Enjoy your humble pie, Monsieur ChiracGILLIAN GLOVER
SCOTSMAN RESTAURANT CRITICWhat nation could resist responding to your comments about the link between international diplomacy and cuisine? Here in the concrete-and-bracken landscape of stereotype Scotland, where many of the luxuries which ease your elegant French life were first invented (a list of the top 40 can be delivered to your suite for a mere ┚¬200), we were shocked to read the Liberation report that Lord Robertson had once “forced” you to eat “an unappetising Scottish delicacy”.
It seemed even more puzzling that your personal distaste for haggis should prove so globally influential; but your assurance that “from there sprang all our [France’s] difficulties with NATO” has been noted.
Albeit with a giggle. We are most of us blessed with elderly relatives who believe the world’s troubles stem from indigestion. However, your commentas to Gerhard Schröder and Vladimir Putin – that “the only thing the British have contributed to European agriculture is mad cow”, that Britain’s cuisine is “the second worst after Finland”, and that “one cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine” – have caused a bit of a stooshie.
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Chief Wiggum added these pithy words on 06 Jul 05 at 1:29 amWhat’s that old joke? – Hell has German police, French administrators and English cooks.
Saru added these pithy words on 06 Jul 05 at 2:28 pmDon’t know what time you posted this, but if you are making reference to France’s lost Olympic bid I must confess to having devilishly thought the same exact thing upon hearing the news this morning.
heirabbit added these pithy words on 06 Jul 05 at 3:57 pmNot talking about the most famous chefs here, but just my grandma from whales and my co-worker from Ireland etc., they do boil the snot out of everything and there are some famously bad dishes out there. On Japanese TV they show snippets of English TV programs on “how to make Japanese food”. The Japanese audience always reacts with huge gasps of disbelief. So in spite of the wonderful proclamations of the “revolution” over the last 20 years, I’ll still say the general situation isn’t all that great. I’ve also heard that French food isn’t all that awesome, if only because you can’t afford anything decent there anyway. People generally rave about Italian and Belgian food.
Cullen Masterson added these pithy words on 06 Jul 05 at 7:15 pmShouldn’t we be discussing comparative stadium food & beverages, here?
2 more jokes with Brit/French elements similar to Chief Wiggum’s:
Ideal domestic situation… English wife, French mistress, Chinese cook.
Ideal military situation… German staff. Israeli intelligence. British non-coms. Russian infantry. American supply. French cooks. The high ground. And the Italians for the enemy.
