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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Lol, the French cannot even make wine as good as Italians can and they think they can touch their food?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

"Ice cube salad"?

Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can't even make jokes about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

"You like black licorice? We can fix that."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Uuuhh... the starvation bark bread? I think there was a reindeer meat pizza that one some award.

Whatever, our own one thing is a vaguely modified American dish, and comes from Quebec, so you're not alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's not cuisine, that's a dish. It's a Finnish dish, but the cuisine is technically Italian.

We don't have a cuisine in the same way in the North as mainland Europe does. Like do you know what the national dish of Finland is? Karjalanpaisti, Karelian stew. Which when traditionally made, has the following ingredients ONLY; beef cubes, pork cubes, a mildly salted pot of water.

Heat for several hours.

That's it.

Like people joke about how bland British food is but it's literally on fire compared to our traditional dishes. Like a shepherd's pie made with a red wine and even bland-ish British spices would be absolutely gorgeous compared to Karelian stew.

I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Mongolian "cuisine" is kind of the same. At some point you're far enough north meat is the only reliable ingredient. It's remarkable how well the Koreans and Russians have managed to make out, really.

I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

In which way do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Well Mongolia is quite a bit further South than even the furthest part of Finland. Finland being around 59° and Mongolia 52°. But it's warmer here, more likely. Because we get some of the warming effects of the Gulf.

Mongolia is mostly desert and we have the sea and forests. My point here being there's tons of plants and whatnot. I understanding having to eat just horse if there's literally nothing else around, but... spices would've been more common in that part of the world though, so I wonder if the meat got some spices?

We didn't really even have peppers lol. Could've just thrown in some thyme and carrots and onions and whatnot at the least.

I've also heard a thing in which sometimes in hot parts of the world like say India, some of the heavy spice mixes originated because the lower classes would often have near spoiled meat and you wanted the spices to make up for the poor quality.

Here in Finland storing meat wouldn't have been much of an issue because of the cold.

I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

In which way do you mean?

Half pigs, half cows, mildly salty and without any passion (spice).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

LOL, that's funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago

They can’t even make wine as good as you can. They shouldn’t even think to criticize the food

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

A fillet of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Eat the rich

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

I think this belongs more in [email protected]

But I chuckled so thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 60 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

"The Vast Atlantic Ocean" is 😙🤌

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

Cruel, heartless, totally deserved. Appropriate friendly banter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What do you mean? That's just reality, isn't it?

[–] sik0fewl 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Some say there are islands there that have food without flavour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Nah, that's just misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

More like according an American person who identifies as French.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"inventors" is the best diss i've ever seen for modern swedish food

i 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Authentic Italian pizza was apparently invented before the circle.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.

The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The meatball thing came from Ikea 100%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

We stole them bad boys from Turkey iirc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.

you're insulting yourself and CTM more than french cuisine there mate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Name a French dish superior to Chicken Tikka Masala.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

coq au vin.

croque madame.

pain aux chocolat.

you even picked a curry that isn't even the best on the menu at INDIAN restaurants anyway. Lamb Rogan Josh, now that's a heavy hitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yep. Better than all three.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I agree. But we don’t get recognised. I couldn’t be more amused.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for mentioning, I didn't know about this. Just subbed!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It's ironic that they've missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I supposed the joke was that non existent GB was that they dont even do cuisine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, I was like: O no, the French dislike te British too much to even insult them? 😸

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What's "soggy pastry" talking about?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest "Danish".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

I'm more concerned about the fact that they think Austrians subsist on the corpse of a queen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

The French admit that ‘French fries’ are in fact Belgian? Sounds very un-French.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The term French Fries was most likely coined by American GIs, the French never had anything to do with that

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

No such thing as too much pepper

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

if ćevapčići is famine food call me starved

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Every frenchperson who came to serbia eats like they have never tasted food before. Dunno

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