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British Food
Chirac jokes about British food
French President Jacques Chirac is reported to have cracked jokes about British food at a meeting with the German and Russian leaders on Sunday. French newspaper Liberation says Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin laughed and joined in the banter. "The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease," it quotes Mr Chirac as saying, within earshot of reporters. A French government spokesman declined to comment on the report. The three men met at celebrations to mark the 750th anniversary of the founding of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Koenigsberg, an exclave of Russia surrounded by Poland and Lithuania. "One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad," Mr Chirac went on, according to the newspaper's report. "After Finland, it is the country with the worst food." Problems with Nato Mr Chirac is also reported to have reminisced about an occasion when Lord George Robertson, the former Secretary General of Nato, had made him try a Scottish dish. "That is where our difficulties with Nato come from," he said. The comments come as France and the UK compete to hold the Olympic games in 2012, and are at loggerheads over the EU budget. On Wednesday Mr Chirac will be flying to Gleneagles for a dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth II to open the G8 summit. The menu has not been published, but most of the food, provided by the Gleneagles hotel, will be locally sourced. "The Taste of Scotland is always to be enjoyed at the Gleneagles Hotel, from morning kippers or a fresh egg from a nearby farmhouse; scones and cream or Dundee cake for afternoon tea in The Bar to Angus beef, Scottish salmon, venison or Highland grouse for dinner," the hotel's website says. It adds that the hotel's kitchens "benefit from the finest, freshest produce available from Scotland's larder, and from specialist suppliers around the world". Hamburgers OK US President George W Bush said in an interview with the Times newspaper that he would not eat haggis at the summit, or wear a kilt. Liberation says Mr Putin tried to egg Mr Chirac on at the Kaliningrad meeting, asking him what he thought of hamburgers. Mr Chirac replied that hamburgers were far preferable to British food. In an interview with Time magazine two years ago, he said he had been a fan of America since spending a summer at Harvard University in 1953, and that he loved "junk food". France came close to being fined in 2002, for refusing to lift a ban on British beef, in the wake of the BSE crisis. The European Union issued a worldwide ban on British beef exports in 1996, but lifted it in 1999. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/h...pe/4649007.stm Published: 2005/07/04 12:58:09 GMT © BBC MMV |
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Following up to Miss L. Toe
"One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad," Mr Chirac went on, according to the newspaper's report. "What London has that other cities don't right now is high quality food at all levels. In every category, from comfort food to gastronomic experiments, we loved what we ate" John Willoughby, executive editor, US magazine "Gourmet". Chiracs problem is he doesn't like UK pointing out the French steal most of the CAP funds that should go to the new countries if anybody and it ought to stop, lets hope someone shoves a Cornish pasty right up the rude arrogant frogs derriere. And any other rude arrogant Frenchmen, the cost of the pasties can come out of the French CAP share. I don't suppose they liked a British restaurant getting voted best in world either. French food is of course pretty good, trouble is its in France! :-) I hope that wasn't too conciliatory? "The Taste of Scotland is always to be enjoyed at the Gleneagles Hotel, from morning kippers or a fresh egg from a nearby farmhouse; scones and cream or Dundee cake for afternoon tea in The Bar to Angus beef, Scottish salmon, venison or Highland grouse for dinner," the hotel's website says. It adds that the hotel's kitchens "benefit from the finest, freshest produce available from Scotland's larder, and from specialist suppliers around the world". Yep, Scottish produce is some of the best in the world. -- Mike Reid "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/londonfood.htm" -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk" |
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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:45:00 +0100, The Reids
wrote: Following up to Miss L. Toe "One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad," Mr Chirac went on, according to the newspaper's report. "What London has that other cities don't right now is high quality food at all levels. In every category, from comfort food to gastronomic experiments, we loved what we ate" John Willoughby, executive editor, US magazine "Gourmet". Which 'other' cities? (you knew I just had to respond to this one, Mike!) -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Following up to DDT Filled Mormons
"What London has that other cities don't right now is high quality food at all levels. In every category, from comfort food to gastronomic experiments, we loved what we ate" John Willoughby, executive editor, US magazine "Gourmet". Which 'other' cities? (you knew I just had to respond to this one, Mike!) Of course, I don't have the magazine to hand but I'm sure he wasn't talking about Birmingham and Liverpool! Actually I think he was a little over the top to be honest, but that is the way things are going. (At the bottom end, if you see what I mean, I would rather eat in Spain or Italy than UK) I hear Gordon Ramsay is just now boarding Eurostar (at *Waterloo* station) to deliver the Cornish Pasty in his best expletives deleted three Michelin star style, (sideways, garnished with horseradish). -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap Photos of both "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk" |
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I presume he means all levels of cost. (Though I don't agree - low-end
food can still be pretty bad in London, while top-end is certainly among the best the world has to offer and mid-market is much improved over twenty years ago, although still variable in a range from indifferent to excellent.) |
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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:32:35 +0100, The Reids wrote:
Following up to DDT Filled Mormons "What London has that other cities don't right now is high quality food at all levels. In every category, from comfort food to gastronomic experiments, we loved what we ate" John Willoughby, executive editor, US magazine "Gourmet". Which 'other' cities? (you knew I just had to respond to this one, Mike!) Of course, I don't have the magazine to hand but I'm sure he wasn't talking about Birmingham and Liverpool! Actually I think he was a little over the top to be honest, but that is the way things are going. (At the bottom end, if you see what I mean, I would rather eat in Spain or Italy than UK) I hear Gordon Ramsay is just now boarding Eurostar (at *Waterloo* station) to deliver the Cornish Pasty in his best expletives deleted three Michelin star style, (sideways, garnished with horseradish). The 'real' test is to come on Wednesday from Singapore. |
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Miss L. Toe wrote:
Chirac jokes about British food My wife and I have been on five Trafalgar tours: France (twice), Italy, Greece and England (mostly Devon and Cornwall). Much to our surprise, the food in England was consistently the best. Now I know tours of this sort are not gourmet outings, but the improvement in English cuisine since our last visit many years ago was dramatic, to say the least. Strangely, we didn't see M. Chirac at any of our stopovers. Perhaps he was eating somewhere else. -- Ron |
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"Miss L. Toe" wrote: Chirac jokes about British food French President Jacques Chirac is reported to have cracked jokes about British food at a meeting with the German and Russian leaders on Sunday. French newspaper Liberation says Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin laughed and joined in the banter. "The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease," it quotes Mr Chirac as saying, within earshot of reporters. It's ironic that the French should have such a dim view of British food since the French soldiers ate so much of it while they were hiding in England from 1940-44. War time food was pretty limited, but I it probably wasn't much better back in France when the Germans were taking it all. |
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