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โ€œ[Salt's] pairing with pepper as table accessories dates to seventeenth-century French cuisine, which considered black pepper (distinct from herbs [โ€ฆ]) the only spice that did not overpower the true taste of food.โ€

those monsters. the french must atone for their crimes

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it's illegal to be cool in france, they are responsible for a lot of the blandness of european food, and they still have the worst โ€œpostโ€-colonial relations of any european power, but they also have the tgv and nuclear power, and i'm british, so i can't say france's all bad

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this is what i meant by โ€œi live in one of the bearnaise countries it's dire out hereโ€. i get this ad on youtube constantly, including just a minute ago. this country* is obsessed with bearnaise. it is a victim of french culinary influence,

* (sweden)

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