Aw crap. I’m pretty sure it isn’t supposed to go down that way over here. We’re probably going to be in big trouble shortly.
(Okay, act naturally, keep your eyes straight ahead & walk quickly. There’s still a chance we might make it out of here in one piece…)
I was participating in a pub quiz one night in a British-style pub here in Bangkok.
The Bull’s Head, to be specific. One question was: “What was last used in France in 1975?” The correct answer, of course, was “the guillotine.” Some wag shouted out: “Soap!”
This is the only reason I even posted in here (I’m an unabashed noob) because my experiences with serving and cooking *nouveau cuisine * based on French technique rails in my being against what the OP asserted about French food in general.
The current movement (in America) is AWAY from heavy, butter-laden sauces and TOWARDS utilising local farmers for the bounty of the season, while maintaining a underlying sense of training in well-established French-initiated cooking techniques and methods.
This is nothing less than an emulation of what culinary changes France is also going through, pushing the envelope, not merely relying on well-prepared comfort food…
The assertion that the French or any other high-level chefs/restaurants from ANY country do nothing more than “make do” with leftover or less-than-fresh ingredients is absurd.
But as I post this I recall the tounge-in-cheek references the OP has made throughout, so…
I dunno.
Hahahaha! I need a new keyboard, I spewed coffee on this one…
Just like you to jump up and down on one pithy little detail to distract from the total lack of substance of your posts. Also just like you to post a one-liner. No wonder your post count is so high, it’s all fluff.
Labrador Deceiver - No such luck. Unless you’ve some sort or mental defect that doesn’t allow you to remember more than 30 minutes past, that’s exactly what I did - I said I didn’t like French food, and gave some reasons - a lack of fresh vegetables WHERE I WAS. You’ve spent the whole thread trying to prove me wrong, just as eleanorigby talks about. Creative forgetting of your actions in a vain attempt to justify yourself is pretty pathetic. I think I hear the short bus pulling up outside for you - don’t you want to go to the special school today?
FoieGrassIsEvil - Cite? Just because you like the cuisine does not mean it’s the best in the world, and certainly doesn’t infer that French cooking style is the font from which all other cooking spouts. If you’re training as a cordon bleu chef, then yes you will spend lots of time learning French cooking and presentation style. I kinda doubt Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, German, African, American, etc… styles of cooking depend on French much.
I don’t like French cuisine (or more specifically, cuisine of the Savoie region of France); it’s heavy, it’s fatty, it’s loaded with cream and cheese and butter and lacks fresh green vegetables that I enjoy, and many of the other ingredients I find disagreeable in both taste and origin (i.e. foie grass, tripe, lardons). I dislike foie grass not only because of how it’s made, but because of what it tastes like.
eleanorigby - thanks for that. I wanted to rant, and these people seem to think that I can’t do that, in the Pit of all places; why do they feel the need to prove me wrong? I’ve said several times in this thread what I’m really unhappy about (customer service, rude people, poor food); the rant was just a vent. So what the fuck? It’s not like I’m soliciting volunteers to join me in a crusade to eradicate all French people and repopulate the country with Danes or something.
Siam Sam - wish I was there! That is absolutely brilliant! 
Now you’re just making shit up.
There’s this button on your keyboard - it’s called the up arrow. You might need to click the mouse on the top right corner of the web page and go back a page or two. Roll through this thread and re-read it. I’m sure you’ll find it illuminating.
Seeing as how I provided cites and you provided exactly none. And I did say I didn’t care for French food and provided reasons why.
Fuckwit.
So, you don’t know their backstory but condemn them anyway, all the while lamenting that we don’t know your backstory and shouldn’t draw conclusions about you.
Did I condemn them? Did I say anything other than I would choose to not associate with them in future?
Posh dresses and high heels? Nope, just got back from there and can’t remember seeing anyone dressed that way. Maybe it was the level of society she hung out with or going to the bar after work. Or it could be that it was winter there and 20C temperatures brings out the parkas.
Now I did see some fool dressed up as a pork chop. I never could figure out what he was trying to sell or advertise (uh, pork chops? Maybe, but I didn’t see any to be sold). And I did see 3 cuties dressed up as angels blocking an exit to a shopping mall. By blocking the exit you had to go past a few more shops to get out. Personally, I just stood there and drooled 
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It’s not like I’m soliciting volunteers to join me in a crusade to eradicate all French people and repopulate the country with Danes or something.
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Bloody hell, what a spiffing idea old chap 
Maybe I misunderstood you. I’ve always taken “Fuck you” in a negative way.
Too bad you weren’t able to back any of that up with, you know, cites.
I hate to have to say this GomiBoy but the best coffee I ever tasted was in ::cough, cough:: France.
Also the best bread
I’m sorry
I feel betrayed. I’m hurt and appalled. One of my adopted countrymen, admiring the French? Say it isn’t so…
I hate to say it but the French make nice bread
Mon Dieu!! you have it wrong my good fellow.
I don’t admire the frogs one iota, nossir.
It’s the coffee I praised not the bloke that served it up. I mean, honestly how could you, how very dare you
Unsurprisingly, you absolutely did misunderstand me.
In this case, one of the many uses of the word ‘fuck’ is to strongly and negatively state a lack of desire to not associate in future with someone or something.
As in “Fuck you Labrador Deceiver you pathetic whiner and read the fucking thread for the cites I’ve already given, as well as the fact that another poster quoted Antony Bourdain as supporting my argument in not only French but many other cuisines.”
All make sense now?
I retract the comment fully and apologize unreservedly. I misunderstood.
I was going to grab your hand and pull us out of here, but… I see you’re from Atlanta. Atlanta Georgia. Well, it’s nice to know that at least one of their citizens has some rudimentary manners. I have suffered greatly from the peoples of Atlanta and want you to know I hate peaches because of it!
This is a joke to highlight how easy it is to mock a region other than on’es own. Don’t try this at home.
Replace the French with Danes? That IS a notion I could get behind! And what shall we put in Denmark? Norwegians? Or let’s move the Aussies around a bit; they could do with some shaking up. Or how about Cubans? We could fill Denmark with Cubans–they’ve never seen snow. And then put the Aussies on Cuba.
I like this–kind of like the game of Risk for society types.
The French tend to wait on you as if they’re doing you a favor. Since that is standard operating procedure, it can be ignored–it’s not personal. The French waiter is either worried about his lover, his liver or the Opposition in government. Move on–you can be sure you’re not renting space in his head!
There was a hugely funny story I read once about Australians getting all beered up one night, putting some motors their country, and driving it up through the Panama Canal into the middle of the Atlantic because they got bored with being so far away from things. Woke up with a huge hangover and large chunks of Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica missing with a trail of Four-X and Fosters cans strewn all over the South Pacific and mid-Atlantic and Central America going 'what the fu…"
I think it was the Onion but I can’t find it…
I know it’s not personal. But the whole point of this rant is that I don’t care - I don’t like being treated that way, I get treated better in a lot of other places where I’d rather be anyways, and there’s a whole lot more of the world to explore anyways, so why waste time on the French?
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Replace the French with Danes? That IS a notion I could get behind!
If you make the Danes wear German WW2 helmets and uniforms the whole business should take around 6 weeks.
What?