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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

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Any country's food is good if prepared correctly

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have yet to find German food that fits my tastes

You're probably too sober in that case

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

A fair point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some nice bread, beer, sausages, mustard, sourkraut, and asparagus would be a very nice lunch.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Fish and chips and meat pies can be pretty good. I'm also a fan of Earl Grey and scones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this [cw: mention of f*sting]

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

oh, you did not mean fasting lmao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even think of that

Dead laughing now agony-consuming

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I'd rather fist than fast, tbh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I thought the same

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I've met plenty of Spanish people who seemingly can't comprehend that chicken isn't vegetarian.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

French cuisine is a very complicated way of chugging a whole carton of heavy cream. Sure, it tastes pretty good, but: why?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

it tastes pretty good

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

You've heard of the gallon of milk a day diet, well im on that carton of cream grind

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

name 1 thing italian that comes from Italy though berdly-smug

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Sounds like italian cope!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

French people have good food.

Hard disagree.

The French are not people.

Their food is pretty good though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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).

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

tbf outside of cajun or indigenous meals - most american food is ass and the quality of ingredients is even worse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Putting butter on everything doesn't count as real food.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I tell you hwut, nobody's eating at a restaurant called The ITALIAN Laundry

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not hard to have good food when your definition of good is "I have covered this thing in a butter sauce"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Unacceptable Opinion

maddened

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

French food just makes me wish I was eating Latine food, leaving me totally unfulfilled.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like the big bread stick

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

French people have good food, but the whole palette of Chinese cuisine is far more diverse imo, very much not afraid of a char and a skewer. French food is interesting because of how much a single item and it's products are used in any given dish, but overall flavor profile is not acidic enough imo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

well yeah, china is a continents worth of cuisine, of course they have more diversity than any given country in "europe"

Death to America

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't like butter, meat, bread, or wine so that doesn't leave me with much options in fr*nch "cuisine"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

me: "Is there anything on the menu without wine

waiter:

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

French food is true Fatboy Food. It's like the yank who salivates over a triple bacon burger knew what herbs were.

Its for sure better than anything else in northern Europe but thats not saying much.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

alpine

nerd I think you're actually eating Swiss cuisine...

Btw, doesn't every culture at least have a broken clock, when it comes to good food?

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