Marketing makes ppl think French food is amazing. The bread is killer, the meat is good, cheese is great. Went to restaurants in Lyon and had Ranch food, whose name I can't recall. And It was great, sweet breads, river pike, and inteston, all family style. But that was only one restaurant, everywhere else was bad or just meh.
Aged cheeses are common throughout the Caucasus and Middle East, as is bread. Sausages are made practically everywhere. Truffles are found throughout the Middle East and China, just not the specific European kind.
France is just an extension of Mediterranean cooking, maybe with milder flavors due to the climate.
most French/South European things aren't unique to Europe but rather pan-Mediterranean, and if you subtract them from the equation there's literally nothing that defines European cuisine. Other than lingonberries
A famous French dish is just "Chicken cooked in wine".
That's it. That's the whole thing. I think "French Cuisine" only became a thing in the US because US Anglos had literally the worst food culture in the world, consisting entirely of various kinds of baked biscuits and tinned formaldehyde laden beef up until like the 1960s.
Lyon has plenty good restaurants, fancy and not fancy. The countryside around it is some of the tastiest in the whole country. You admit it was very good. You made bad choices otherwise, not Lyon's fault.
French food culture is just alcoholism, they’re just better at marketing than most of Europe when it comes to food and they’ve built a fake reputation of being fancy
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Marketing makes ppl think French food is amazing. The bread is killer, the meat is good, cheese is great. Went to restaurants in Lyon and had Ranch food, whose name I can't recall. And It was great, sweet breads, river pike, and inteston, all family style. But that was only one restaurant, everywhere else was bad or just meh.
I think they mean formal style French cuisine, which is pretty good if not particularly representative of what the French eat from day to day.
There's formal style cuisines in basically every place that had large civilizations. Huaiyang cuisine, also just Peking Duck are examples
Sohan Papdi is basically Marathi (Indian) cotton candy made before cotton candy was invented
Aged cheeses are common throughout the Caucasus and Middle East, as is bread. Sausages are made practically everywhere. Truffles are found throughout the Middle East and China, just not the specific European kind.
France is just an extension of Mediterranean cooking, maybe with milder flavors due to the climate.
most French/South European things aren't unique to Europe but rather pan-Mediterranean, and if you subtract them from the equation there's literally nothing that defines European cuisine. Other than lingonberries
Mediterranean food is great though. Thus so is the French-specific incarnation of it as you say
A famous French dish is just "Chicken cooked in wine".
That's it. That's the whole thing. I think "French Cuisine" only became a thing in the US because US Anglos had literally the worst food culture in the world, consisting entirely of various kinds of baked biscuits and tinned formaldehyde laden beef up until like the 1960s.
Coq au vin is very good made right. And one dish of many. What about all the pastry. This is a dumb reddit take
Lyon has plenty good restaurants, fancy and not fancy. The countryside around it is some of the tastiest in the whole country. You admit it was very good. You made bad choices otherwise, not Lyon's fault.
French food culture is just alcoholism, they’re just better at marketing than most of Europe when it comes to food and they’ve built a fake reputation of being fancy
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