Culinary Map Of Europe According To France (2015)

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.
- seems Olivier was French/belgian as his name entail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Olivier
  I suppose he was of franco-belgian descent, but he was born in Russia, raised in Russia, died in Russia, and invented his salad in Russia as a chief of a russian restaurant.
  Even the french agree: "Lucien Olivier est un chef russe d'origine franco-belge" - from Wikipaedia.
  Also:
  "Nationalité - russe"

"The Vast Atlantic Ocean" is 😙🤌
- "😙🤌" is overrated though...
  
  Chef's kiss is overrated?
- Cruel, heartless, totally deserved. Appropriate friendly banter.
- What do you mean? That's just reality, isn't it?
  
  Some say there are islands there that have food without flavour.

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

Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties

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
- Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.
  The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.
  
  The meatball thing came from Ikea 100%
- 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
  
  Here it is for anyone curious: https://atlasofprejudice.com/
  Their mostly tongue-in-cheek like this one.

What's with the Health Hazard?
- Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

I think this belongs more in !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee
But I chuckled so thanks for sharing

"Ice cube salad"?
Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can't even make jokes about it.
- "You like black licorice? We can fix that."
  
  I craaaave salmiakki sometimes. Keep a stash on hand for those times. Delicious stuff.
- Uuuhh... the starvation bark bread? I think there was a reindeer meat pizza that won some award.
  Whatever, our own one thing is a vaguely modified American dish, and comes from Quebec, so you're not alone.
  
  That's not cuisine, that's a dish. It's a Finnish dish, but the cuisine is technically Italian.
  We don't have a cuisine in the same way in the North as mainland Europe does. Like do you know what the national dish of Finland is? Karjalanpaisti, Karelian stew. Which when traditionally made, has the following ingredients ONLY; beef cubes, pork cubes, a mildly salted pot of water.
  Heat for several hours.
  That's it.
  Like people joke about how bland British food is but it's literally on fire compared to our traditional dishes. Like a shepherd's pie made with a red wine and even bland-ish British spices would be absolutely gorgeous compared to Karelian stew.
  I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

"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.
- Authentic Italian pizza was apparently invented before the circle.

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.
- 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
- 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.
  
  Name a French dish superior to Chicken Tikka Masala.
- I agree. But we don’t get recognised. I couldn’t be more amused.
  
  I'm amused too, I just felt the need to point that out.
- The best restaurants I've ever been to have been in London. But, then, they rarely serve "traditional" English food. Dollar for dollar, the food in London is better than the food in Paris.
  Outside of London - sorry, I agree with the map. English cuisine has a few of things they do better than anyone else, but the meals have not impressed me. I can't speak for the rest of the UK; I haven't visited Scotland or Ireland, and only drove a few miles in Wales by accident.
  However. I will fight anyone for a Cornish pasty. I don't know where they were invented, but like all great foods they're both delicious and made with, like, 6 ingredients.
  My credentials include more than a single trip. I've had 4 vacations in France, and 2 years lived for 2 weeks every other month in Paris. I've had two vacations in England, and lived for 1-2 weeks every month in London, again for two years running. I have a great amount of experience with restaurants at all price ranges in both cities, and a reasonable exposure to cuisine outside of the capitals.

LOL, that's funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.
- They can’t even make wine as good as you can. They shouldn’t even think to criticize the food
  
  Well, I can't make wine, for a starter. Additionally, rose wines from the south of France are delicious. Fuck nationalism, really. From my nation, in first place.

Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?
- Cake, maybe?
  
  Eat the rich
- A fillet of some kind.

This feels more like !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee!
- Thanks for mentioning, I didn't know about this. Just subbed!

It's ironic that they've missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.
- I supposed the joke was that non existent GB was that they dont even do cuisine
- Yeah, I was like: O no, the French dislike te British too much to even insult them? 😸

More like according an American person who identifies as French.

What's "soggy pastry" talking about?
- I'm more concerned about the fact that they think Austrians subsist on the corpse of a queen.
- I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest "Danish".

The French admit that ‘French fries’ are in fact Belgian? Sounds very un-French.
- The term French Fries was most likely coined by American GIs, the French never had anything to do with that
  
  pomme frites??
- I don't. I don't necessarily think they're French either tho, but France, Spain and Chile each have a better claim to it than Belgium.
- Yeah that's surprisingly one thing we all agree on

No such thing as too much pepper
- I can confirm there IS such a thing as too much Oregano though.

Every frenchperson who came to serbia eats like they have never tasted food before. Dunno
- They do that everywhere regardless, disregard.

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

if ćevapčići is famine food call me starved

Were the French always a bunch of pretentious elitist pricks or did that only start after some specific event?
Their food is good but it certainly isn't significantly better than many other places.
They still smoke like chimneys.
They are still pretty misogynistic.
They make terrible cars and pretty much all their manufacturing may as well have their quality control run by Helen Keller.
Their "world famous" city smells like piss and is a filthy mess (unless they decide to clean it up for something like the Olympics).
Their police are notorious for abusing their power and attempting to silence reporters or the media.
- You seem to be getting emotional over a joke cartoon and your own preconceptions.
  The truth is everyone around the world sucks about the same, and drawing broad generalities about millions based on memes and confirmation bias is ill-advised.
  
  No some people definitely suck more than others.
  For example: The French.
  Haha