The Country in Europe With The Best Food an Culture Is Surley

[Louis VI the Fat]

No more fries for you, traitor!

Fries? French fries?

A French invention, which some Belgian nationalists try to claim is theirs.

[Don Corleone]

Fries? French fries?

A French invention, which some Belgian nationalists try to claim is theirs.

I seem to remember that back in 2004 when the whole foolish subject of "Freedom Fries" arose, you and your countrymen wanted no parts of claiming this product. Apparently somebody has taken Msr. Sarkozy's appeal to "reclaim French culture, real or imagined around the globe" to heart.

As for the O.P. I would like to offer a vote for Spain. Their cuisine & cultural contributions, while fantastic, are admittedly close on the heels of France and Italy. However, the 3rd dimension of higher living, the beauty of their beauties... Penelope Cruz alone carries the day for Espana.

[Vuk]

lol, I will agree that Italy has the best food in Europe (followed closely by Greece), but as far as culture goes...sorry. :P

[Peasant Phill]

I would say Belgium but I would hate all you savages overrunning this paragon of culture and cuisine.

But serious, a lot of European countries/regions have there own rich identity which you can love for certain reasons. (can't speak much for other countries).

[Louis VI the Fat]

I would say Belgium but I would hate all you savages overrunning this paragon of culture and cuisine.

Belgium is fantastic! A fabulous extention of Northern French civilisation.


See this is why France is superior to Italy. We have got everything that the south offers, all of the food, the dolce vita, the sunshine. The products that grow in the mediterranean lands, with its harsh topsoils and unlimited sunshine. But unlike Italy, we also have the muddy clay of the north, its grey skies. The butter and the meat of Picardie in the north, the orchards of Normandy in the northwest, the Atlantic seafoods of Brittany.



They don't have this in Italy

[Husar]

And I was already wondering what kind of country "Surley" is....

[Don Corleone]

Isn't that last photo Biltmore House in Asheville, NC Louis? No fair stealing our architecture to fill your portfolio.

[Megas Methuselah]

lol, I will agree that Italy has the best food in Europe (followed closely by Greece), but as far as culture goes...sorry. :P

Oh. I thought you were a fan of fast food and freedom fries.

[gaelic cowboy]

The castle now belongs to fashion designer Pierre Cardin.

Ye mean the fella who makes those rubbish shirts no self respecting fashionista would wear at all at all

[Vuk]

Oh. I thought you were a fan of fast food and freedom fries.

lol, I am a fan of the Hardees menu, but that does not mean that I cannot appreciate other foods as well. If I had to compare the greatest foods in the world, I think that the list would be something like this:
Italian
{Greek
Tie
{Hardees menu
Indian
Korean

"VUK! How can you put American fast food on the same level with the high class cuisines of those other countries?!"
That is simple. If you are talking about how healthy a food is, American fast food would be at the bottom of all that I listed. I am, however talking about taste alone. It is hard to argue that fancy European cuisine tastes better than an Original Hardees Thickburger.

[Cute Wolf]

French : Ortolan Bunting and Escargot.... looks tasty

[Fragony]

Belgium has the best food.

[Fragony]

eh how did this happen doublepost. If we are talking about cuisine Belgium pwns all. Best food in general, the Netherlands we have all the cuisines in the world. In my street alone I got two Italians, 1 greek, 2 tapas restaurants, one French, one Spanish, one Arab, and a few that are a bit of everything.

[Louis VI the Fat]

For those who feel the need to make French jokes - I shall smite you with pictures so stunning you will beg for mercy before the end of this thread. This earth has more beauty than your eyes can bear...more than your heart dares to dream about...

Ye mean the fella who makes those rubbish shirts no self respecting fashionista would wear at all

No, not Lacoste, the brand founded by the French tennis legend. Pierre Cardin, the great 1960s/70s designer.

I seem to remember that back in 2004 when the whole foolish subject of "Freedom Fries" arose, you and your countrymen wanted no parts of claiming this product. Apparently somebody has taken Msr. Sarkozy's appeal to "reclaim French culture, real or imagined around the globe" to heart.

As for the O.P. I would like to offer a vote for Spain. Their cuisine & cultural contributions, while fantastic, are admittedly close on the heels of France and Italy. However, the 3rd dimension of higher living, the beauty of their beauties... Penelope Cruz alone carries the day for Espana.

Let's leave it at the knowledge that Belgium is but a renegade province of French civilisation.


Spain - good one! Spain is hot on the heels of both France and Italy. Indeed, Spain's awakening gives it a certain hip edge over the two established giants.
My hot tip though is Portugal, to me the finest part of Iberia.



Speaking of Spain, did you know that France's Southwest is quite Iberian in culture? That is the big difference with Italy. Italy is just Mediterranean, with a tiny bit Alpine. France, by contrast, is the whole of Europe in one country. Southern and Northern. Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Béarn, near Lescun, in France's southwest, of which Spain's lush northwest is an extention. Complete with donkeys like the ones Don Quichotte would've ridden:




France's southeast south then, of which Spain's northeast is an extention. The town of Collioure, a French Catalan speaking town, the local chateau is seventh century visigothic:

[Tellos Athenaios]

For those who feel the need to make French jokes

*insert obligatory French joke here*

you will beg for mercy ask for more before the end of this thread. This earth has more beauty than your eyes can bear...more than your heart dares to dream about...

Bring it on!