18-01-2024, 06:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 18-01-2024, 06:34 AM by Cunninglinguist.)
There certainly are some peculiarities.
Their crème anglaise certainly doesn’t resemble anything I’ve ever seen on an English plate. Similarly, our French mustard is a total mystery to them.
I have to say that their run of the mill, daily cuisine, you’d find in the average roadside restaurant, doesn’t amount to much more than meat and a choice of haricot vert, or chips. I point this out whenever they tease me about English cuisine. Go round to someone’s house though and the average meal you get in a friends house, the French win hands down. They eat and drink far better than us. Their whole life is built around eating and drinking well. Quality is the name of the game and they don’t tend to, as a whole, shove a load of cheap crap down their necks. Yes, you can buy very cheap wine in the supermarkets and the British expats buy and consume it by the case load. The French would never think to serve it to a guest.
Their crème anglaise certainly doesn’t resemble anything I’ve ever seen on an English plate. Similarly, our French mustard is a total mystery to them.
I have to say that their run of the mill, daily cuisine, you’d find in the average roadside restaurant, doesn’t amount to much more than meat and a choice of haricot vert, or chips. I point this out whenever they tease me about English cuisine. Go round to someone’s house though and the average meal you get in a friends house, the French win hands down. They eat and drink far better than us. Their whole life is built around eating and drinking well. Quality is the name of the game and they don’t tend to, as a whole, shove a load of cheap crap down their necks. Yes, you can buy very cheap wine in the supermarkets and the British expats buy and consume it by the case load. The French would never think to serve it to a guest.