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Is France a banana republic?

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  • L Lost User

    :laugh: nice I've never been in Paris (or any other major city) But yea the food.. lol German food is cool though IMO, and I go there a lot too :)

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    Oh. Nice, not Nice. Got confused for a second. German food runs from ok to good. French food sucks. Belgian food is stinky*. Romanian food is very good. I don't remember English food...just spent a day or two in Beaulieu and can't recall a thing about it. *As near as I can tell, dinner in Brussels consists of throwing everything they caught that day into the pot, stew it and hope for the best.

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    • F fjdiewornncalwe

      Who cares. Their food is pretty darn awesome.

      I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.

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      Yeah, that is true. I had a really nice three course meal with wine and coffee for 19 euros last weekend.

      Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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      • L Lost User

        So you like snails and parts of animals that you shouldn't eat and an incredibly tiny meal they spent 3 hours on - all that only after 10pm and god forbid you're hungry around 7 you'll be lucky if you can still order from the lunch menu?

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        WHereas Dutch food is?...

        Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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          Haakon S. wrote:

          But we are cultivated enough to let our parlimentary representatives decide our politics for us

          But what if they decide to do policies that are against what the People want ? it's an unalienable right to speak against the government. You should go to the street once in a while.

          Watched code never compiles.

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          Maximilien wrote:

          But what if they decide to do policies that are against what the People want ?

          Do you really mean that the situation in France now is the way to go? I understand that a majority actually agree with the government. France is a true democracy, which means that the people should speak by voting. I can not see that anything good comes out of the street protests.

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            WHereas Dutch food is?...

            Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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            Usually not bad, if you avoid the overly fancy places

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            • L Lost User

              Usually not bad, if you avoid the overly fancy places

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              Actually I ate one of the best meals in my life in Vlissingem. But there is lots of plain food. Anyone whose national dish is chicon gratine hasnt got much to offer! (Gebaked witloof)

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                Actually I ate one of the best meals in my life in Vlissingem. But there is lots of plain food. Anyone whose national dish is chicon gratine hasnt got much to offer! (Gebaked witloof)

                Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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                I didn't know a poor dish like that was considered the nation dish! :omg: Who still eats that stuff?? The old Dutch recipes are worthless of course, fallen out of fashion and for good reason :)

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                  I didn't know a poor dish like that was considered the nation dish! :omg: Who still eats that stuff?? The old Dutch recipes are worthless of course, fallen out of fashion and for good reason :)

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                  harold aptroot wrote:

                  Who still eats that stuff??

                  My Dutch brother in law for one. But its also the most well known dish in Flanders (and I like it myself on occasion, in the UK we have a similar dish done with leeks (prei in Dutch I believe). So what is in your opinion then a classic Dutch dish? (And dont say Schnitzel please!)

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                    harold aptroot wrote:

                    Who still eats that stuff??

                    My Dutch brother in law for one. But its also the most well known dish in Flanders (and I like it myself on occasion, in the UK we have a similar dish done with leeks (prei in Dutch I believe). So what is in your opinion then a classic Dutch dish? (And dont say Schnitzel please!)

                    Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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                    Gebakken witlof would be one, and various stamppotten, but such things are rarely found at restaurants (and if you're just going order something like that, you might as well stay home)

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                      Gebakken witlof would be one, and various stamppotten, but such things are rarely found at restaurants (and if you're just going order something like that, you might as well stay home)

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                      So steak with kroketjes, kabailau with kroketjes... :) I found this menu for a place in maastricht, http://www.hofvanhuntjens.nl/hofvanhuntjens.nl/MENU.html[^] looks like deer stew with stamppot, fish with sauteed potatoes. Sounds pretty much like what we used to get in Leuven a lot, and it was pretty good stuff for the most part.

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                      • L Lost User

                        So steak with kroketjes, kabailau with kroketjes... :) I found this menu for a place in maastricht, http://www.hofvanhuntjens.nl/hofvanhuntjens.nl/MENU.html[^] looks like deer stew with stamppot, fish with sauteed potatoes. Sounds pretty much like what we used to get in Leuven a lot, and it was pretty good stuff for the most part.

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                        modified on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 6:57 AM

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                        Something like that :)

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