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Old May 20th, 2013, 01:20 AM
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What is the best food in France?
what is the name of france's most popular food?
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If you are going to Italy, as per your other thread, why do you want to know about France's most popular food?
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What is the best food in France? French!
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There is no one 'most popular' food. Everyone has different tastes. Personally, I love magret de canard, cassoulet, foie gras and specialities from the Southwest of France. In France, a nation of 60 million people as in any other country, there is no one national dish.
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I give up...what is it?
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Langercraft is correct, French cuisine at its best is regional cuisine. And what you appeals to you most may not appeal at all to someone else. For example, I don't like any of the dishes Langercraft loves. The cuisine of Southwest France leaves me cold. I much prefer the cuisine of the Loire Valley, Brittany, and Burgundy. The cuisines I love aren't better than that of Southwest France, just different.
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Ris de veau, rognons, xxx Andouillette
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French fries

French dressing

French bread

French Canadian Peanut Butter

Swiss Chard from the French-speaking part of
Switzerland.

Mr. French, but not Buffy or Sissy

French's mustard


Thin
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Snails, eel, frogs' legs, calves' brains, pigs' ears, nettle soup, veal kidneys, aïoli, beef cheeks, bull tail, goose necks, and duck liver.
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You ask two questions: best and most popular. Which is it?
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Which ever you enjoy most
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I'll go out on a limb and say -- croissants and baguettes, basically bread and pastries, as the most "popular".

If this were a Jeopardy quiz, I'd say croissant is the most popular French food.
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...although the croissant is originally Austrian and the French fry is Belgian....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croissant
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French fries>

French fries are not even of French origin but Belgian I believe - the word 'french' means 'frenched' potatoes - a way of cooking them and has nothing to do with France - you make the same mistake as Congress when they re-named French Fires Freedom Fries to show their disgust with the French.

The most iconic French food is no doubt a baguette fresh from a boulangerie. Sans doute!
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Random questions about "best" and "favorite".

Not sure I understand what is actually going on here.
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Make the most of the message:

My personal popular food is Cassoulet; Moules et frites; Bouillabaisse; the latter being my preferred choice.
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It certainly is not andouillette
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Ira - great suggestions. The only thing I'd add to that is foie gras.

StuD - you want to eat flying rats, as Herb Caen was wont to say?
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