First they attack our rebate and now our food!

He represents his own people, so when he says stuff like that it's going to create bitterness, especially when it's to the leaders of other countries.

He says something along the lines of "How can we trust a nation of people with such bad food?"

Oh yeah, well how can we trust a nation who continually twists the knife in our back?

I doubt you'd catch Tony saying anything like that within earshot of the public. That's just plain ignorant. I don't care about the food jibe, but he implied that British people are dishonest, which really gets me. He's supposed to be diplomatic, but his diplomacy fails here with his snide remarks.

Wanker.
 
Chirac is a ****, he's just trying to pull the attention away from the fact that his own country hates him, he failed to get the constitution through and that his own country is economically in trouble.

I love it how the French, Russians and the Germans are trying to portray us as dishonest and somehow unpleasant, when they've all got some of the worst global stereotypes going. People in Greece still dislike Germans, and are much more polite to a British tourist than a German. France, well, aren't they the least popular country in Europe? And Russia? Great, a country with populace who'd blame Americans for draining their lake!
 
Yeah but the only reason why france is the least popular country in europe is becasue the british don't consider themselfes part of europa, and thats the way we view you bloody bastards;) too. To a lot of eurotrash like me on the mainland you're just another extension of the US, snobbish and arrogant country that that doesn't want to participate in mainland business.
 
I disagree there. On the rebate, it's complete bullshit. I'd be happy to accept losing our rebate, if France were to make their farming fair to rest of Europe. Oh wait, France is in such a fragile state that removing that would destroy France's farming industry. It was a survey with UK on it that put France as least popular, too.
 
And we think Europe is a backwards place... (and you just proved it ;) )

Still I don't actually like French food. Give me Traditional English roast with yorkshire pud, or adopted english curry over anything the French have ever done :p

*edit* Both France and the USA had BSE, just didn't bother to say.
 
Grey Fox said:
Yeah but the only reason why france is the least popular country in europe is becasue the british don't consider themselfes part of europa, and thats the way we view you bloody bastards;) too. To a lot of eurotrash like me on the mainland you're just another extension of the US, snobbish and arrogant country that that doesn't want to participate in mainland business.
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As far as contributions as a percentage of GDP though we're still the sixth highest. That is a more than some other supposedly "pro-European" countries, like France. Not only that but these Farming subsidies and agricultural policies are causing far more problems than our rebate, at least as far as Africa is concerned.
 
Grey Fox said:
you're just another extension of the US, snobbish and arrogant country that that doesn't want to participate in mainland business.
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Not until Europe gets out of the Cold War and into the 21st century :p
 
see thius is what I mean, and you ask youirselfs why you are less liked then france, fact is france is atleast considers part of europe, the uk doesn't even have the euro, hell even you people here don't consider yourselfs european, I mean when there is a poll on this site I always see Uk and europe apart.

As far as contributions as a percentage of GDP though we're still the sixth highest. That is a more than some other supposedly "pro-European" countries, like France. Not only that but these Farming subsidies and agricultural policies are causing far more problems than our rebate, at least as far as Africa is concerned.
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so we pay the ****ing highest, you don't see us having a pissing contest, pussies.

Not until Europe gets out of the Cold War and into the 21st century
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comes from someone who lives in a country who's leader supporst the US conservatists which dream of going back to the cold war era, yeah we're the one who needs to come out of the cold war.
 
Dude, your food is probably the worst in the entire world. The very thought of fish 'n' ships makes me vomit, and your "breakfast" is a bloody joke.
 
English food is pretty good actually. Last fish and chips I had over there were greasy as hell though and gave me teh runz. Only reason france hates britain is cause britain <3 US, US <3 Britain.
 
Grey Fox said:
see thius is what I mean, and you ask youirselfs why you are less liked then france, fact is france is atleast considers part of europe, the uk doesn't even have the euro, hell even you people here don't consider yourselfs european, I mean when there is a poll on this site I always see Uk and europe apart.


so we pay the ****ing highest, you don't see us having a pissing contest, pussies.


comes from someone who lives in a country who's leader supporst the US conservatists which dream of going back to the cold war era, yeah we're the one who needs to come out of the cold war.
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When half the nations in the single currency want to move back to their own currency, it really tells you something.

And France has some of the worst food and traditional dishes the world has ever seen.

Britain, for traditional dishes, has Fish 'n' Chips, Curry and nice Roast Beef, or Roast Lamb or Roast Pork in a beautiful apple sauce.

France, for traditional dishes, has snails, horses, Bulls testicles and Frogs legs.

There was also a recent poll done by the EU that basically said that all EU countries see France as being the worst nation in Europe. Jacque Chirac has turned his back on the European constitution and blamed the French prime minister for its failure, and has gone with the popular vote. When a hardcore right party gets to be the second biggest party in a western country, you know something is seriously wrong.
 
gh0st said:
English food is pretty good actually. Last fish and chips I had over there were greasy as hell though and gave me teh runz. Only reason france hates britain is cause britain <3 US, US <3 Britain.
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British people aren't to fond of Americans either :E. But Fish 'n' Chips is traditionally served greasy, mmmmmmmmmmm.........beautiful.

The next time you come over, you should pop into an Indian restaurant and ask for a nice Chicken Vindaloo.
 
Razor said:
When half the nations in the single currency want to move back to their own currency, it really tells you something.

And France has some of the worst food and traditional dishes the world has ever seen.

Britain, for traditional dishes, has Fish 'n' Chips, Curry and nice Roast Beef, or Roast Lamb or Roast Pork in a beautiful apple sauce.

France, for traditional dishes, has snails, horses, Bulls testicles and Frogs legs.

