what is the name of france's most popular food?

If you are going to Italy, as per your other thread, why do you want to know about France's most popular food?

What is the best food in France? French!

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.

I give up...what is it?

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.

Ris de veau, rognons, xxx Andouillette

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

Snails, eel, frogs' legs, calves' brains, pigs' ears, nettle soup, veal kidneys, aïoli, beef cheeks, bull tail, goose necks, and duck liver.

Pigeon

Stu Dudley

You ask two questions: best and most popular. Which is it?

Which ever you enjoy most

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.

...although the croissant is originally Austrian and the French fry is Belgian....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croissant

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!

Random questions about "best" and "favorite".

Not sure I understand what is actually going on here.

Make the most of the message:

My personal popular food is Cassoulet; Moules et frites; Bouillabaisse; the latter being my preferred choice.

It certainly is not andouillette

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?