and wine, along with its sauce.
"It's a bit of chicken-and-an-egg problem," he said in a thick Russian accent.
Other critics weren't as impressed with Daniels' crazy-sounding bit of chicken-fried pulp.
A creamy chicken soup, another appetizer, was deeply flavored and had the bonus of tender bits of chicken and tomatoes.
Just as tasty was avgolemono soup, a delicate broth thickened with egg yolk, spiked with fresh lemon and little bits of chicken.
