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“The Vast Atlantic Ocean” is 😙🤌
Cruel, heartless, totally deserved. Appropriate friendly banter.
What do you mean? That’s just reality, isn’t it?
Some say there are islands there that have food without flavour.
Nah, that’s just misinformation.
“😙🤌” is overrated though…
Chef’s kiss is overrated?
It’s very Italian.
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
Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.
The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.
The meatball thing came from Ikea 100%
We stole them bad boys from Turkey iirc.
Oh? Like the US and their statue of liberty? Or the Dutch and their tulips?
The statue was given by the french, but the USA started by giving one to France IIRC (they paid for the first one in Paris if I got that correctly). It’s obviously smaller, you can see it on one of the bridges in Paris.
Actually there are a whole bunch of them in Paris, that’s a little rabbit hole if you’re curious.
I am, thanks!
i mean maybe that’s what made it well known outside sweden, but meatballs are also a bog standard thing inside sweden.
Meatballs with mashed potatoes, gravy, and lingonberries is the “default food” basically, like fish and chips in the UK.
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.
I agree. But we don’t get recognised. I couldn’t be more amused.
I’m amused too, I just felt the need to point that out.
I love your pubs and have found the food enjoyable in my limited experience. I will say I don’t understand Kickey Ball were the guys run around and never kick the ball into the Giant barn door sized goal… But it’s vastly superior to the American version which leads to irreversible brain damage.
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 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.
Name a French dish superior to Chicken Tikka Masala.
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.
Yep. Better than all three.
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”
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? 😸
I supposed the joke was that non existent GB was that they dont even do cuisine
This feels more like !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee!
Thanks for mentioning, I didn’t know about this. Just subbed!
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’origine franco-belge” - from Wikipaedia.
Also:
“Nationalité - russe”
Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties
Lol, the French cannot even make wine as good as Italians can and they think they can touch their food?
The French admit that ‘French fries’ 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, that’s funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.
They can’t even make wine as good as you can. They shouldn’t 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.
Every frenchperson who came to serbia eats like they have never tasted food before. Dunno
They do that everywhere regardless, disregard.
Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?Cake, maybe?
Eat the rich
A fillet of some kind.
