Brilliant French diplomacy strikes again!

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

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

OTOH nothing beats a good piece of veal.

[Kuciwalker]

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

Pizza

[DAVOUT]

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

I suppose that you only allow yourself to eat vegetables. But you cannot oblige the mankind to exclude all animals from the food chain. And it is well known that beefs and calfs killed by the thousand in slaughterhouses are not deprived of defense.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Potato Salad -
Baked Beans -
Hot Dogs -
Ice Cream Sodas -
Pickles -
Cole Slaw -
Macaroni Salad - :q"
Hamburgers

OMG! Yur all wrong! Fixed.

Your taste is the worst of all. Figures.

[Pekka]

Dauphin, that actually made me laugh out loud..

[Vanguard]

I've eaten many good things in England. Strawberries and double cream. Trifle. Some excellent roast beef.

Unfortunately I've also eaten Scotch eggs, Steak and Kidney Pie, Eel pie, the unjustifiably famous English Breakfast and boiled cabbage. Oh, and a coq au vin so inedible that not one person of the fifty I was with had more than a single bite.

[Pekka]

"Strawberries and double cream. Trifle. Some excellent roast beef."

These all sound like the titles of porn movies. Excellent...

[Vanguard]

Good food is better than most porn. English food, well, perhaps not.

[Ted Striker]

Potatoe salad
Potatoe salad
Potatoe salad
Potatoe salad
Potatoe salad

[Pekka]

Hey man I really really like good food, but I'm really confused if you know how to do sex? It's really not that difficult.. maybe you have gotten it wrong all this time?

[Vanguard]

Sex? Not sure what you are talking about.

Is there anything about this "sex" thing on the internet? Do you have a link where I can read up about it?

[Zopperoni]

Lunch at 13:37...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Vanguard
Sex? Not sure what you are talking about.

Is there anything about this "sex" thing on the internet? Do you have a link where I can read up about it?

cumshots.google.com

Courtesy of KH.

[Spiffor]

And Blair doesn't want to pour oil on the fire...

Fortunately, you can always trust the tabloids to jump on a francophobe opportunity

From the BBC:

Blair sidesteps French food fight
Tony Blair has refused to be drawn into a diplomatic row after the French president reportedly made insulting remarks about British food.

Jacques Chirac joked with German and Russian leaders: "One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad."

As the G8 summit nears, Mr Blair said: "The G8 is going to focus on really important issues and to be quite honest I'm not going to disparage anybody."

Mr Chirac also reportedly said Britain had the worst food after Finland.

Mr Blair was asked to comment on remarks attributed to President Chirac while he was in Singapore to boost the chances of London being awarded the 2012 Olympics.

Not tempted

He was asked if relations with France would damage London's bid and the G8 summit in Scotland later this week but the prime minister declined to give a definite answer.

"Particularly at this moment I don't want to get tempted down that path," Mr Blair said.

I'd like him to come to my constituency and I'll take him to some restaurants that will match anything he can see in France
Michael Howard

"What I'm concentrating on in the next few hours and days is to do our level best to support this bid and then have a G8 focused on Africa and climate change and everything else comes a long, long way behind those things."

However, Tory leader Michael Howard said he would be happy to prove the French president wrong about British food.

"My constituency is one of the closest in England to France ... I'd like him to come to my constituency, over to Folkestone and Hythe, and I'll take him to some restaurants that will match anything he can see in France," he said.

Mr Chirac's comments were reported in French newspaper Liberation after several journalists overheard his jokes with Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin.

"The only thing they 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."

A spokesman for President Chirac said the report did not reflect "the tone or the content" of the meeting.

Summit menu

The menu at the G8 summit, to be held at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland, has not been revealed.


HAVE YOUR SAY
I presume this means that Chirac will be bringing a packed lunch to Gleneagles?
Peter, Nottingham

However, Scotland's chef of the year, Andrew Fairlie, will be preparing it, said hotel managing director Peter Lederer.

He hinted to the Scotsman newspaper that venison and seafood could be served - Mr Fairlie's signature dish is smoked lobster, which involves smoking lobster shells over old whisky barrels for up to 12 hours.

"I won't be doing anything extra special for the two dinners [during the summit]," he said.

"It is a matter of sticking to what you know and maintaining the standards we have already set."

Media indignation

British newspapers on Tuesday were indignant about the remarks attributed to President Chirac.

The Times regarded the president's reported comments as "an astonishing diplomatic blunder".

The Daily Telegraph said the insult had heightened Anglo-French rivalries on the eve of the G8 summit and the 2012 Olympic decision.

The paper said Mr Chirac's behaviour was "no way to conduct high politics".

The Sun suggested that what it calls the president's "sneering" remarks may turn out to be bad news for the Paris Olympic bid.

The paper's logic was that he also criticised food from Finland - the homeland of two members of the International Olympic Committee.

In the House of Commons, the Conservatives said Mr Blair should tell Mr Chirac that "Scotland's agriculture and food production is a major economic asset".

Shadow Scottish secretary Eleanor Laing said Robert Burns had been right to compare French ragout and fricasse that "wad make her spew" unfavourably with the haggis - the "great chieftain o the puddin-race".

[notyoueither]

great chieftain o the puddin-race