Brilliant French diplomacy strikes again!

[mrmitchell]

Originally posted by Theben
Potato Salad -
Baked Beans -
Hot Dogs -
Pickles -
Cole Slaw -
Hamburgers

Fixed.

Potato salad
Baked beans
Pickles
Cole Slaw
Hamburgers

Fixed where you were wrong, buddy.

[pchang]

For lunch today I had:

grilled artichokes
grilled asparagus
grilled Korean BBQ ribs
grilled corn
mixed green salad

[Ted Striker]

I'm eating right now and all this talk is STILL making me hungry.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Potato Salad -
Baked Beans -
Hot Dogs -
Ice Cream Sodas -
Pickles -
Cole Slaw -
Macaroni Salad - :q"
Hamburgers

OMG! Yur all wrong! Fixed.

[Saras]

Originally posted by pchang
For lunch today I had:

grilled artichokes
grilled asparagus
grilled Korean BBQ ribs
grilled corn
mixed green salad

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Spiffor


I must say that Chirac really is brilliant. He's winning the hearts and minds of people from across the world

By demonstrating he has neither ?


At least the Montgolfier Brothers used hot air for floating balloons, not as means of warming their own heads.

I think he's in a competition with de Gaulle and Edith Cresson, to demonstrate how many people a French leader can insult without actually contributing anything themselves to the world at large.

Boulestin and Careme would have known what to say to such an ignoramus about British food:

" I had meals in all sorts of places, hotels, restaurants, tea shops and taverns. The food struck me as good when English, indifferent when pretending to be French. But I made two discoveries: mint sauce and Indian curry.

[....] After a perfect fortnight I returned to Paris full of intense and confused memories, a tin of curry powder, hundreds of cigarettes, a marvellous greenish-brown rainproof, several ties and the feeling that I must learn English and come again every season.

At St. Aulaye in September I tried to make my father appreciate the charms of London and English cooking. Marvellous steaks and chops, I said, and the grill shining, sparkling behind a glass screen. "

X. M. Boulestin: 'Myself, My Two Countries' 1936


Careme, of course, in his 'Art of French Cookery in the 19th Century' included many recipes for dishes cooked a l'anglaise , including sweetbreads.


French cookery- pah! It's been downhill all the way since the Medicis last improved it.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by molly bloom
I think he's in a competition with de Gaulle and Edith Cresson, to demonstrate how many people a French leader can insult without actually contributing anything themselves to the world at large.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, the French think they are 'it' when it comes to food. We all know they are not a spot on the Italians

[techumseh]

Anyone got some creative lines?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Dutch kool sla

European pickled baby cucumbers

Italian maccheroni

Russian potato salad - Kartophelny Salat Po-Russki

Chinese/Mongol Ice Cream


Thoroughly American.

Name the old world country where youd get all those together. Also, did the Chinese have Chocolate ice cream? Cones?

I mean to show brit cuisine, you specify the food in great detail, but shows that American food is all borrowed by citing broad types. Im sure if we had a true American foodie here he could give us examples of more specific American foods - i am not such a foodie, however.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by techumseh
Anyone got some creative lines?

Creative? No. Just the obligatory I'm afraid.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Yeah, the French think they are 'it' when it comes to food. We all know they are not a spot on the Italians

[Spiffor]

While I acknowledge that the Italians are excellent cooks, they don't come close to French ones.

But I don't hold it against the rosbif (PH) and the colonial (Ogie), for the Italians are indeed more generous than ourselves: we keep the best to ourselves, we export only the rest.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, you keep the snails and the frogs and anything else that has been produced by sheer sadism and brutality

[Provost Harrison]

Only a French mind could have figured out Foie Gras. You can't win wars, so you torture defenceless animals