There was also a recent poll done by the EU that basically said that all EU countries see France as being the worst nation in Europe. Jacque Chirac has turned his back on the European constitution and blamed the French prime minister for its failure, and has gone with the popular vote. When a hardcore right party gets to be the second biggest party in a western country, you know something is seriously wrong.
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Everyone in the world except yourself loathe it. That poll may be true, they we certainly not hate France because of their food.

It tastes like rutten vomits fried with the liquid from a horse's kidney.
 
I reckon Britians proposal is more than reasonable. The rebate for farm subsidies. Those subsidies prevent other farmers from even comming close to being able to compete.
 
Bahahaha


All this thread proves is that while we all like each other on a personal basis (were all agreeing arnt we?!) we fundimentaly hate each other!!! :cheers:
 
No, we love each other, but our politicians are manipulative fuuckwits!
 
Woo! We've gone from examining the fact that Chirac is an outmoded idiot who only got where he is today because the French were terrified of Le Pen getting into power to comparing every other nation unfavourably based on food! Woo I say!

...or was it the other way round? I can't remember how this thread started.

Of course Mr. Chirac has given a very good example of why so many Brits are anti-European- a lot of them have the misguided idea that our slightly-eastern neighbours have no idea what they're talking about, and bad politicians don't help matters.
 
wow, wow, stop. If you want to talk about bad food, you can't leave us out, I'm telling you. You do not know bad food untill you tasted dutch food.
Oh yeah and why is fish and chips so bad, my favoreite food is french(freedom)fries with makrel, and frietensaus or mayonaise.
 
I don't dislike the French people, just the French politicians who always seem to be buddying up with someone to put down someone else. Recently, it's France buddying up with Germany to bully Britain and a number of other EU countries as Germany and France have always seen themselves as being "at the heart of the European Community".
 
I love hating my neighbours. It's great.

And the reference to Europe being stuck in the cold war is that the EU hasn't reformed since its days when it was established to be a strong force against the East.

Anyway Chirac is still a twat. He should focus on his problems at home rather than blaming us Brits, and bringing our honesty into question on the grounds of culinary preferences.
 
Grey Fox said:
so we pay the ****ing highest, you don't see us having a pissing contest, pussies.
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Yes, you pay the most in and yet you reject the constitution. Is your country going to make up its mind or what? At least Britain has made its stance clear from the start.
 
All this bashing of food is complete twaddle. Some of the finest food in the world is French peasant food, while nothing is more satisfying before work than a good English breakfast, and nothing better suited to satisfy one's drunken munchies than a bag of fish and chips. It's just a pity that chippies are so rare in Newcastle.

Here we are in Britain eating Tripe and Black Pudding every day.

Britain didn't join the Euro not only because public opinion was mostly against it (people are still narked off wih decimilisation over here), but also but the government wasn't satisfied it was in our best interests. Say that's wrong if you want, but if _anyone_ knows about looking after No1 it's France. More power to her for looking after her people, but this attitude hasn't done too many favours for her reputation.

I don't see why some Britons are so anti-Europe; we fought beside France in two wars and nothing brings countries together like that. Of course, we were still probably pissed off with Napoleon, eh? Now we're probably more angered by that bloody twit Chirac.

I'd like to see Britain becoming more involved in the EU, especially Germany (Schröder seemed like a good politician from what little I saw), but I still feel that that the Euro was a bad idea - there are better ways to bring countries closer.
 
jonbob said:
Here we are in Britain eating Tripe and Black Pudding every day.
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I couldn't tell if you were being facetious here or not, though if you were being serious, just what century do you think this is? I certainly don't know anyone who eats Black Pudding and Tripe every day. Maybe in the past it was a big part of people's diets, but the variety of food in Britain today is astonishing.
 
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It's just a pity that chippies are so rare in Newcastle.
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Go East to the coast mate, or even better go up the coast for some great Fish n' Chips (best ones I had were in Seahouses). The ones in the city are pretty bad, but when you get to the fishing villages they have great eats.
 
kirovman said:
Go East to the coast mate, or even better go up the coast for some great Fish n' Chips (best ones I had were in Seahouses). The ones in the city are pretty bad, but when you get to the fishing villages they have great eats.
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Whitby rules for Fish and Chips, I go there often.
 
it's nice to see the anger deflected away from us americans sometimes, especially today on the fourth of july.
 
Southern food > everything else.

GG.
 
kirovman said:
Go East to the coast mate, or even better go up the coast for some great Fish n' Chips (best ones I had were in Seahouses). The ones in the city are pretty bad, but when you get to the fishing villages they have great eats.
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A bit difficult when you've had upwards of ten pints.
 
man that's a lot of lemonade...

seriously though, what do people consider French food?

The nation has somewhat of a reputation, but for what?
 
Yesterday I ate meatballs and herring, along with fresh potatoes, chives and lingonberry jam. :imu: Is there anything tastier in the world?
 
The chef of the Gleneagles Hotel is saying that he's going to try to change Chirac's mind about British food.
 
"The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease"

Now that's actually pretty funny...and true.
 
The_Monkey said:
"The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease"

Now that's actually pretty funny...and true.
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Heh, when all Sweden has done for Europe is porn and bad dance music?
 
When France had its own outbreak of mad cow, then illiegally tried to block our beef when it was declared safe, just so he could protect the plushy French farmers.

He is le worm
 
mortiz said:
Heh, when all Sweden has done for Europe is porn and bad dance music?
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OMG. It'z FUNNY and TRUE. lol.

Edit: Mad Cow Disease isn't only limited to the UK.
 
mortiz said:
Yes, you pay the most in and yet you reject the constitution. Is your country going to make up its mind or what? At least Britain has made its stance clear from the start.
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you didn't even have a vote, pussies.
 
Well we did supply lots of construction material to europe after WW2.
 
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