Posted on 07/05/2005 6:31:59 AM PDT by advance_copy
LONDON (AFP) - British newspapers have condemned French President Jacques Chirac as a "nasty, petty racist creep" and someone who "has lost his marbles" amid reports he scoffed at British food.
Chirac reportedly said British cuisine was the worst in the world after Finland's and joked "the only thing they have done for European agriculture is 'mad cow'" at a French-German-Russian summit Sunday in Russia.
The Daily Telegraph ran an editorial Tuesday under the headline: "Tut, tut, Mr Chirac.
"Jacques Chirac, the embattled president of France, seems to have gone a little off his rocker," it said.
Chirac's reported comments, which French officials have not denied, come at a time when he is embroiled in a battle with Britain over the European Union budget and is troubled at home over the rejection of the EU constitution.
It said Chirac "seems to have forgotten all his history," adding that Britain was the country that first developed modern farming methods such as the drainage of wetlands and crop rotation.
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Well...Britrish food by itself isn't all that great BUT I don't get French food either. Who wants to eat cream sauce and frogs legs? Not me.
And this coming from a man who has admitted he loves McDonald's food.
This young man can cook for me anytime he wants to.....
I can't help but wonder if Shroder and Putin were both thinking something along the lines of "This silly man thinks that French garbage is any better than that English garbage". German and Russian food not being very similar.
ping
HUMAN WASTE PUT IN COW FEED
February 9, 2002
The Express
p. 24
Paul Broster
A French court heard yesterday that human excrement and urine from staff toilets was mixed deliberately with 'high BSE risk' carcasses to produce animal feed in France, which was then eaten by French cows, pigs and chicken - some of which ended up on British dining tables. Factory boss Jean-Yves Cogrel was quoted as claiming the 'waste not, want not' policy was environmentally friendly. The story explains that a court in Quimper, Brittany, heard how the waste was pumped from toilet cess pits into the feed-making process for three years. Liquid from rotting animal corpses, including domestic cats and dogs, also found its way into the mixture. Mr Cogrel escaped with an GBP 11,000 fine and was allowed to continue trading. The UK Agricultural Trade Supply Association, which represents animal feed producers, was cited as saying it was staggered the factory was allowed to stay open. The horror story emerged on the same day France said it will continue its illegal ban on British beef imports for at least another six months, claiming UK testing for mad cow disease is inadequate.
Chirac's megalomania is nothing new, it's just the Brit ox being gored this time, nice of the Brit tabloids to notice.
LE WORM
Almost as good as watching Monty Python reruns!
Chirac is a creepy liar.
In the 19th century, we would have sent a gunboat to take a few more of their colonies away.
I say we take Guadeloupe and Reunion islands.
Regards, Ivan
Despite French denials that their cows are fed on human excrement--"No cow in the world would eat sewage," a French agriculture official protested Tuesday to the Independent of London--this is the aspect of the dispute that has captured the imagination of the British press. The symbol of the Daily Mail's campaign for a British consumers' boycott of French food is a drawing of a cow with a beret on its head and a roll of toilet paper hanging on a chain from its neck. "England expects every shopper to do their duty," the paper proclaimed Wednesday on its front page--evoking Adm. Horatio Nelson's signal to the British fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, "England expects that every man will do his duty"--but also reflecting the decline in grammatical standards in England over the past 200 years. (Another Nelson exhortation to his sailors--"You must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil"--was not quoted anywhere, but was being widely followed in the spirit.)
President Bush absolutely must compliment the food, and emphatically so, while he is in the U.K. this week. No mention of the controversy, just say how much he enjoyed the food. It would be pluck of the highest order.
French President Jacques Chirac vainly struggles to find an issue that will make him what....Relevant?
TILT....Sorry Jacques
I agree that Chirac is an idiot, but Her Majesy's subjects need a dictionary: A white guy making fun of another white guy's food does not have anything to do with racism.
LOL!
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