look I don’t have enough wifi to look up electoral results and french people won’t talk to me, but some of the meals I’ve had in alpine refuges this week have been the best meals I may have ever had
I am also so wine-drunk and so exhausted from being the fastest hiker I have encountered on the TMB. These may influence my opinions
Any country’s food is good if prepared correctly
I have yet to find German food that fits my tastes, but I guess I’ll give it another shot. Gotta say Thai, Indian, and Mexican are probably my favorites. And sushi. I could eat only sushi for the rest of my life and be happy with it.
Some nice bread, beer, sausages, mustard, sourkraut, and asparagus would be a very nice lunch.
I have yet to find German food that fits my tastes
You’re probably too sober in that case
Skyr and Plokkfiskur are both good. It doesn’t have many move redeemable dishes though.
Cornish pasties, fish and chips (especially in goth paradise Whitby), various stews, shepherds/cottage pie, pork pies, and rarebit all immediately come to mind. Then there’s your desserts - apple pie, bakewell tart, rhubarb and gooseberry fools, victoria sponge cake, loads of stuff that tastes great if made properly.
Only problem is most british can’t cook.
French people have good food.
Hard disagree.
The French are not people.
Their food is pretty good though.
French cuisine is a very complicated way of chugging a whole carton of heavy cream. Sure, it tastes pretty good, but: why?
I could be wrong, but the French people I’ve met have been the most resistant to going vegan than any race I’ve even met. It’s like all the pigeon and frog and goose they’re eating causes them to be unable to eat tofu.
Can confirm, vegans are an ultra minority here.
One explanation that I find interesting is that all the people who have the right mindset to go vegan in the US do find animal products that are produced by actual farmers in France. In the US that’s impossible from what I know. So basically if you hate cruelty you can buy chicken at the local farmer so you know they had an ok life before slaughter.
I know that veganism has a definition of animal rights that go beyond “ethical farming” but veganism is also least present in the countries where people are actually confronted with animal death for consumption at an early age. The state of the USian food industry makes it so much more obvious to just cut animal products because they’re all produced so horribly
Americans worship the constitution, europeans worship their local cuisine. it’s dumb but everytime i talk about veganism to someone here they act like i’m talking about bombing their hometown
everytime i talk about veganism to someone here they act like i’m talking about bombing their hometown
Yeah that’s pretty insane. And, tbh, I have my personal philosophical disagreements with anti-speciest morality, but politically, big support to vegans against reactionary carnists and for trying to save humanity from climate disaster
Out of like classic western foods it’s pretty good, lots of focus on fresh bread, wine, and cream. Personally I think it’s pretty overrated but I think a lot of westerners with underdeveloped palates are happy to land on the sort of rich and creamy bases that a lot of French food has. I do think that it really has created a concept of high-class dining that seems to preclude the use of animal product (I love cooking and it wasn’t until I start cooking more Indian and Asian food that I realized that a lot of my ideas of incorporating meat and animal product into my diet was simply due to this).
I encountered some dipshit on social media years ago that claimed he could never stop eating animals or their products because they were required for authentic cuisine.
Yeah really I think it’s not good that this cuisine that’s so meat/diary focused is elevated to this status of being sort of revered. Like conceptually I think French food is all about taking these base flavors that were available in the west and figuring out how to dial them up to a 10, and you can still keep that spirit, but the sort of reverence for how is it has to be done “right” keeps people from experimenting.
And yeah people also just suck. I did a French night at my house with my roommates and decided to do ratatouille in the style of the movie and I had one friend just fucking hate it and shit on it. And then he said he hated French food and I told him I could’ve easily just done meat in a wine sauce and you’d love it but you’re not even giving this a fair chance. Like try not to be pissy because we didn’t have some stereotypical meat centerpiece
