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Culinary Map Of Europe According To France (2015)

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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.
- "😙🤌" is overrated though...
  
  Chef's kiss is overrated?

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%
- 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.

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 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.
- 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"
- Authentic Italian pizza was apparently invented before the circle.

"Ice cube salad"?
Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can't even make jokes about it.
- "You like black licorice? We can fix that."
  
  I craaaave salmiakki sometimes. Keep a stash on hand for those times. Delicious stuff.
- Uuuhh... the starvation bark bread? I think there was a reindeer meat pizza that won some award.
  Whatever, our own one thing is a vaguely modified American dish, and comes from Quebec, so you're not alone.
  
  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.

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

Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties

What's "soggy pastry" talking about?
- I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest "Danish".
  
  which is ironically austrian, literally called "wiener bread" in sweden and another name i've sometimes seen is "spandauer" which refers to a suburb of berlin lmao.

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"

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.

More like according an American person who identifies as French.

Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?
- Cake, maybe?
  
  Eat the rich
- A fillet of some kind.

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??
- Yeah that's surprisingly one thing we all agree on

Every frenchperson who came to serbia eats like they have never tasted food before. Dunno
- They do that everywhere regardless, disregard.

No such thing as too much pepper
- I can confirm there IS such a thing as too much Oregano though.

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

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

What's with the Health Hazard?
- Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

if ćevapčići is famine food call me starved

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.
  
  No some people definitely suck more than others.
  For example: The French.
  Haha

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