Russians actually call russian salad "olivier", after the guy who made it, but it was invented in Russia by a man that was born there, so I am not sure you can say it is French.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
173 points (93.0% liked)
Map Enthusiasts
3728 readers
164 users here now
For the map enthused!
Rules:
-
post relevant content: interesting, informative, and/or pretty maps
-
be nice
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
seems Olivier was French/belgian as his name entail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Olivier
I suppose he was of franco-belgian descent, but he was born in Russia, raised in Russia, died in Russia, and invented his salad in Russia as a chief of a russian restaurant.
Even the french agree: "Lucien Olivier est un chef russe d'origine franco-belge" - from Wikipaedia.
Also:
"Nationalité - russe"
"The Vast Atlantic Ocean" is 😙🤌
"😙🤌" is overrated though...
Chef's kiss is overrated?
It's very Italian.
Cruel, heartless, totally deserved. Appropriate friendly banter.
What do you mean? That's just reality, isn't it?
Some say there are islands there that have food without flavour.
Nah, that's just misinformation.
Meh, "proper cuisine" is definitely accurate since it's our national pride, but most of the others don't really feel like french stereotypes. "Soggy pastry" for Denmark even sounds suspiciously american, I've never heard anyone say that about this country in France and I don't even know what it's referring to
Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.
The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.
The meatball thing came from Ikea 100%
We stole them bad boys from Turkey iirc.
Oh? Like the US and their statue of liberty? Or the Dutch and their tulips?
The statue was given by the french, but the USA started by giving one to France IIRC (they paid for the first one in Paris if I got that correctly). It's obviously smaller, you can see it on one of the bridges in Paris.
Actually there are a whole bunch of them in Paris, that's a little rabbit hole if you're curious.
I am, thanks!
I took a look at the website this is coming from, it seems to be mostly the blog author's interpretation of what the stereotypes are for each of their maps
Here it is for anyone curious: https://atlasofprejudice.com/
Their mostly tongue-in-cheek like this one.
Technically the French call the puff pastries most countries seem to equate to typically French (the croissant f.i.) after Vienna. Those are called Vienoiseries
Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties
"Ice cube salad"?
Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can't even make jokes about it.
load more comments
(4 replies)
"inventors" is the best diss i've ever seen for modern swedish food
i asked a friend from italy what she thought about our pizza and she basically said "as long as i don't think of it as pizza it's fine"
she and her bf would regularly hang out with the guy who ran the only italian pizzeria in town and they would shit-talk our food for hours. mad respect.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in the UK. I can't think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.
I know it's part of your transition period and are forced by law to continue the 100 year war on a culinary manner.
I'd say that the proper French culinary colonialist equivalent to the Tikka Massala is the Bahn Mi sandwhich and that feels like a proper match for it.
But now come up with a dish that doeesn't take any inspiration from former colonies and I think most of them can be beaten by a simple onion soup
I can’t think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.
you're insulting yourself and CTM more than french cuisine there mate.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
LOL, that's funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.
load more comments
(2 replies)
This feels more like !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee!
Thanks for mentioning, I didn't know about this. Just subbed!
It's ironic that they've missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.
load more comments
(2 replies)
More like according an American person who identifies as French.
The French admit that ‘French fries’ are in fact Belgian? Sounds very un-French.
The term French Fries was most likely coined by American GIs, the French never had anything to do with that
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
view more: next ›