The French (again)

[JammyJim]

Chirac jokes about British food

The three leaders seemed to enjoy themselves in Kaliningrad
French President Jacques Chirac is reported to have cracked jokes about British food at a meeting with the German and Russian leaders.
French newspaper Liberation says Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin laughed and joined in the banter.

"One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad," it quotes Mr Chirac as saying, within earshot of reporters.

A French government spokesman declined to comment on the report, which comes days before the G8 summit in Scotland.

One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad

Jacques Chirac
The three men met on Sunday for celebrations to mark the 750th anniversary of the founding of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Koenigsberg, an exclave of Russia surrounded by Poland and Lithuania.

"The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease," Mr Chirac said, according to the newspaper's report.

"After Finland, it is the country with the worst food."

Problems with Nato

Mr Chirac is also reported to have reminisced about an occasion when Lord George Robertson, the former Secretary General of Nato, had made him try a Scottish dish.

"That is where our difficulties with Nato come from," he said.

The Taste of Scotland is always to be enjoyed at the Gleneagles Hotel

Gleneagles Hotel website
The comments come as France and the UK compete to hold the Olympic games in 2012, and are at loggerheads over the EU budget.

On Wednesday Mr Chirac will be flying to Gleneagles for a dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth II to open the G8 summit.

The menu has not been published, but most of the food, provided by the Gleneagles hotel, will be locally sourced.

"The Taste of Scotland is always to be enjoyed at the Gleneagles Hotel, from morning kippers or a fresh egg from a nearby farmhouse; scones and cream or Dundee cake for afternoon tea in The Bar to Angus beef, Scottish salmon, venison or Highland grouse for dinner," the hotel's website says.

It adds that the hotel's kitchens "benefit from the finest, freshest produce available from Scotland's larder, and from specialist suppliers around the world".

Hamburgers OK

US President George W Bush said in an interview with the Times newspaper that he would not eat haggis at the summit, or wear a kilt.

Liberation says Mr Putin tried to egg Mr Chirac on at the Kaliningrad meeting, asking him what he thought of hamburgers.

Mr Chirac replied that hamburgers were far preferable to British food.

In an interview with Time magazine two years ago, he said he had been a fan of America since spending a summer at Harvard University in 1953, and that he loved "junk food".

France came close to being fined in 2002, for refusing to lift a ban on British beef, in the wake of the BSE crisis.

The European Union issued a worldwide ban on British beef exports in 1996, but lifted it in 1999.

Why does this make me hate that arrogant twat of a man Chirac even more....




ps. to sum it up Chirac said british food is crap and you cant trust anyone who eats crap food. Even tho he himself loves junk food like mcdonalds (lol fatty). Plus hes french for christ sake.

[the_dastardley_chihuahua]

i like chirac, he seems to enjoy pissing on blair's bonfire

[Radical Edward]

Originally Posted by JammyJim

Why does this make me hate that arrogant twat of a man Chirac even more....




ps. to sum it up Chirac said british food is crap and you cant trust anyone who eats crap food. Even tho he himself loves junk food like mcdonalds (lol fatty). Plus hes french for christ sake.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4649007.stm

it'S like sunday8pm, but without acknowledging the BBC. I'd report the post for plagarism but well, you're JammyJim.

anyways, I don't know what Schroeder thinks he is laughing about, German food is bloody awful, and as for Putin well I suppose he doesn't know what food tastes like since he probably washes it all down with antifreeze anyway

[wu_trax]

well, british food doesnt exactly have the best reputation in the world, but aqnyway, id rather trust blair than that annoying frenchman.

[Deepflow]

who gives a shit?

if you ask me we should just rise above his petty namecalling. We are British after all. All that is required is that we look upon Chiraq with complete disdain until he crawls into a hole and dies. easy.

[Dead_Meat]

I say when the Aliens invade and go after France, and all the French are running through the Channel Tunnel, we block it with a huge door with

THIRD TIME UNLUCKY FOR SOME MR FROG-MAN, NOW **** OFF BACK TO PARIS

written on it.

[Deffeh]

British food is crap, whats the problem?

For god sake, we constantly vote "Fish and chips" as the nations favourite meal. The most bland, fatty, waste of time food there ever has been

[Marilyn Manson]

"One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad," it quotes Mr Chirac as saying, within earshot of reporters.

"One cannot trust someone who is a crook, a political failure, and a has-been.", said Marilyn Manson, within earshot of GD.

