québécois identity, the separatist movement, all this, but i have to get right to the pressing matter of the day: pastagate. [ laughter ] >> patrick: pastagate. what do you want to know about pastagate? >> anthony: for those not up on current quebec politics, pastagate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french laws because they used the word "pasta," which is italian. this is -- >> patrick: okay, stop apologizing, okay? [ laughter ] >> anthony: don't get me wrong. my last name is bourdain. i lean french, hard. i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> patrick: you don't think it's preposterous? >> anthony: i do not think it's preposterous. but here we have a situation. [ laughter ] >> patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this -- this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be