• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    Got to love the French calling Italian food overrated, when their international recognized dish consists of black coffee and a cigarette.

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    Danish pastry is not soggy. On the contrary, it’s a lot crispier than what the rest of Europe is eating.

    Perhaps they’re thinking of the pastry called a danish, which is not Danish. We ourselves call it a Berliner, but I think it’s actually from Austria.

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      The French are just jealous of our portable usable bread, that isn’t 16 feet long, doesn’t go off 20 minutes after purchase, and can actually be used to make sandwiches.

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    Every now and then this picture or some variation of pops up and my country gets slapped with being rice country.

    We cook and eat better than the spanish, french and italians put together. And we are not afraid of our spices.

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    Completely valid criticism for hungary. I just put like a kilo of paprika on like 100 grams of chicken 💀

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      I was gonna say they miss the wine and fancy cheeses, but now that I think about it the wine selection is actually fairly solid, and you don’t get much fancier than Pule.

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      It’s the European equivalent of extreme poverty. But by world standards, they’re doing just fine lol.

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          They even dont recognise the potato as a seperate entity. They really just call them pomme de terre (ground apple) and job’s a goodun.

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          Ah but they’re not potatoes there… They’re ground apples (that’s the translation in case you’ve no French). Doesn’t count. Big pharma got in on the naming after a campaign by doctors who didn’t like them.

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          Talk to the English… They were very fond of taking potatoes for taxes in the 1800s (historically accurate truth is that the Irish grew other crops to pay the taxes and used potatoes for their own subsistence but it was an obvious dig that I had to get in for the giggles).

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    “Marie Antoinette” is probably the strangest food on that map. I had no idea about French meat preferences.

    PS: I wonder where the Viennoiserie is from.

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    I like it how the map essentially says “we cannot find anything proper to complain about Italy.”

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    France is good for bread and wine. French food is basically Italian food without pasta. Lots of butter and salt with no competing flavors. Want something with your savory dish? Fuck you, pair it with a wine. Want spicy? Fuck you that’s not tradition!

    French food is bad. It tastes fine but the ceremony and culture around it are toxic.

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      I can’t even tell you what French food is… Nothing comes to mind as particularly French. I can imagine Italian, Greek, Spanish, German, etc but all I can come up with for French is baguettes and escargot.

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      “French food is really good.” they told me during months I spent traveling all around country over many years. “It’s just complicated and most people don’t know how to cook it.”

      Me “So in the past two weeks I have tried 14 different places in 6 different cities and all 14 meals have been horrible. Okay…”

      There’s a reason why a tire company publishing a list of recommended places to eat when traveling around France became so popular. Its not because the average place to get food was good.

      Mexico: Stopping at a gas station, a little old lady hand rolling tortillas and cooking them on an open bbq. Her “Tacos?” Me nodding vigorously"Si, si, si" They were insanely delicious.

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        Yeah I can’t think of any French food that I’m like yeah this is good. Michlin stars? I to like the putting on sticky gold stars in grade school to make myself feel better? I literally have no memory that I can say that was something good that I tried.

        I’ll have an Irish/English breakfast or fish and chips any day. German sourdough or bratwurst and pretzels or schnitzel. Sushi any day.

        The irony is there’s a what used to be a gas station, and repair place as I had my car worked on there, that’s now considered one of the best Mexican places in town.

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        Hey! The ciabatta is totally different from a baguette!

        Ciabatta’s crust is more thicc, the crumb has more holes and is more chewy while the baguette crust isn’t as thicc as ciabatta’s one and the crumb is more dense and soft

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          Baguette: Chewy on the inside, hard, crusty, and chewy on the outside. Gotta scrape the inside of your mouth and give your jaw muscles a workout. If your mouth and jaw isn’t sore after eating one, it’s no good.

          Ciabatta: We like the chewy but the hard and crusty not so much. Let put a ton of olive oil on the outside to lessen the crusty, but keep the chewy. And being Italian, olive oil goes on most things anyways.

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          True, but I believe the baker who invented it did state that it was meant to compete or substitute a baguette, but Italian.