Seems Jacques Chirac can’t catch a break. A few weeks ago French voters demonstrated their incredible esteem for him by rejecting the Chirac-supported centralizing EU”constitution” and the even more unaccountable bureaucracy it would have ushered in. Then earlier this week the French newspaper Liberation caught him in a perhaps-unguarded-perhaps-calculated moment talking with Schroeder and Putin, in which he suggested you simply can’t trust the Brits because they have such bad food, and went on to say that only Finland had worse cuisine than Britain. Apparently on a roll, he suggested the Britains only contribution to European agriculture was mad cow disease.
All very funny, one supposes.
Then earlier today (or late last night) the Olympic Committee announced that not Paris but — shudder! — London will host the 2012 Olympics. Chirac had really been counting on ghetting the bid to boost his standing with the French people.
Does this mean that instead of English “cuisine” he’ll have to eat crow? Let’s hope it is at least cooked in trufffles.
I bear no particular animus, but I just couldn’t resist.