As a side note, after my son returned from a trip to Europe, he said he wouldn't like to live there because you can't get good Tex-Mex food. As an example he told me that when he bought some tacos in France, they made them with cream sauce.
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Edinburgh Evening News
Sat 13 Aug 2005
Can the French still cut la moutarde?
WIL MARLOW
LAST month French leader Jacques Chirac reportedly ripped into British cuisine. The president apparently told fellow leaders at a summit in Russia that, "you can't trust people who cook as badly as that".
Immediately TV chef Rick Stein was on the defensive.
"I'd actually cooked for him at Downing Street a few years ago," says Stein, "and he drank beer all night. And not just French beer but German beer.
"When that story came out my response was that, as someone who likes to drink beer all through a banquet, I wonder if he's the right person to comment."
