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27 mars 2008

The President, The Queen and the Shadoks...

I remember that, while I was in Boston, many american people asked me why the french hated the english so much. My usual answer was "Because they are the Ennemy" which, I recognize, did not enlighten the debate at all but unexpectedly made a lot of people happy there. I also used to elaborate on the non existent and therefore infinitely conceptual english cuisine which, I recognize, is a rather unfair answer. As everybody knows in the Solar System and beyond, food is the real talon d'Achilles of the United Kingdom... But with Our President being invited by Her Majesty to renew the entente cordiale, time is over for old jokes. Indeed, the real answer is that we don't understand all the subtleties of the english culture. Of course, you could argue that my latin and mediterranean background is a serious handicap. But even in the most serious french media as Le Monde, this cultural misunderstanding pops out. In today's edition, the dinner offered by Her Majesty the Queen to Our President has been described in great details so that french citizens could get a glance at this sophisticated british ceremonial. However it was a total failure: once again we faced the cultural gap between the Kingdom and the continent. Maybe you'll never understand this quotation about the ballet introducing the dinner but, believe me, it perfectly summarizes the wideness of the Channel for us:
Le ballet rappelle le pompage des Shadoks.
However, the article is not so irreverencious. They even managed to keep it politically correct by saying that the menu is always written in french in reference to french ancestors of the Windsors. Of course everybody in the Galaxy recognizes here the predominance of the French cuisine over the so-called local "gastronomy". But it would have been a fatal blow to the new entente cordiale to write this in a national french news paper!
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Last but not least, God save the Queen, the Shadoks and the French Cuisine.
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