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Yeah, you all definitely have... 8 or maybe 9 edible things that aren't beer or curry.
All the same, I'd rather have a full English breakfast than 90% of French food and 98% of German food. Kidneys in cream, or raw pork crackers, or bread and cheese like they invented it or whatever.
Very ignorant take because everything a full English offers is also very German. This includes the pig blood which isn't french but you probably didn't think of that anyway.
English are a kind of German
Branding and beans for breakfast. That's why the English get the win here, which is also occasionally called a full Irish breakfast if there's no Brits looking. Plus, the English hardly have any indigenous culinary variety or spices. Why else colonize with such a passion?
And I'm actually very much ok with black pudding, that's not the issue. I don't like northern French cuisine because it's just "how much butter and cream can we pump into this snail or these poor mushrooms or a potato that was fine all on its own? Can we drown this perfectly mediocre cut of beef in cream and butter to make it seem fancy?" I'm far more partial to living below the butter/olive oil border. Southern France on the sea is tolerable, they're also below the border.
French cooking is cheap peasant foods with lipstick applied and loads of makeup to try and cover up that fact.
Butter is the caked on foundation. Cream the 12 coats of eyeliner. This is the perfect simile.
Snails are not a northern France thing though (unless you have a loose definition of north). It's mostly central, with a huge correlation with tourist hotspots
They confused Central French with Northern French, but it's true that classic French cuisine, both northern and central, use too much dairy.
I mean I love France with all my being, but there's no denying the use of cream and butter (or cheese in Northern French cuisine.
I guess you’re not into bread, because Germans have incredible bread
The French have good bread as well. Not as good as what we have in Italy of course, but well, they're doing their best!
I dunno, the last baguette I ate tasted like pain.
I left the 2% for pretzels, sausage, and Haribo gummies.
And Italians also make bread, you'll notice they're not on the exclusion list.
Yeah, but Italian bread and German bread…
Germans make pasta too, but I’m not talking about maultaschen here
Italians make bread without salt... Bah!
That's just the Tuscans
They sure like talking about their bread a lot. No one beyond their borders understands why however.
That’s what I thought until I started working at a German bakery. Now I’m converted (as someone who isn’t from here and grew up with fresh home baked sourdough every day). You should try more of it.
Germans have roughly one kind of bread that they're very good at.
Germany has tons of Turkish immigrants, but Germans won't buy pita bread unless they're getting a doner. They share a massive border with France but mostly ignore delicious French breads like croissants, baguettes, etc. They're right near Italy but you won't find much focaccia. Forget about naan, bagels, bao, corn bread, crumpets, injera, etc.