Three pricks met before G8. Chirac, Schroeder and Putin.
From the BBC. They were talking about the UK:
“The three men met on Sunday for celebrations to mark the 750th anniversary of the founding of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Koenigsberg, an exclave of Russia surrounded by Poland and Lithuania.
“The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease,” Mr Chirac said, according to the newspaper’s report.
“After Finland, it is the country with the worst food.”
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What fucking dickheads! NO country has the worst food. You make do with what you’ve got. Not everyone can provide their farmers with dickhead CAP.
You can eat anything in Finland that you want, if you are ready to pay for it. Any food in the world. Well cooked, well presented, well served. And in the best hygienic kitchens. (Parma please note)
But we live in the North. Not everything grows or lives here. Rather than have planes fly in our luxuries every day, we make do with what we’ve got.
I can take any visitor to Finland (and I have quite a few) on a culinary trip equal to any in the world. But I don’t take them there. I take them to the basic kitchen of Finland. And they love it.
“This is the food my mother used to make” is the best and most perfect, and frequent answer.
The dickheads couldn’t boil an egg. They’ve been served all their life, by people trying to impress them. They do not understand what food is. A celebration of the life and abundance around them. Wherever you are.
No wonder the EU will never work, while the dickheads live in a world divorced from reality.
(though I must admit that Pizza is a very popular food here)
RogueTrooper over at European Tribune has a story on the same subject. It is flabbergasting that a Head of State would make such indiscrete remarks within earshot of reporters.
Sven, before I read another word I hope you will take out the C word which women find extremely offensive, as I for one do, to see it used in any context….
Diane – you endorsed that slogan above. Lighten up : I was very very angry. “What is sauce for the goose, is source ior the gander”
The knee-jerk reaction is what we are fighting against…
I endorsed the ‘don’t be a prick’ and so now I am being one when I asked to have the offensive C word removed, really I don’t think so. Do we need to get in a discussion about certain words, such as the N word, or the F word, ….Knee jerk reaction, no, I simply don’t like the use of the C word in any context and will say so whenever I see it written here. I don’t like the P, F or N word either, but I draw the line at the C and N word. The C word is just as insulting to women as the N word is to us all and when applied to men is even more offensive.
And I as a women am fighting to have that word removed from the language and else where that I may see. Impossible task I suppose, but still I will speak up.
In any case I am glad you found a gender appropriate replacement word even if it is on my list of less offensive words.
You have every right to write such words I suppose if you cannot think of another more suitable word, but still I reserve the right to object..
I still love ya all in all.
You have every right to object personally, but no right to object semantically. You endorsed P so you are stuck with C, if anyone feels compelled to use it.
I rarely swear in IRL, but I was so incensed, much like someone hitting my thumb with a hammer.
Words are always in context. BT is a very wide context. Culture includes lots of things. There is almost no swearing in native american. In Europe, swearing is tolerated (richness of colloquial speech), but not condoned. In my EU hippy generation judgement of speech was and is totally irrelevant – especially sexual epithets. The use of them proclaimed genderlessness.
I note that you posted 3 pictures a while back. You called them your ‘favourites’ Each was of a gentle maiden carrying flowers in an ‘idylllic setting’ somewhat recalling a kind of kitsch 17th, 18th century. Lost innocence perhaps…
Perhaps you would also understand that I consider the promotion of that kind of naivity as equally offensive to me, as my use of the C word is to you.
It is merely personal, subjective. One of a hundred different views. I agree that BT requires a ‘puréed’ view of world culture – but in the purée, no taste or scent will remain supreme.
Such is the TRUE nature of this planet’s evolution.
double oh Sven, How did I endorse the use of the P word, first of all and second of all the pics you reference were ones where we were finding our special place to go in our minds for meditation, not m favorite pics, ever and even if they were what difference does that make.
I fail how the use of the C word, can be compared to the pics. in any case, of our equally offensed feelings.
I guess it is all in the audience isn’t it Sven, for your Finish audience is can be appropriate, but to this Diane audience in America it is inappropriate, offensive and out of line. To American women it is very often considered the most reprehensible of all possible words to use in describing them or anyone else, it is not used lightly. I have lost friends over their insistence on using this word, and have never tolerated it directed at me personally.
It is very demeaning to women, just as the N. word is to blacks,and it suggests that the center of our very feminity is somehow foul and disgusting and can be hurled at another as an invective.
Talk about naive. . .I didn’t even know that we weren’t supposed to use the “C” word. . . What the Fig?
I don’t personally like to use the “C” word, and it does feel offensive to me, but I thought that was just a personal thing. . .
Who knew that “Cantaloupe” was such a hot topic!
Let’s do a run down so no one makes a mistake. . .
Fig, figger, and figging = not acceptable
Cantaloupe, figging cantaloupe, Prune figging cantaloupe = not acceptable
Prune, don’t be a Prune, you figging Prune= not acceptable.
Wheeeew. . .Okay, I have been linguistically corrected and properly chastised, I will keep it clean from now on.
We have taken care of The F, C and P words!
Thanks. . .you guys are so much darn fun.
Umm, Sven, umm- hemming and hawing here- I have to apologize for all of the bad jokes I have made throughout my adult life about Finnish Food. Are you saying that my Grammy was just a really really bad cook? And was Grampy just a saint for not complaining? See we always thought it was the “Finnish Food”- everything overcooked (preferably boiled) with way too much salt. See as a Finnish-American when I think Finnish Food, I don’t really think Yummy. And if I say “just like my grandmother used to make” it is not a compliment. Sometime I will look you up when I get to my ancestral homeland and you can introduce me to real Finn Food.
You are right – in a historical context. Summer, then, was alive. Winter was DEAD. To survive you had to put vegetables in the +4C root cellar, and everything else was salted, dried or pickled. Those were the only methods of preservation known. If you didn’t use these methods you were DEAD. If you didn’t chop enough wood in the autumn, you were DEAD.
If an arctic bird leaves the nest to find food and spends more energy finding the food than it gets from the food, it is DEAD. It is called the Energy Balance.
Your grandparents were not celebrating bad food, they were celebrating survival.
Nowadays planes fly into Finland whatever food we want. We celebrate diversity rather then survival. But in the background – in Finland, as anywhere else – the Energy Balance still applies.
This will apply more and more in the future.
it’s runs with a block of cooking shows on our local pbs station. the host’s name is Andreas Viestad. he travels through scandinavian countries and sets up impromptu kitchens/cook stations in various spots… most of them outdoors… and just starts cooking. i love this show! part travel, part food.
chirac doesn’t know what he’s missing. it’s simple and interesting food. the host does things beautifully and i’m guessing authentically. until i watched this show i had no idea about scandinavian cooking.
I’ve been to Finland a couple of times, and I loved the food! Most of the meals I enjoyed were in nicer hotels and restaurants, but I also ate in family homes and a youth hostel, and really enjoyed the cuisine.
Does Finnish Food share anything in common with Danish food?
I was in Solvang, CA for the 4th of July. It was at one time a region occupied by Danish immigrants, but now it has become a kitschy tourist attraction. One authentic thing you can find there though is aebleskiver, a Danish pancake that looks like a donut hole but tastes much better (less grease, more egg). My English boyfriend thought it was alot like Yorkshire pudding, so yes there are some good things to eat in England!
Aebleskiver is traditionally served with powdered sugar and jam, but there is no reason why you could not come up with a savory variety.
Of course, I had to buy an aebleskiver pan:
Can’t wait to try it out!