Or you could exist on fried discs of "squished" beef wrapped in white bread rolls and served with a few scraps of fried potato called "French Fries" (Fried yes, French probably not) draped in sauce or mayonnaise and a scrap of lettuce to disguise the lack of any flavour in the main ingredients. .....

I take it you have never been to France. You've certainly learnt nothing about the country and its cooking.


Edible snails and frog's-legs (if the latter were ever often eaten in reality) are at most a luxury.

Pate de Foie Gras is made from goose, not duck, liver as its name says. Though I do agree the way it is produced - force-feeding the animals - is very wrong. This too is not a staple food anywhere.

Your lurid description of how to butcher a dead duck is not really that much different from the industrial slaughtering of any other farm animal, including those used to make the beef-burgers. What do you think any meat paste or burgers, and many other highly-processed meat products are, but "squished" meat? The only significant difference is using the blood.


Horse meat is perfectly edible although I have never tried it. Britons, who have always been open to sampling foods from around the world, shun horse meat probably from sentiment or romanticism, but I don't know why Americans do. Is it associated with the early colonisers who might have had to eat their horses and almost any other animals out of desperation and privation on their long treks West?


Oh -and the French were not "always hiding in swamps from Germans". That is a just a childishly cheap slur about a foreign country you don't know. Were you never taught history at school? (Or taught but did not learn...)

Have you ever actually eat food in a decent French restaurant or are you just basing your distaste on a pre conceived conclusion?

Because it's French!

I am a mixture of British, Scots, Nordic people, and so on...no French in my ancestry whatsoever, but I do have to defend their cooking. The French cook with wine and butter, and garlic, and even manage to make snails taste tender and good.

Snails and frogs?

I was disappointed by the food in Italy, I was expecting something great, but I would rate it as mediocre! It wasn't bad , but I can get better Italian food at the Olive Garden! I thought the cuisine was much better in France!

British cuisine has a worse reputation than its French counterpart.

It is said that Heaven is where the food is Italian, the poetry is British, the lovers are French, the soldiers are German, and it’s all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is where the food is British, the poetry is German, the lovers are Swiss, the soldiers are French, and it’s all organized by the Italians.