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Culinary Map Of Europe According To France (2015) (i.redd.it)

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 83 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"The Vast Atlantic Ocean" is 😙🤌

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 17 points 2 months ago

Cruel, heartless, totally deserved. Appropriate friendly banter.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? That's just reality, isn't it?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some say there are islands there that have food without flavour.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Nah, that's just misinformation.

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[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.

The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.

[–] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The meatball thing came from Ikea 100%

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We stole them bad boys from Turkey iirc.

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago

I think this belongs more in !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee

But I chuckled so thanks for sharing

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree. But we don’t get recognised. I couldn’t be more amused.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm amused too, I just felt the need to point that out.

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know it's part of your transition period and are forced by law to continue the 100 year war on a culinary manner.

I'd say that the proper French culinary colonialist equivalent to the Tikka Massala is the Bahn Mi sandwhich and that feels like a proper match for it.

But now come up with a dish that doeesn't take any inspiration from former colonies and I think most of them can be beaten by a simple onion soup

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

"Ice cube salad"?

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

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"You like black licorice? We can fix that."

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This feels more like !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee!

[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for mentioning, I didn't know about this. Just subbed!

[–] andresil@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's ironic that they've missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.

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[–] shiny_idea@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What's "soggy pastry" talking about?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'm more concerned about the fact that they think Austrians subsist on the corpse of a queen.

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[–] bricklove@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties

[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The French admit that ‘French fries’ are in fact Belgian? Sounds very un-French.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The term French Fries was most likely coined by American GIs, the French never had anything to do with that

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[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

They do that everywhere regardless, disregard.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

More like according an American person who identifies as French.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cake, maybe?

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No such thing as too much pepper

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I can confirm there IS such a thing as too much Oregano though.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month 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

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's with the Health Hazard?

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

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