[pyirt]

Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue

There's a fair chance he will be eating prison food when he stops being president anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt...e_Paris_region
Lets hope he does n`t run for a third term, or is defeated.

[edmoo]

You have to admit that British cuisine is notably bland. The best food that brittan has coined is haggis, imho.

[Sarina_Joy]

I dislike haggis. Black pudding is the way to go.

[Yahwe]

let's see the quality of french produce after we stop subsidising their farms.

[Weeks]

Blair should have laughed it off. It'd be the only wise thing to put, with a little bit of smugness in his laugher.

In his head he'd be saying to himself: 'Our food is crap, but at least we can defend outself and not get invaided, twice, and have to get bailed out by a country we despise.' Obviously he wouldn't say it else i'd make him look like a child as well.

[Weeks]

Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue

There's a fair chance he will be eating prison food when he stops being president anyway.

Quoted for truth. Blair should have, however, said that. It would have brought the house down.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by edmoo

You have to admit that British cuisine is notably bland.

Most French cuisine is bland.

[Dante Hicks]

Aren't a good proportion of the "world's best restaurants" in Britain?

Anyway, I like "English" food. If we're defining that as traditional-esque foods like Roast Beef, fish and chips, stews, hot-pot, shepherds pie, pie and mash, black pudding, etc, etc. I'm not sure how many of these things are actually English though.

[Yahwe]

not to mention the almost singular usage of game in british cusine and things like kegeree and buttered kippers. scones and clotted cream

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

hot-pot.

A significant amount of traditional French cuisine is to put a load of meat and vegetables in a pot and let it stew for a week. Cassoulet, for example.

[dda]

Originally Posted by JammyJim

Why does this make me hate that arrogant twat of a man Chirac even more....




ps. Plus hes french for christ sake.

How much do you need? This is enough for me.

[Weeks]

Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

Most French cuisine is bland.

I like French cuisine, I prefer Spanish though. British cuisine can be ok, but a lot of it is pretty bad in comparison.

The thing is, it just makes the French look petty constantly making wise-cracks. I had to endure plenty of them in France. As long as you don't get caught up in it you take the moral higher ground, which is were it's all at these days.

[djbass]

Originally Posted by the_dastardley_chihuahua

i like chirac, he seems to enjoy pissing on blair's bonfire

Ditto

Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

Most French cuisine is bland.

You kidding me? They have some of the most richest tasting food in the world! Just about every meal & desert they have is overloaded with flavour.

However, they are rated as the worst coffee makers in the world.

[Texan]

I had fish and chips once at an Irish pub in Germany. Does that qualify me to judge English food?

[JammyJim]

no

[s|k]

What is some specifically British food? I don't know of anything that is distinctly UK.

[Yahwe]

jugged hare

[s|k]

Originally Posted by Yahwe

jugged hare

I ate rabbit in Germany. It's pretty decent. I don't know what 'jugged' means, however.

[Nusselt]

Fish and chips (with pickled onion) is ace, as is chicken tikka masala.

I believe The fat duck was voted best restaurant in the world?

[djbass]

Bangers & Mash, Generally any sort of roast meat & vegetables served with Yorkshire pudding, Bubble and Squeak. They're also big into bakery, like scones & sweet buns etc.


Heh, I also found a dish appropriately named for a lot of the UK GD'ers, Faggots \o/

[Nusselt]

btw whats so bad about finnish food? didn't bersulsconi also slam them?

[Marilyn Manson]

I had sausages in mash with peas in a red wine and onion gravy last week. In Sunderland.

God help me, but I think it was the best thing I've tasted all year. *



















































*No cock jokes please.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by Nusselt

btw whats so bad about finnish food?

Does Finland even have a culture, be it culinary or otherwise?

[Yahwe]

Originally Posted by Nusselt

btw whats so bad about finnish food? didn't bersulsconi also slam them?

there's only so much you can do with herring

[Yahwe]

Originally Posted by djbass

Bangers & Mash, Generally any sort of roast meat & vegetables served with Yorkshire pudding, Bubble and Squeak. They're also big into bakery, like scones & sweet buns etc.


Heh, I also found a dish appropriately named for a lot of the UK GD'ers, Faggots \o/

see this is the root of the 'britain has bad food' myth.

France is judged by the delicate sauces and cordon bleu schools of development which was eaten exclusively by the very rich. ie. when we think of french food we think of the menu's of the palaces.

England is judged on the peasent food of the industrial north during the poverty and depredation of the groeth of industry.

A true comparison; indeed a true critique of english food would assess the british dishes which were served to our upper classes. The stapple diet of the country houses which (with modern twists) is now what one sees prolifically in restaurants such as the fat duck or at claridges.

