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In heaven the cooks are Italian, the lovers are French, the mechanics are German, the police are British, and it's all organized by the Swiss. (In hell the coo
by mauvehaus 2y ago
In heaven the cooks are Italian, the lovers are French, the mechanics are German, the police are British, and it's all organized by the Swiss.
(In hell the cooks are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, the police are German, and it's all organized by the Italians.)
- UIUC_06 2y ago[dead]
- robertlagrant 2y agoSounds like in hell you get your food cooked by Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver, with dessert by Mary Berry. Could be worse.
- samirillian 2y agoHave you actually tasted their food or just looked at pictures of it on the internet.
- robertlagrant 2y agoI haven't done either. Which do you do?
- VBprogrammer 2y agoThe best part of British food is that we're incredibly good at adopting all of the worlds cuisines' as our own. I remember being at the Belgian GP and literally you could have chips with various shaped sausage and one pizza place hiding at the back. At the British GP you could eat some variant (admittedly, probably not the best variant) of pretty much every cuisine you could imagine. Even in our supermarkets if you want to make a Paella or Peri Peri chicken you'll find all of the ingredients you need. If you go to a Spain it's really hard to find Peri Peri and if you go to France you'll struggle to find ingredients for a Paella.
- nobodyandproud 2y agoAfter an excursion to London many years ago (from USA), I reported to my coworkers that the food was great. I received the strangest looks from the British-ex pats. I still think the food was quite good, though thinking back I don’t think I sampled the “native” British cuisine.
- vizzier 2y agoTo be fair, London is one of the most cosmopolitan and international cities in the world. The rest of the UK isn't quite so much like that.
- _0ffh 2y agoI have many times visited friends in England, and I find their traditional home cooking to be quite nice. Maybe it's a teensy bit underspiced at times, but I am not averse to actually be able to taste the natural aromas of the bulk ingredients. I admit that it may not be on the level of some of the traditional Italian home cooking I have tasted, but that would be a very tall order indeed.
- samirillian 2y agoYeah I can agree with you that perhaps many countries have cuisine we consider bad because countries just do their best and they can't all be Italy or the Szechuan Province. I don't agree that because of the British Empire their food is good. They had the British Empire long enough to prove or disprove that claim. I've visited England 5-ish times. I love it. But I've personally encountered some true Curry monstrosities over there. And Abominable fish and chips. I have fond memories of eating marzipan. MOREOVER, Gordon Ramsay making dog-food egg mush and calling it scrambled has criminally misled a whole generation of youtube-addicted hipsters. I can't tell you how many times I've heard some random Millenial describe his exact, twisted method and inevitably I learn they've watched this exact video. Okay, twice. But I don't blame the English, I blame the internet, which confuses our senses. > https://youtu.be/UXtrScuC30E?feature=shared&t=202 https://youtu.be/UXtrScuC30E?feature=shared&t=202 Now these are some eggs > https://youtu.be/a-GFimGcYJw?feature=shared&t=97 https://youtu.be/a-GFimGcYJw?feature=shared&t=97
- estebank 2y agoAnyone complaining about British food has never eaten Dutch "cuisine". After having lived in both countries I'll always defend the Brits when it comes to food.
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- sandworm101 2y agoJames May bettered Gordon Ramsay in a practical cooking competition. The gearhead from TopGear baked the better fish pie. And on Ramsay's own cooking show no less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPmLwW1-PA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPmLwW1-PA
- jasonjei 2y ago“Hell’s Kitchen”
- idatum 2y agoQuote from Harry Lime character in The Third Man: "...in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y agoI think Euler by himself competes pretty well with all that on behalf of the Swiss.
- philshem 2y agoFWIW, cuckoo clocks originated in the Black Forest, southern Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock But it reminds me of the famous quote from Bertrand Russell > My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others. (Bertrand Russell / 1872-1970 / Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? / 1930) http://atheisme.free.fr/Quotes/Russell.htm http://atheisme.free.fr/Quotes/Russell.htm
- blargey 2y agoParaphrased from other Internet threads where that quote came up: Something about their mercenary army, the Swiss Guard, Euler, Einstein, the Bernoulli family, 28 Nobel laureates, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swiss_inventions_and_discoveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swiss_inventions_and_d...
- chucke1992 2y agogreat quote
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y agoI think the food and climate of England were a huge driver of British Imperial expansion. The elite were desperate to get out and so the British always had a large supply of soldiers and administrators for their colonies (until they were decimated in WWI).
- watwut 2y agoNo. Swiss arw not good at organizing stuff. Source: I worked in a Swiss company. It was not well organized at all.
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