chapotraphouse
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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
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.
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
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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'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.
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.
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).
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.
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?
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
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
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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"
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
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.
well yeah, china is a continents worth of cuisine, of course they have more diversity than any given country in "europe"
Death to America
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.
I don't like butter, meat, bread, or wine so that doesn't leave me with much options in fr*nch "cuisine"
alpine
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?
Counter struggle session: a lot of the best techniques of the French and their sauces have their origins in the kitchen of the feudal Italian peasant.
The French simply lifted it and added the bourgeois decadence of butter and edible flowers. There are some undeniably French things, and they came up with a lot of the vocabulary.
I have done no research to support this thesis but it is an opinion I hold strongly. It makes sense when you consider the trajectory of the Napoleonic era through Italy and I WILL willfully disregard any facts pointing to the contrary because of my biases that are mine and I’m allowed to have them.
All agreement and supporting Information is welcome I will not be responding to any questions from haters OR losers.