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As an aside, I don't know if this is still the case (Lughaidh can probably tell us), but back when I was taking French in high school, my teacher warned us to say "hot dog" when in France rather than translate it to "chien chaud" (pardon any wrong spelling...it's been many years since I studied French!) but to translate it in Quebec. From what she said, the French quite happily use the English term (and don't like the image the translated term conjures up), but in Quebec they translate anything that will stand still for it!
(I have to say, though, that this had me thinking: Who in the heck goes to France to eat hot dogs?)
That's right, in France people say hot-dog and in Québec they say "chien chaud". If you said "chien chaud" in France, people wouldn't understand what you're talking about, or if they understood they would laugh. By the way, people don't eat many hot-dogs in France, they either eat sandwiches (a half-baguette split with ham and butter inside etc) or MacD*nalds stuff but not many hot-dogs. Btw I never ate any hot-dog in my life
There are also "galette-saucisse" in Brittany (a pork sausage rolled in a crêpe).
In general, in France, people love using English terms because it makes you look cool and intellectual etc, they even make up fake English words
In Québec, official French translates everything, but actually people use loads of English words (more than in France) and many expressions are English translated word for word too (which almost doesn't happen in France).
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No wonder our little fella on the left is running away all the time if he's afraid he'll end up in a roll! 
