You have to wonder how they discovered they could eat fungus or even snails? Did the french follow animals around to see what they eat?
Hunting for truffles? This pig joined in the fun at a recent fungi foray.
Posted on 07/06/2005 1:58:38 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
LONDON -- French President Jacques Chirac, already in a pot of British hot water, was accused yesterday of "a tasteless blunder" by opening a "cheap and thoroughly schoolboyish attack" on British food, calling it the second-worst in the world, behind only Finland's. He even took a shot at haggis, the most famous Scottish dish, on the eve of the Group of Eight summit at Gleneagles, the Scottish resort. As Mr. Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin traded belly laughs at a cafe in the Russian city of Kaliningrad -- where they met to mark the city's 750th anniversary -- Mr. Chirac said, "the only thing [the British] have given European agriculture is the mad cow." "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that," he said of the British. "After Finland, it's the country with the worst food." At that point, Mr. Putin suggested that American hamburgers might rank the worst of bad food. "No, no," Mr. Chirac replied, "the hamburgers -- that's nothing in comparison." The French president recalled how former British Defense Secretary George Robertson, a Scotsman who later became NATO secretary-general, once offered him an "unappetizing" Scottish dish -- apparently haggis, a concoction of minced heart, lungs and liver boiled in a sheep's stomach.
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Chirac is a mad frog. More dangerous than a herd of mad cows.
I have never understood what the French think is so great about eating fungus and frogs – and drowning everything in sauce.
Chirac is a mad steer.
Today, for lunch, I am going to eat a great big AMERICAN hamburger, just before I shout foch y'mob eastward.
You have to wonder how they discovered they could eat fungus or even snails? Did the french follow animals around to see what they eat?
Hunting for truffles? This pig joined in the fun at a recent fungi foray.
They must have been mighty desperate.
Chirac is just saying anything to take the spotlight off him so folks don't look at his record. And as for russia, if I were a third world country full of drunks I wouldn't be throwing stones.
Also there france, how's that American boycott working for you buttheads there? You wine makers flushing your drink into a toilet where it belongs? You having trouble feeding your children? If so Good.
To be fair, I did enjoy the chow in France, especially the bread and coffee (and one amazing omelet in Mont. St. Michel) but I think England gets a bad rap.
I've spent a great deal of time in the UK, living in London as a student and returning every year for a week of beer and shopping ever since.
Roasted dinner, pork pies, BEER, trifles, chips and bread pudding with hard sauce. Traditional English food rocks. Beer. Beer. Beer.
Whats amazing to me is that Chirac is the "center right " politician in Frogland. What would a radical leftist behave like over there?
English is much closer to my culinary likes.
He said this before the Olympic vote. There were two Fins on the voting board. Payback is a bitch.
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