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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 81 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"The Vast Atlantic Ocean" is πŸ˜™πŸ€Œ

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago

Cruel, heartless, totally deserved. Appropriate friendly banter.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you mean? That's just reality, isn't it?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some say there are islands there that have food without flavour.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Nah, that's just misinformation.

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[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Meh, "proper cuisine" is definitely accurate since it's our national pride, but most of the others don't really feel like french stereotypes. "Soggy pastry" for Denmark even sounds suspiciously american, I've never heard anyone say that about this country in France and I don't even know what it's referring to

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.

The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.

[–] felykiosa 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The meatball thing came from Ikea 100%

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We stole them bad boys from Turkey iirc.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

i mean maybe that's what made it well known outside sweden, but meatballs are also a bog standard thing inside sweden.
Meatballs with mashed potatoes, gravy, and lingonberries is the "default food" basically, like fish and chips in the UK.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I took a look at the website this is coming from, it seems to be mostly the blog author's interpretation of what the stereotypes are for each of their maps

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[–] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago

I think this belongs more in !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee

But I chuckled so thanks for sharing

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in the UK. I can't think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree. But we don’t get recognised. I couldn’t be more amused.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm amused too, I just felt the need to point that out.

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know it's part of your transition period and are forced by law to continue the 100 year war on a culinary manner.

I'd say that the proper French culinary colonialist equivalent to the Tikka Massala is the Bahn Mi sandwhich and that feels like a proper match for it.

But now come up with a dish that doeesn't take any inspiration from former colonies and I think most of them can be beaten by a simple onion soup

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can’t think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.

you're insulting yourself and CTM more than french cuisine there mate.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"inventors" is the best diss i've ever seen for modern swedish food

i asked a friend from italy what she thought about our pizza and she basically said "as long as i don't think of it as pizza it's fine"

she and her bf would regularly hang out with the guy who ran the only italian pizzeria in town and they would shit-talk our food for hours. mad respect.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

"Ice cube salad"?

Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can't even make jokes about it.

[–] mindbleach 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"You like black licorice? We can fix that."

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago
[–] andresil@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's ironic that they've missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.

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[–] shiny_idea@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's "soggy pastry" talking about?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm more concerned about the fact that they think Austrians subsist on the corpse of a queen.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest "Danish".

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[–] bricklove@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties

[–] Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The French admit that β€˜French fries’ are in fact Belgian? Sounds very un-French.

[–] EmoDuck 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The term French Fries was most likely coined by American GIs, the French never had anything to do with that

[–] pntha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

pomme frites??

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LOL, that's funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.

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[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Russians actually call russian salad "olivier", after the guy who made it, but it was invented in Russia by a man that was born there, so I am not sure you can say it is French.

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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Eat the rich

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

More like according an American person who identifies as French.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No such thing as too much pepper

I can confirm there IS such a thing as too much Oregano though.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

Technically the French call the puff pastries most countries seem to equate to typically French (the croissant f.i.) after Vienna. Those are called Vienoiseries

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's with the Health Hazard?

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Lol, the French cannot even make wine as good as Italians can and they think they can touch their food?

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