France is basically saying "compared to your dock worker our king had much better food"

Mind you low tactics and dirty play are what we've come to expect from the French

[Phang]

Originally Posted by djbass

Heh, I also found a dish appropriately named for a lot of the UK GD'ers, Faggots \o/

today, djbass discovers that sometimes words have origins!

[djbass]

Originally Posted by Phang

today, djbass discovers that sometimes words have origins!

No dear.. that would be 'a bundle of sticks'

[Phang]

Originally Posted by djbass

No dear.. that would be 'a bundle of sticks'

yes. which was also where the name of the recipe comes from, in the context of being made from leftovers.

[SilverSmoke]

I've visited (South) France on a very regular base for about two years, I've had all kinds of different food there but I have to say that it is indeed bland, it all tend to taste the same. Pretty boring if you ask me. Frogs are surprisingly good though and ofcourse their cheese is fabulous and I like their olives and liver pates.

[dda]

Originally Posted by djbass

Bangers & Mash, Generally any sort of roast meat & vegetables served with Yorkshire pudding, Bubble and Squeak. They're also big into bakery, like scones & sweet buns etc.


Heh, I also found a dish appropriately named for a lot of the UK GD'ers, Faggots \o/

I was in a book store and came across a volume on English navy dishes of the 18th-19th century. When I opened the book the dish I had tulrned to was called spotted dick. I closed the book and left the book store.

[s|k]

Originally Posted by dda

I was in a book store and came across a volume on English navy dishes of the 18th-19th century. When I opened the book the dish I had tulrned to was called spotted dick. I closed the book and left the book store.

A dish of spotted dick you say, eh. That's comedy gold. But what is it really?

[Yahwe]

it's a pudding

[dda]

It is a desert. The cook book was based on dishes mentioned in the Jack Aubrey series of books by Patrick O'Brien.

[Radical Edward]

Originally Posted by dda

I was in a book store and came across a volume on English navy dishes of the 18th-19th century. When I opened the book the dish I had tulrned to was called spotted dick. I closed the book and left the book store.

it's one of those desserts the British cook in order to confuse and upset foreigners. we do the same with mice pies too, which contains the humerously named "mincemeat" which has absolutely no meat in it. I like making those when vegetarians come round to see their horror when I name the main ingredient. I'm always good enough to tell them it just consists of fruit and lots of sherry afterwards.

[KoeN]

Originally Posted by Yahwe

3. Main Course

A nice Roast Chicken.

i'm with Chirac on this one. anyone who dares to come up with chicken as 'main course' for a classy dinner clearly doesn't have any taste at all.

[Radical Edward]

Originally Posted by KoeN

i'm with Chirac on this one. anyone who dares to come up with chicken as 'main course' for a classy dinner clearly doesn't have any taste at all.

worthy of a lol.

[furball]

Originally Posted by KoeN

i'm with Chirac on this one. anyone who dares to come up with chicken as 'main course' for a classy dinner clearly doesn't have any taste at all.

Then clearly you've never eaten a decent roast chicken. It's like expecting a Dutch meal to taste the same over here - it won't.

[max_vix]

chirac is a turd licker 'par excellance', engaging in the time honoured fashion of french politicians, when things are shit at home , start ripping into the british, shows what an out of touch smegmuncher he is

Besides what do they eat? Frogs legs, snails and horse meat. That aint exactly better then ours is it?

[KoeN]

Originally Posted by furball

Then clearly you've never eaten a decent roast chicken. It's like expecting a Dutch meal to taste the same over here - it won't.

with 'taste' in this context i didn't mean what chicken itself tastes like, but that food you can buy at a cafetaria shouldn't be part of a classy dinner to begin with.

chicken and caviar is no combination. in fact all seafood can't be mixed with meat. but chicken (the cheapest meat) after caviar (exclusive, expensive) in one meal is probably the worst combination i've ever heard of.

[Sarina_Joy]

I have never been to a 'cafateria' where you can buy roast chicken with all the trimmings.

And are you seriously suggesting that you can't have a fish starter and a poultry main. Don't be retarded KoeN.

[KoeN]

Originally Posted by Sarina_Joy

And are you seriously suggesting that you can't have a fish starter and a poultry main. Don't be retarded KoeN.

it's certainly not the way it should be done.

[furball]

Starter:
Smoked salmon

Main course:
Roast chicken with trimmings

Desert:
Cheese, or of choosing.

You sure, KoeN?