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.
I have yet to find German food that fits my tastes
You’re probably too sober in that case
A fair point.
Some nice bread, beer, sausages, mustard, sourkraut, and asparagus would be a very nice lunch.
Ah yes, I have had some good German mustards! I forgot about that.
I have yet to find German food that fits my tastes
Swabian food is pretty good
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Skyr and Plokkfiskur are both good. It doesn’t have many move redeemable dishes though.
we can’t expect much from a people that didn’t figure out how to put their parliament indoors until the 1940s
England?
Fish and chips and meat pies can be pretty good. I’m also a fan of Earl Grey and scones.
I really like well prepared cabbage. They absolutely get bland after a couple of days, but even just with salt, if it’s fresh it’s good.
Death to Terf Island of course.
A shity little swamp island who specializes in not eating fish. Get fucked.
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.
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.
Reminds me of this [cw: mention of f*sting]
oh, you did not mean fasting lmao
I didn’t even think of that
Dead laughing now
I’d rather fist than fast, tbh
I thought the same
I’ve met plenty of Spanish people who seemingly can’t comprehend that chicken isn’t vegetarian.
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
There’s fucking Ortolan that is so shameful it’s traditional to put the napkin over your head to hide what the fuck you’re actually doing
French cuisine is a very complicated way of chugging a whole carton of heavy cream. Sure, it tastes pretty good, but: why?
it tastes pretty good
You’ve heard of the gallon of milk a day diet, well im on that carton of cream grind
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
I’ve noticed people who throw around “traditional” a lot when talking about recipes are just really obstinate about the notion of trying something different.
Italian food is 10x better.
Honestly in terms of everything I’d argue Italy is better than France. Prettier country, better food, better wine, more interesting history and culture. Idk why people jerk off France so much when Italy is right there, I’d travel to Italy over France any day.
name 1 thing italian that comes from Italy though
fascism
Name one thing from anywhere that originally came from that place 100% with no outside influence. You’ll maybe get like three dishes from Iran and that’s maybe it.
Sounds like italian cope!
I’ll watch the history shows about ancient Roman food it all looks good as hell
I’ve never felt fear for my life like I have when driving in Italy, whereas France is only occasionally a little scary, so that’s one thing.
Saying Italy is prettier is something I would contest as well, they both have stunning sections of the Alps and rolling Mediterranean countryside, it’s not easy to tell where Italy starts and France ends without the signposts.
Italian food I think is a little nicer, but it’s a close contest and French Vs Italian wine I would say goes the other way.
I’ve never felt fear for my life like I have when driving in Italy
It’s rough, yes, but you get used to it. The death rate by traffic accident is actually quite similar to France’s (and that also means half that of the USA - even though I just saw you’re from TERF-Island lol).
even though I just saw you’re from TERF-Island lol
Yeah, unfortunately lol.
Italy is the first Euro country I’m going to when I get the chance. I will walk around Napoli for days and eat until I fucking explode.
largely correct but the bread in france is better than in italy imo. overall italy kicks france’s ass though
Death to America
This is focaccia erasure.
Too hot in Italy, other than that fully agree
French people have good food.
Hard disagree.
The French are not people.
Their food is pretty good though.
tbf outside of cajun or indigenous meals - most american food is ass and the quality of ingredients is even worse.
It really is amazing how much they managed to accomplish with flour, milk, and the occasional egg.
It makes me wonder what could be accomplished if chefs spent 300 years making the fanciest food possible out of, like, some seed or nut or tuber.
French food slaps. Shame it’s overly pretentious a lot of times
Italian food is the most overrated shit ever. America needs to convert all its Italian restaurants into French ones tbh
I tell you hwut, nobody’s eating at a restaurant called The ITALIAN Laundry
conflating american “italian” food with the actual food of italy lol
Death to America
Half of Italy’s most treasured dishes were invented in America within the last century
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Death to America
France tried making a metric system for food quality. This made french cuisine synonymous with quality and paved the way for an inevitable backlash.
What is the TMB?
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Putting butter on everything doesn’t count as real food.
what is this anti-butter stance i see often on hexbear
unless it’s for vegan reasons butter is good and you can stay mad about it
Butter tastes good. Adding butter to something else is not a crazy skill move
French food just makes me wish I was eating Latine food, leaving me totally unfulfilled.
It’s not hard to have good food when your definition of good is “I have covered this thing in a butter sauce”
haha hell yeah
how can thwre be a struggle about this, french food is delicious, especially the pastries and bread. i’m no francophile but this feels like a one-sided argument
Death to America
