How stupid can incumbent French presidents be.

[DTCwordfan]

If this one is to be believed - why on earth do this with an election imminent - why not wait until you are re-elected.

It is almost as "daft as a broom with no bristles" as Chirac's comment in Singapore before the Olympics when he condemned "British, Dutch and Scandinavian cuisines, single handledly removing at least six nations from backing the Parisian vote.


If this one is true President Sarcastic is a right pudding.

http://www.telegraph....om-Elysee-Palace.html

[Kiki-frog]

How bizarre. Maybe he's just fed up with being le Fromage Grand himself.

[Gromit]

He also does not drink wine.

[Kiki-frog]

Gromit - really? A Frenchman who doesn't drink wine? Nom d'un nom d'un petit cochon bleu, that's just wong.

[DTCwordfan]

The socialist leader is also referred to looking like a soft crème caramel....


Looks like "L'image de la remise en forme" is becoming as important in La Belle France as it is in the USA

Gordon Brown or John Prescott wouldn't stand a chance.

[B00]

"If this one is true President Sarcastic is a right pudding."

yes, but a pudding without cheese in it- obviously :-)

[anotheoldgit]

What has choosing an healthy food regime got to do with his chances of winning the Presidential election?

Would the British electorate be put off voting for a leader, just because he didn't eat fish & chips?

[Gromit]

AOG

You are missing the point. This is a French bashing thread.

[DTCwordfan]

AOG is missing the point completely.

He is obviously not a Francophile, which I guess is true to form.

If he was, then he would know the importance of French cuisine in their culture, never mind the dazzling array of wonderful foods, the fact that they have words that decribe food experiences that can not be translated in a single word such as "degustation" as in a "carte de degustation" when a restauranteur offers his family, friends and best clientele an evening's experience of his food, wine, ambiance and companionship...... He would realise that this very act will be seen as absolutely abhorrent over there and not supporting Monsieur le Petit Agriculteur.

[DTCwordfan]

It's not French bashing, B00; I am a considerable French fan, having lived over there and "en la Belgique, en plus...."

[Kiki-frog]

It's true what DT says, food is far more of a cultural issue in France than it is in Britain. Family meals generally end with cheese and fruit, so to ban cheese is virtually taking a pop at traditional family life. And family meals have remained important in France in a way that we've lost in Britan.

[FredPuli43]

It's not clear whether he banned cheeses for himself, at his meals, or banned them from all formal dinners which he hosts. If he bans them at all state dinners, he is being disturbingly autocratic. His critics say that of him already and he shouldn't be encouraging them with further evidence of it.But, since he doesn't drink wine yet does not ban wines from state dinners (imagine the fuss that would cause), it appears to be merely a personal, dietary, choice and should not be worthy of comment.

We have leaders who try to make political capital by eating sausage rolls and pasties. Sarkozy has to do the same, crazily, by taking up cheese again.These performances ought to be seen as insulting the intelligence of the whole of their respective electorates, but apparently they are not.

[anotheoldgit]

/// I am a considerable French fan ///

A French fan and a 'lefftie' one at that.

Now there's a double negative if you like.

[brionon]

Sacred Blue, mate!

[FredPuli43]

Sarkozy is now running on a "Ban foreigners and eat cheese" 'ticket'. Can't see that working here, can you?

[coccinelle]

It'll just be the dutch cheeses he's banning cos they're from Hollande...!!!!

[FredPuli43]

Boom! Boom! coccinelle LOL

[coccinelle]

Couldn't resist it Fredpuli, sorry!

[Grizelda43]

As De Gaulle once said" who wants to run a cty that has 400 different cheeses"

[Grizelda43]

Sorry! It should have said country