Did he ever have "it"?
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Did he ever have "it"?
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
I heard an extra part of the story.
Putin apparently suggested that the hamburger was the worst food ever.
Chirac, however, denied this.
Could Chirac's defence of the burger have something to do with Steak Haché being, basically, a hamburger?
Steak Hache:
"You need reasonably good beefsteak- it doesn't have to be rump steak but it should be a good cut of beef such as sirloin. Haché just means minced or chopped finely. If you have a mincer this will do the job, if not freezing the meat and then defrosting it a bit so that it is not quite rock hard will enable you to shave wafer thin slices off it with a knife- it's hard work but it works. Do not use 'mince' no matter what the butcher claims unless you have selected the right sort of meat yourself and seen it go into the mincer- ordinary butcher's mince beef is not nearly good enough for this.
You can just form the meat into 4 ounce patties. Adventurous souls will want to season them with salt & pepper and mix in a little very finely chopped onion and other flavourings of your own devising. The best way of cooking them is to grill them out of doors on a charcoal fire, but you can do pretty well if you sear them in a very hot cast iron frying pan for 5 minutes on each side. In either case, the idea is to brown them well on the outside but leave them rare inside. They are not meant to be well done all through. Serve in a bread roll, or as the French do with just chips."
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Nobody has mentioned how the conversation began. Chirac started the whole ball rolling with the comment "The only thing the English have ever given world cuisine is mad cow disease".
I don't think 'lost it' is an appropriate analysis. He's going for an 'us versus them' argument, and he's trying to align Schroeder & Putin on his side. Chirac told Blair there was going to be dire consequences for supporting the United States, regardless of whether the UK joined the EU or not. Slyly using schoolboy humor to relegate the UK beef industry to quarantine status would just be the first step.
Expect much more, not less.
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Re: Has Chirac lost it?
He's lost it... bigtime
"One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad." says Mr Chirac.
So he's not just insulting British food but the British people too...
Our cuisine is bad? Well I'd rather have fish and chips than dine on slimey garden
pests and pondlife...
Makes the blood boil...
English? Your country needs you!
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Chirac is just acting like an idiot to try and draw attention away from the fact that a) France is one of the main reasons Africa is still a bit of mud with all of their farm subsidies, b) no one likes him or his German counterpart, including their own countries, and c) he has nothing useful to actually say.
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Well the gallic twerp has had his knickers in a twist ever since the French said 'non' ....and has been said, if he wasn't Mr. Prezz he'd prolly be in gaol ... so lets seee.....
'I ave eet...I weel zu Bliar...mon dieu...mes enfants oui? ...zen ze Frunch ell forgive an vote fur moi ...non?'
He's a pathetic disgrace...and may I add if I was a Frenchman I would be insulted at his blatant attempt to steer away from the referendum fiasco.
Vive la France
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Hmm. Never eaten English food. However, I'm sure eating bugs somewhere would be worse. Besides, I like scones, so there.
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Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Definitively, the worse buffoon we ever have. He's just good enough to let France in decay and wait next vote for the President.
I just want to tell him : Taste a roost lemp with mint sauce(not a joke taste and like), and stop drinking corona.
Anyway, I don't think is the right way to build a strong and modern Europa.
Just my penny
Sorry for my French
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
when i went to england i was just there for a week but i´m sure i lost a bit of weight......
english food wasn´t really "bad", if i had to defined it i´d use the worlds "bland","tasteless" come to mind...
word to the british cooks....pick up a dictionary....look up the word "seasoning", and for the love of god starting using some.
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Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Actually you are quite wrong with this. The polls for Schröder are still quite good (certainly better than for his party). If we had a pure personality (like for the presidents in France or the US) election, he would still have a pretty good chance of winning.Originally Posted by BDC
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
OI...Cleggy .....ffs .....
WARNING...profanity is progress
Just having a laff
Last edited by InsaneApache; 07-05-2005 at 20:42.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
Uhm ... is there anything you would like to tell us or do you disagree with what I posted?OI...Cleggy .....ffs .....
WARNING...profanity is progress
Just having a laff
Last edited by Ser Clegane; 07-05-2005 at 21:05.
Re: Has Chirac lost it?
I don't mind the reference to English food - who are we trying to fool? - but linking it to the idea of a "perfidious Albion" is barmy. Aside from any offence, the linkage seems inane. Are Indians supposed to be moral paragons because their cooking is exquisite? And the implication would seem to be that the poor Finns are the most untrustworthy characters in Europe[1].
[1]My limited knowledge of Finnish society is that it is rather admirable, with strong social bonds of trust and cooperation forged through the need to survive a harsh environment.
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