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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac cracked jokes to Russian and German leaders about bad British food and mad cow disease, a Paris daily said on Monday, in comments that could further strain Anglo-French relations.
Chirac’s office said the comments in Liberation “did not correspond at all with the tone or the content of the meeting” he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Sunday in Kaliningrad.
Liberation said Chirac was overheard making the jokes on the sidelines of the meeting in the Russian city. Its Moscow correspondent, who covered the meeting, reported journalists overheard an unsuspecting Chirac making the remarks.
Chirac took the opportunity of a receptive audience to snipe at British food. “You can’t trust people who cook as badly as that,” he joked, the paper said.
“After Finland, it’s the country with the worst food.”
He then told Putin and Schroeder how former NATO Secretary General George Robertson, a Scot, had made him try an unappetizing Scottish dish.
“That’s where our problems with NATO come from,” he said.
Originally posted by Figher Master FIN
HEY, i live in Finland... He said that our food SUCK... Damn you french men... And did you know that the frenchmen are using 5 times less sope than the Finnish... But that doesn't mean that we are saying to the French men that "you stink"...
[edit on 6-7-2005 by Figher Master FIN]
He added that Britain’s only contribution to European agriculture was “mad cow” disease.
Originally posted by AdamB
He added that Britain’s only contribution to European agriculture was “mad cow” disease.
Not to mention that Britain virtually invented all of the modern day's agricultural practises, which French farmers use everyday.
Originally posted by deltaboy
He then told Putin and Schroeder how former NATO Secretary General George Robertson, a Scot, had made him try an unappetizing Scottish dish.
“That’s where our problems with NATO come from,” he said.
Originally posted by deltaboy
havent the French learned anithing from the past about mocking the Brits.
Originally posted by AdamB
I like Chirac, because he gave us the 2012 Olympics.