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pchang
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Cupertino?
Aug 1999
time: 05:19
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For lunch today I had:
grilled artichokes
grilled asparagus
grilled Korean BBQ ribs
grilled corn
mixed green salad
Last edited by pchang on 05-07-2005 at 05:10
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:19
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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffor
I must say that Chirac really is brilliant. He's winning the hearts and minds of people from across the world  |
By demonstrating he has neither ? 
At least the Montgolfier Brothers used hot air for floating balloons, not as means of warming their own heads.
I think he's in a competition with de Gaulle and Edith Cresson, to demonstrate how many people a French leader can insult without actually contributing anything themselves to the world at large.
Boulestin and Careme would have known what to say to such an ignoramus about British food:
" I had meals in all sorts of places, hotels, restaurants, tea shops and taverns. The food struck me as good when English, indifferent when pretending to be French. But I made two discoveries: mint sauce and Indian curry.
[....] After a perfect fortnight I returned to Paris full of intense and confused memories, a tin of curry powder, hundreds of cigarettes, a marvellous greenish-brown rainproof, several ties and the feeling that I must learn English and come again every season.
At St. Aulaye in September I tried to make my father appreciate the charms of London and English cooking. Marvellous steaks and chops, I said, and the grill shining, sparkling behind a glass screen. "
X. M. Boulestin: 'Myself, My Two Countries' 1936
Careme, of course, in his 'Art of French Cookery in the 19th Century' included many recipes for dishes cooked a l'anglaise , including sweetbreads.
French cookery- pah! It's been downhill all the way since the Medicis last improved it.
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Vanguard
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Monster Island
Apr 1999
time: 05:19
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I've eaten many good things in England. Strawberries and double cream. Trifle. Some excellent roast beef.
Unfortunately I've also eaten Scotch eggs, Steak and Kidney Pie, Eel pie, the unjustifiably famous English Breakfast and boiled cabbage. Oh, and a coq au vin so inedible that not one person of the fifty I was with had more than a single bite.
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Vanguard
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Monster Island
Apr 1999
time: 05:19
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Good food is better than most porn. English food, well, perhaps not.
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Vanguard
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Monster Island
Apr 1999
time: 05:19
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Sex? Not sure what you are talking about.
Is there anything about this "sex" thing on the internet? Do you have a link where I can read up about it?
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Zopperoni
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Lunch at 13:37...
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Spiffor
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CPA - Evil Clone brigade
Nov 2001
time: 06:19
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And Blair doesn't want to pour oil on the fire... 
Fortunately, you can always trust the tabloids to jump on a francophobe opportunity 
From the BBC:
quote:
Blair sidesteps French food fight
Tony Blair has refused to be drawn into a diplomatic row after the French president reportedly made insulting remarks about British food.
Jacques Chirac joked with German and Russian leaders: "One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad."
As the G8 summit nears, Mr Blair said: "The G8 is going to focus on really important issues and to be quite honest I'm not going to disparage anybody."
Mr Chirac also reportedly said Britain had the worst food after Finland.
Mr Blair was asked to comment on remarks attributed to President Chirac while he was in Singapore to boost the chances of London being awarded the 2012 Olympics.
Not tempted
He was asked if relations with France would damage London's bid and the G8 summit in Scotland later this week but the prime minister declined to give a definite answer.
"Particularly at this moment I don't want to get tempted down that path," Mr Blair said.
I'd like him to come to my constituency and I'll take him to some restaurants that will match anything he can see in France
Michael Howard
"What I'm concentrating on in the next few hours and days is to do our level best to support this bid and then have a G8 focused on Africa and climate change and everything else comes a long, long way behind those things."
However, Tory leader Michael Howard said he would be happy to prove the French president wrong about British food.
"My constituency is one of the closest in England to France ... I'd like him to come to my constituency, over to Folkestone and Hythe, and I'll take him to some restaurants that will match anything he can see in France," he said.
Mr Chirac's comments were reported in French newspaper Liberation after several journalists overheard his jokes with Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin.
"The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease," Mr Chirac said, according to the newspaper's report.
"After Finland, it is the country with the worst food."
A spokesman for President Chirac said the report did not reflect "the tone or the content" of the meeting.
Summit menu
The menu at the G8 summit, to be held at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland, has not been revealed.
HAVE YOUR SAY
I presume this means that Chirac will be bringing a packed lunch to Gleneagles?
Peter, Nottingham
However, Scotland's chef of the year, Andrew Fairlie, will be preparing it, said hotel managing director Peter Lederer.
He hinted to the Scotsman newspaper that venison and seafood could be served - Mr Fairlie's signature dish is smoked lobster, which involves smoking lobster shells over old whisky barrels for up to 12 hours.
"I won't be doing anything extra special for the two dinners [during the summit]," he said.
"It is a matter of sticking to what you know and maintaining the standards we have already set."
Media indignation
British newspapers on Tuesday were indignant about the remarks attributed to President Chirac.
The Times regarded the president's reported comments as "an astonishing diplomatic blunder".
The Daily Telegraph said the insult had heightened Anglo-French rivalries on the eve of the G8 summit and the 2012 Olympic decision.
The paper said Mr Chirac's behaviour was "no way to conduct high politics".
The Sun suggested that what it calls the president's "sneering" remarks may turn out to be bad news for the Paris Olympic bid.
The paper's logic was that he also criticised food from Finland - the homeland of two members of the International Olympic Committee.
In the House of Commons, the Conservatives said Mr Blair should tell Mr Chirac that "Scotland's agriculture and food production is a major economic asset".
Shadow Scottish secretary Eleanor Laing said Robert Burns had been right to compare French ragout and fricasse that "wad make her spew" unfavourably with the haggis - the "great chieftain o the puddin-race". |
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