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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The French just can't seem to be satisfied with normal food

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Frog legs, snails, birds so decadent you need to hide your shame from God.... Yeah I agree with your assessment.

[–] kalpol 5 points 10 months ago

Not that it makes eating ortolan any better, but the shame thing is made up. It's to inhale the brandy fumes.

[–] undergroundoverground 3 points 10 months ago

Tbf, during the seige of Paris, they were starving and started grabbing anything they could find.

Being French, they would rather starve than not cook whatever they found in the garden or the zoo in a fancy way.