Up yours Chirac!

I guess they weren't judging the olympics on our cuisine were they, you jumped up arrogant old man!

what?

DUBAI — French President Jacques Chirac’s comments about bad British food have proved unappetising to the British community.

Many Britons residing here have criticised Chirac’s comments. According to Liberation newpaper, Chirac cracked jokes to Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schroeder at the expense of British food. “After Finland, it’s the country with the worst food,” he is reported to have said.
A spokesperson for Tony Blair said: “Some things are best not commented on.” Restaurant magazine recently revealed top 50 restaurants in the world. Number one went to the Fat Duck in UK.

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Just 24 hours before today's 117th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session, French newspaper Liberation quoted Chirac as saying, "One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad. The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease."


Comments:

"We might not have great food to French standards, but at least English women shave their armpits!" wrote Joby Read of Cambridgeshire.

Trust someone to mention the War: Peter Emsley from Canada wrote: "Someone should remind Chirac that if it were not for the fish and chip mob from Britain, he would be eating sauerkraut now, not frogs legs."

doesn't everybody make fun of english food?

*ducks and runs*

Don't know where this one comes from

I don't know one friend of person of my family or people around who doesn't

That's horrible now i'm shocked !

Chirac is just a politician like the others

Yes! Even the Dutch! And we can't cook either!

*ducks and runs with Maria*

But nobody makes fun of the Finnish and lives to tell the tale.

Ice

Why would anybody make fun of Finnish whatever?

Apparently, the Finnish want to set him straight.

Upset by Jacques Chirac's reported comments disparaging their national cuisines, a Finnish member of the European Parliament and his British wife have dared the French president to sample turnip rye pie, brambleberry wine and other Nordic delights. Legislator Alexander Stubb wrote to Chirac Tuesday inviting him to dinner at their home south of Brussels.

A menu proposed by top Finnish chef Jyrki Sukula starts with a Finnish take on Britain's classic fish and chips. That would be followed by a broth of cepe mushrooms with turnip rye pie, then rack of baby lamb from Finland's Aland islands served with nettle mash.

For dessert, there's berries marinated in Arctic brambleberry wine and a pudding made from beestings - milk taken from cows immediately after they give birth - a popular Finnish specialty.

The French newspaper Liberation on Tuesday quoted Chirac telling German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin that only Finland had worse food than Britain.

"We can't trust people who have such bad food," Chirac was quoted as saying of the British. He reportedly added that mad cow disease was Britain's sole contribution to European agriculture.

The comments provoked outrage in the British press. "Don't talk crepe, Jacques!" scorned The Sun.

Finns were already smarting from criticism of their cooking by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who once claimed, "the Finns don't even know what prosciutto is," in a successful bid to ensure the EU's food safety agency was located in Parma instead of Helsinki.

In his letter of invitation, Stubb did acknowledge one area of French gastronomic superiority. "We hope that, as president of an esteemed wine-producing country, you could provide the wines," he wrote.

Hehe, cool reply.

For Chirac to bring it up heavily and arrongantly, even as a joke, in a political meeting is plain incompetence.

If only our politicians were half as good as our food and wine...

Ponrauil