Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at a prison in Paris on Tuesday to begin serving a 5-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya — a historic moment that makes him the first ex-leader of modern France to be imprisoned.
Sorry to disappoint. :) France really has had fashy inclinations for a long time, if we’re being honest. A lot more people were plenty happy to have the Germans over in the 40s than pop media created afterward tended to willingly show. For some reason.
The food genuinely is great though.
There’s no such thing as a utopia but there are definitely some countries that have their shit more closely together than others. So don’t lose hope!
Hot take, but French people have an inflated opinion about their food. It’s good, but they’re in Europe surrounded by German and English fare so it seems mind blowing to them.
Check out Asia, Vietnam did wonders with whatever the French introduced and that’s like a few decades of guys in street stalls while France has entire institutes dedicated to this stuff.
There are a fair few countries with amazing food, yeah. Italy, to start with, without even leaving Europe, and yeah, I’m a huge fan of India and much of China in that respect too, particularly Sichuan cuisine.
This thread was however about France specifically, and your comment reads like a fairly gauche non-sequitur.
Hot take is pretty much a synonym for a gauche non-sequitor, but point taken.
Fair point. XD