> Britain was founded by the French
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French Revolutions.
A full revolution takes you back to where you started.
Also, cinema was invented by the French. Kind of cool IMO.
French catheter
"We invented democracy, existentialism, and the ménage à trois."
"Oh man... Those are three pretty good things."
Democracy? Explain please, i thought the concept was way older than France.
I'm just quoting Talladega Nights.
Britain is the land mass that includes England, Wales, and Scotland.
William the Conquerer was the first Norman king of England and never had power over Wales and he was mostly successful in gaining homage from King Malcolm III, but never king over the lands.
Edward I about two hundred years later almost pulls it off, but doesn't quite get a firm grip on Scotland. James I in the early 17th century holds the crown for each of the lands. In 1707 they formalize the relationship with a treaty.
So... No the French did not found Britain.
Also Normans were descendants of viking settlers. So French didn't technically fund England either (yes, I'm being pedantic for the sake of the joke).
You could, however, accurately say that a French family founded the modern British monarchy. That much is still true. The UK royal family can still trace its lineage directly to William the Conqueror.
It's not just the royal family, other descendants of the french conquerors are also on average wealthier than the descendants of those that had been conquered.
One pretty striking statistic: "Furthermore, Norman descendants also enjoy other privileges, including attendance at the best universities. In a recent study that examined the enrollment at Cambridge and Oxford over the last thousand years, it was revealed that at certain times, Norman names were 800% more common at Oxford than in the general population, and more recently, were at least twice as likely to found in that institution’s enrollment."
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/last-1000-years-families-owned-england/
Nobody in France calls French fries or French toast "French". We're definitely happy to attribute the fries to our Belgian friends and nobody thinks something as ubiquitous as toasts could have a single inventor. I think those are Anglo-Saxon cultural elements.
FIY: French toast is the english name for pain perdu.
Also probably not "invented" by the French, but no one thinks they invented simple toast.
Also here we call it "cafetière à piston" not french press.
No we are not attributing fries to the Belgian, fries are french. The Belgian improved on our invention and make the best fries, but Frenchs invented it.
Content warning, a lot of french: https://www.musee-gourmandise.be/fr/musee-gourmandise/articles-de-fond?view=article&id=132:la-veritable-histoire-de-la-frite&catid=77:articles-fond
Like the espresso, invented by the French (express or exprés? nobody knows which one it was, but making 1 little cup at a time was new and fast), then the Italians improved it, especially with gruppo 61, group head 61. Now they have the best coffee 😔
No idea what a French press is. Probably a cafetière ?
Seems to be one and the same
Who the hell calls it a French press, I've never heard anyone call it that.
The US calls everything "French" because they think it'll sell better.
I never knew there was a different name for it. The cafetière is a new one on me, and I did French in high school. Guess we weren't talking about coffee much, though apparently french fries came up enough for me to remember pommes frites (they probably don't fry apples much over there).
Some fruits can be fried in the form of "beignets", which is fruit covered with batter and then fried. Apples are traditionally the most popular beignet recipe I think: "beignets aux pommes".
Pommes de terre frites or patates frites
Or just 'frites'
Most commonly, yes, just frites. Was just saying that pommes frites wasn't exactly right
The French deserve some respect. If you want to know what a true strike or protest looks like, look to the French.
More and more these days French disrespect feels like boomer shit. Look what the French did when the government came for their pensions. The industrial action within the transport sector alone.
I was visiting Paris during some of the aforementioned protest. They’re out and about (in numbers) and will gladly get out to protest when they feel it necessary. Plenty of other western countries could learn, a lot, from the French people.
I keep saying this and people look at me like I'm some kind of extremist
Like no dude I just want universal healthcare
universal healthcare
*me, looking at you like you're some sort of communist
The American right would like to categorize it like that but it's not communism at all, it's socialism. I wish they could mischaracterize the correct political philosophy.
Look what the French did when the government came for their pensions.
For the record we did get it down from 65 to 64, but we still got +2 years.
I appreciate that the outcome may not have been what was strictly desired. The French populace still get off their arse and do more than complain on social media while effectively doing three fifths of fuck all. More than what can be said about some others, especially those who are inclined to make brain devoid white flag jokes.
The important thing is to burn lots of people's cars. Probably locals who are also protesting.
That's how you really get the attention of the authorities.
This is not the French claiming ownership of stuff, this is shitty naming on the part of Americans who thinks all european food is from France. Or who really wouldn't know the difference between Europe and France to begin with.
The most elegant and refined food, fries.
French fries as in they came from the French part of Belgium, maybe?
Just have to triple check whether French revolution occured in French.
Questionable: the 2023 movie Napoleon is entirely British and American actors. It is historically accurate. 🤔
Which gives rise to the true founding father of Germany. Napoleon.
Without his restructuring of the HRE for management it would be even harder to unify later.
Sounds like all those others want to be French.
Je ne suis pas Francais, but I want to be!
To save anyone else the wiki trip
“Some authors consider the recipe for Aliter Dulcia (translated as 'Another sweet dish') included in the Apicius, a 1st-century CE Ancient Roman cuisine cookbook, "not very different" from modern French toast, although it does not involve eggs.[10][11]
In Le Viandier, culinary cookbook written around 1300, the French chef Guillaume Taillevent presented a recipe for tostées dorées[12] involving eggs and sugar.[13]”
When a dish with 3 ingredients is missing one ingredient, it's not the same dish.
Is sugar an ingredient though and not a condiment, more like salt & pepper?
That's why it's 3.
Bread, cream and eggs.
Well, technically the French did not found Britain - they were Normans.
Who were the Normans? They were Scandinavian vikings who had been raiding France for decades. Eventually the French king decided to offer them lands (now called Normandy) in France if they promised to stop raiding and instead protect the French coast.
Surrendering
Britain yet again something they just tacked onto near the end being Italian,German and Scandinavian before hand.