9) During a visit to Paris, guests in the hotel where Blue and her father were staying "were emptied out into Place Vendome like cream of potato soup from a can." (page 265) What made the author pick cream of potato? Why not clam chowder? Plain old vegetable? Any ideas? The choice jumped out at me and I'm still wondering.
I think the author is alluding to the classic french potato soups here (vichyssoise). Cream of potato soup from a can (famously american and campbells) would not fit in that category, just as the hotel guests do not fit in Paris. One thing is classically French. The other isn't. Were all or most of the guests American?
