• Majorllama@lemmy.world
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    17 days 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.

    • falcunculus@jlai.luEnglish
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      16 days ago

      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.

  • mayooooo@beehaw.org
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    17 days ago

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

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    “Ice cube salad”?

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

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      17 days ago

      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.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        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.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          17 days ago

          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.

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

          In which way do you mean?

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
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            17 days 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).

  • galanthus@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    16 days ago

    Technically the French call the puff pastries most countries seem to equate to typically French (the croissant f.i.) after Vienna. Those are called Vienoiseries

  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

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