As a French, the fact that no white flag was mentioned in these comments like it would have inevitably on reddit shows the quality of the chaps in here.
France has shown themself to be made of much sterner stuff in the last couple decades then the stereotypes and jokes like to make out. I mean that’s not going to stop the English from making fun of France, but they still have nobility like this was 1650 or something.
Last couple decades? There historically the most winningest military of all time bar none.
Ashencore
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You mean Agincourt?
I even look up the spelling…
The French have always been pretty strong. I don’t know what history you read, but they’ve pretty consistently had one of the strongest militaries in the world. Sure, they surrendered quickly on WWII, but the people kept fighting even then when their government was occupied. They were one of the first nations to aid the United States also and have always been pretty active.
Is this all good? Idk. Besides resisting the Nazis after the occupation, I would very much argue much of this is bad (or at best self-serving). It’s nation-state shit. It’s never out of marality. They’re strong though.
I said it was a stereotype. Overcoming that popular stereotype has been a lot harder than actually having a good military. And demonstrating that you have a good military is different than having one at all. Right or wrong, in the minds of many Americans they didn’t start seeming strong until after 9/11.
The English were assroped by the French Normans that they had to rename many common foodstuffs.
Rename or simply discover what food actually is?
That it seems is yet to come.
And then by French Angevins, which was later but left an even bigger impact on the language. So twice.
Wait what fuck the nobility no matter what country
If the Queen was still alive, I’d have had to eviscerate you for that.
But nobody cares about Jug Ears.
What has the queen ever done for you?
France has shown themself to be made of much sterner stuff in the last couple decades
WDYM? France has been participating in plenty of undeclared, unofficial and gray zone wars practically since WWII till now.
the stereotypes and jokes like to make out
These change with time. Most of European history the stereotypic image of French people was much tougher than that of Germans.
After 1971 - yeah. Interwar - no. After that - again yes.
EDIT: 1871
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. The Americans learned it from you lot. Might do them well to remember.
Wasn’t the American revolution like a decade before the French one?
Yep, you’re right. After a quick search, it looks like the American Revolution started in 1765, and the French Revolution started in 1789.
However, I know French policies and political development had a profound impact on the ideas central to liberal democracies, as it could also be said of American policies and political development.
Y’all fight in the streets better than us. We’ve got no leg to stand on.
You sure wouldn’t hear that from me. French forces have been badass for a long time.
I don’t really care about glorifying past military victories but rather about the fact that the white flag internet meme appeared when the French government refused to follow the USA into Irak War II. https://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/07/villepin.transcript/
I had no idea that’s where those jokes came from, that’s so ridiculous
Fucking good on them. That war was bullshit.
Fun fact: the white flag of surrender became widely known in Europe because people were surrendering to the French.
Way to ruin it.
FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT
Yum, I love air, gums, and stabilizers in my dairy desserts
I’m fine with the air part. There’s air in all kinds of whipped desserts.
depends whether the price reflects it or it’s an attempt to trick you into paying more for less
Personally, I care more about the volume of ice cream I eat than the mass. I don’t want to pay more for more calories when diminishing marginal utility is already in effect.
All ice creams have air in them… it’s sort of the point. If you freeze dairy without whipping it it turns solid.
Always helps to check the unit price by weight that you can usually find on grocery store price tags (often written on a red/orange background but sometimes just in small print off to the side).
The volume of 2 containers can be the same, and checkout price can be the same, but if one is listed as $0.15/oz and the other is $0.20/oz, the cheaper one has more in it.
yeah, but they call them “shakes”.
“shakes”, heh. don’t know what you’re gunna get.
Yep, screw Breyer’s. They legally cannot call it ice cream.
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I looked into making my own ice cream once and had to realize, that practically any store bought ice cream must contain at least some, because my homemade ice cream immediately melted and was impossible to keep im a freezer…
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Always has been
Nonsense, it’s clearly Luxembourg.
It’s spelled Luxemburg.
Home to a Belgian-American community; not to be confused with Belgium, Wisconsin, home to a Luxembourgish-American community.
Nonsense, this is murica. Brown and blue is clearly separated from white
Americans on their way to be so racist towards the blue skinned people that other countries don’t even know about them
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Nonsense. It’s a washed out Dutch flag.
Nonsense it’s Netherlands flag in portrait mode.
Also, don’t forget that Captain America is actually Captain Puerto Rico.
Just the United States acknowledging its debt to General LaFayette.
Nobody expects the French inquisition??
Nobody expects the Science Inquisition
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Wait, that’s France. Murica is just Liberté. And only for rich.
I disagree, there is also Fraternité in America. If you are rich and white enough for a gated community. Don’t expect Egalité though, the Karen (M/F, don’t expect any other genders to be allowed) in charge of the HOA won’t stand for that.
Louisiana
I can’t ever remember if Breyers or Dreyers is the shitty one, so I always just buy Tillamook or Blue Bell.
Breyers is the shitty one, you can tell because they can’t legally call it “Ice Cream”. It is a “Frozen Dairy Dessert” as you can see on the packaging.
Breyers is good. Tillamook and Blue Bell are still better though.
Breyers USED to be good.
I just pointed it out under a different comment, but this isn’t actually ice cream. It’s a frozen dairy product, because they have fucked up the ingredients so much to cut down on cost they can’t call it ice cream anymore.
Unilever bought it and fucked it up.
I used to love Breyers. Remember how their claim on a tub of ice cream tubs was ‘only X ingredients’? Now it reads like a chemistry experiment and tastes similar.
Breyer’s used to have ads specifically about how it was free from shitty ingredients. It only had cream, sugar, salt, and whatever the flavor was. Now, the list of ingredients is longer than on a shampoo bottle.
Well if the shampoo had half as many ingredients maybe it would taste better
i haven’t heard of any of those apart from breyers and breyers isn’t very good on my region at least. feels whipped into frozen foam to fill the container with like a quarter of the product, the only one other than nestle that gives me a mouth full of air and a teaspoon of liquid every bite that melts. If I don’t let it melt it feels like I swallowed air after what would be over indulging by volume but not weight.
I was very unimpressed by Tillamook when I tried it cause I thought it was supposed to be good. I’m also not a fan of Blue Bell.
Which brands do you like? That’s surprising.
Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s. Talenti is good too. Ben & Jerry’s just has good flavor combos.
Dreyer’s is the legit one, though capitalism is starting to work it’s way in. (1.41L now instead of 1.66L; same price)
The image on the cover be like: No shit, Sherlock.
scOOPS, all French people!
At least they didn’t make it white-blue-red
I think that’s on the Project 2025 agenda
That can be arranged, comrade. Just cut off the red and place it next to the blue!
Germany and Italy would like to have a word.
Please leave us out this, we don’t wish to be associated with this “product”
Coming from a murrikan, you’re not to blame. It got it’s designation from the ignorant/self-absorbed and likely drunk/cracked-out murrikans in the 1800’s. (they’re not as common, but they are still around here)
The wiki article actually enlightens that it was a German creation, but they decided to swap the better tasting pistachio section with strawberry. (which completely changed the flavor profile)
It was supposed to be chocolate/vanilla/pistachio‽‽‽
WE WERE ROBBED!!!
This isn’t Neapolitan. It has something blue instead of chocolate.
Looks like the label says blueberry
Thank you. My old eyes couldn’t see it very well, especially after a glass of wine.
