The French and their food

OMG - Snails? Snails? Who eats snails? Dirty so and so's.

Is it true they also eat frogs legs? It can't be ! Who'd do that?

An bread with garlic?

I don't think I can believe it - it can't be true - surely?

Hear Hear for MikeP!Monique,you are the fool.MikeP is absolutely right.You are wrong.You may be French,but you know nothing.I have travelled to France many times regulary over several years on frequent day trips & I have seen the demise of your so called "culinary heritage".I was once unashamedly deluded into thinking that the French cuisine was the best in the world.But now the French have lost all sense of their once proud culture.
The traditional brasserie type restaurants that MikeP has mentioned have largely disappeared only to be replaced by the usual junk food outlets synonymous with the great British & American "culinary heritage" that has plagued every High street in our country for many years.Being French you might find that difficult to understand.Quite simply,thats progress.
You are bigoted & conceited in your views.MikeP is right,& if you cannot accept these facts then you are the real fool..

Monique : If your absurd contention were true, perhaps you could explain why nearly all the old 'brasserie' type restaurants in your country have been replaced by junk food outlets, and why the French are greater consumers, per capita, of junk food, than the Americans.

Your bigotry is exceeded only by your ignorance on the matter.

Sorry Monique, you're the fool, where have you been? McDonalds and Burger King are American!!

French is best.We have the best food & finest wines in the world.Mr.P does not know what he is talking about.I am French & I am proud of our culinary heritage.The British have their own ideas of good food,just look no further than McDonalds or Burger King.Mr.P is a fool.

I thought I saw MikeP walking down Bromsgrove High St recently.I know where he lives.A nicer man you could ever wish to meet.

Thank you so much for your kind and pleasantly worded enquiry regarding my wellbeing.

Since you seem so interested, I've been backpacking for a few weeks in the Himalayas and India, where I had some wonderful meals, all infinitely superior to the overpriced, pretentious, unvarying rubbish produced by the French. Not a frog's leg or a cirrhotic goose liver in sight.

Unlike many others, when I have something to say, I say it clearly the first time, and don't need to continually return to repeat what I've already said, which I is why you haven't seen further posts from me on this subject. I don't feel the need to defend my opinions or elicit agreement or approval for them from others.

Whatever has happened to MikeP?Have'nt seen any posts by him on this subject for a while.Has he emigrated to France?Has he finally flown this mortal coil?Or perhaps he has finally accepted that French food & wine is unreservedly THE BEST in the world.Bon appetit MikeP.

Hi there, dunno if I can criticize your POV. I'm froggy but lives in NZ for 4 yrs now.

The French are pushed toward Americanization of their society and to provide tourists full of $$$ with food adapted to their taste, or with junk food (more profit), by a management applying methods enacted in Harvard or Chicago. I can understand it makes them grumpy. Just imagine yourself being flooded by Frenchmen in London or New York and being requested by your Belgium-educated management to serve them garlic frogs, calf liver, or raw horse mince with a good servant attitude? Would you be happy to do that? Well, you could think it's a game, or otherwise change of job if you don't like the idea. But since several years, if you leave your job in France, it can takes several years to get a new one! So you shut up and go, but it takes on your nerves.

And concerning the point about arrogance. If you think about what means "arrogance" and that you realise the French culture (incl. education) is not an Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-American) culture, well you may understand that they have absolutely no means to realise that they could be arrogant, simply because they were told to follow other social rules than US/UK rules.
In the same way they just find UK/US people arrogant when they ask for foreign food because a well-educated French person would never ask for that.
Does it makes more sense?

To say that the French are arrogant about food is unargueably a fact.But to say that the French are ignorant about food is complete utter nonsense.The French are renowned for being the home of the worlds most delicious food & finest wines.Anybody who thinks otherwise are merely deluding themselves.Its a well known fact.I should know,I have lived in Brittany since these past several years.This is also the opinion of my British compatriots.
On the contrary,the British are renowned for having no culture where decent food & wine is concerned.British food is a joke.The British may be more civilised about what they eat,but at least the French know how to cook.Try finding a decent High St cafe in Britain where you can relax with a decent meal & a glass of wine.This is partly the reason why I emigrated to France.Different lifestyle,different culture.We are indifferent because we are British & just put up with it.
MikeP has a right to is own opinions,but I think he is merely deluding himself in this matter.He obviously cannot accept the truth that the French cuisine is far superior to ours.French is best.

Re-previous review,-pardon Moi for the grammer mistake,must have been the marinated songthrush I had in garlic sauce I had last night.

Pas de gastro-I totally agree with your comments.French food is over rated.Anybody who thinks that the French cuisine is superior are merely deluding themselves.The French are arrogant and pretentious in the extreme.They are deluded in thinking that they that they are the best the whole world.Try asking any self respecting French chef to cook a decent roast dinner or a fry up and they will just laugh at you.Don't even dare to ask for the HP brown sauce.We might have no decent cafe culture here,but at least we are more civilised in the food that we eat.
I have lived and worked in France since these past twelve years and I am shocked at how much the French standards have fallen in this time with the demise of the traditional French brassieries.These were once synonymous with the great French culture.These have now largely disappeared in favour of the proliferation of McDonalds and other fast food outlets.The great junk food blight has finally kicked the French into the modern age at last.MikeP knows precisely what I am talking about.He is absolutely right.