Meh, "proper cuisine" is definitely accurate since it's our national pride, but most of the others don't really feel like french stereotypes. "Soggy pastry" for Denmark even sounds suspiciously american, I've never heard anyone say that about this country in France and I don't even know what it's referring to
I took a look at the website this is coming from, it seems to be mostly the blog author's interpretation of what the stereotypes are for each of their maps
Here it is for anyone curious: https://atlasofprejudice.com/
Their mostly tongue-in-cheek like this one.
Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in the UK. I can't think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.
The best restaurants I've ever been to have been in London. But, then, they rarely serve "traditional" English food. Dollar for dollar, the food in London is better than the food in Paris.
Outside of London - sorry, I agree with the map. English cuisine has a few of things they do better than anyone else, but the meals have not impressed me. I can't speak for the rest of the UK; I haven't visited Scotland or Ireland, and only drove a few miles in Wales by accident.
However. I will fight anyone for a Cornish pasty. I don't know where they were invented, but like all great foods they're both delicious and made with, like, 6 ingredients.
My credentials include more than a single trip. I've had 4 vacations in France, and 2 years lived for 2 weeks every other month in Paris. I've had two vacations in England, and lived for 1-2 weeks every month in London, again for two years running. I have a great amount of experience with restaurants at all price ranges in both cities, and a reasonable exposure to cuisine outside of the capitals.
I think this belongs more in !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee
But I chuckled so thanks for sharing
"inventors"is the best diss i've ever seen for modern swedish foodi asked a friend from italy what she thought about our pizza and she basically said "as long as i don't think of it as pizza it's fine"
she and her bf would regularly hang out with the guy who ran the only italian pizzeria in town and they would shit-talk our food for hours. mad respect.
the way i'd summarize our cuisine is that the natively available food is basically "meat and parsnip stew", and thus we have a profound cultural (bordering on genetic) trauma which causes us to give precisely 0 fucks about what is "correct" or "looks good" and only care about it being tasty and interesting.
i feel like you're underselling our dependency on "old fish" and "just boil some grains"
This feels more like !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee!
Thanks for mentioning, I didn't know about this. Just subbed!
It's ironic that they've missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.
Yeah, I was like: O no, the French dislike te British too much to even insult them? ๐ธ
I supposed the joke was that non existent GB was that they dont even do cuisine
What's "soggy pastry" talking about?
I'm more concerned about the fact that they think Austrians subsist on the corpse of a queen.
Russians actually call russian salad "olivier", after the guy who made it, but it was invented in Russia by a man that was born there, so I am not sure you can say it is French.
seems Olivier was French/belgian as his name entail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Olivier
I suppose he was of franco-belgian descent, but he was born in Russia, raised in Russia, died in Russia, and invented his salad in Russia as a chief of a russian restaurant.
Even the french agree: "Lucien Olivier est un chef russe d'origineย franco-belge" - from Wikipaedia.
Also:
"Nationalitรฉ - russe"
Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties
The French admit that โFrench friesโ are in fact Belgian? Sounds very un-French.
The term French Fries was most likely coined by American GIs, the French never had anything to do with that
pomme frites??
I don't. I don't necessarily think they're French either tho, but France, Spain and Chile each have a better claim to it than Belgium.
Yeah that's surprisingly one thing we all agree on
Lol, the French cannot even make wine as good as Italians can and they think they can touch their food?
Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?Cake, maybe?
Eat the rich
A fillet of some kind.
Every frenchperson who came to serbia eats like they have never tasted food before. Dunno
They do that everywhere regardless, disregard.
LOL, that's funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.
They canโt even make wine as good as you can. They shouldnโt even think to criticize the food
Well, I can't make wine, for a starter. Additionally, rose wines from the south of France are delicious. Fuck nationalism, really. From my nation, in first place.
No such thing as too much pepper
I can confirm there IS such a thing as too much Oregano though.
Were the French always a bunch of pretentious elitist pricks or did that only start after some specific event?
Their food is good but it certainly isn't significantly better than many other places.
They still smoke like chimneys.
They are still pretty misogynistic.
They make terrible cars and pretty much all their manufacturing may as well have their quality control run by Helen Keller.
Their "world famous" city smells like piss and is a filthy mess (unless they decide to clean it up for something like the Olympics).
Their police are notorious for abusing their power and attempting to silence reporters or the media.
You seem to be getting emotional over a joke cartoon and your own preconceptions.
The truth is everyone around the world sucks about the same, and drawing broad generalities about millions based on memes and confirmation bias is ill-advised.
What's with the Health Hazard?
Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.
if ฤevapฤiฤi is famine food call me starved
