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French people do not really talk much about food. Sometimes with foreigners, because it's a bit of a cliché topic, and foreigners usually may want to talk about
by invaliduser 10y ago
French people do not really talk much about food. Sometimes with foreigners, because it's a bit of a cliché topic, and foreigners usually may want to talk about it, or as a way to chitchat with a foreigner (but between french people, this very rarely happens).
However, they talk a lot about wine, really a lot, and that is very boring when you don't drink.
As for food, it really depend on the restaurants, or event where you happened to be, but I wouldn't call french food «bad», it's usually ok or above ok.
Actually, I wouldn't call any country's food «bad», not to my taste maybe, or very different to what I'm used, but generalizing to bad a whole food culture, that's a bit harsh, and certainly unfair whatever the country.
- anothercomment 10y agoI'm sure you can get a lot of good food, it was just my personal experience, and my remark was meant to be humorous. I should also note that I don't like wine much, and I was a vegetarian when I was in French - not the best conditions for enjoying their food. Talking about food and wine all the time would quickly get boring to me, so I'd probably prefer the Sillicon Valley version in the long run.
- invaliduser 10y agoYou are so right. Try living in Bordeaux when you don't drink wine. It's awful, people wouldn't believe I didn't like the taste of wine. Not my fault, I just dislike it. French people would always try to convince me it's because I didn't tried their favorite brand, or thinking I didn't know the Bordeaux wine. Sometimes I even had to resort to telling them it was religious (which it's not) so they'd stop bothering me.