[usmc_chris]

No, tumescence is not an issue here. Objectively speaking, French cuisine is superior to most of the fare one encounters in America.

There are plenty of French restaurants that do not charge obscene prices, and I do not believe that the issue at hand is the cost. It is the inability among some members of this board to distinguish between the politics of Jacques Chirac and the glorious French food and wine.

[Mihalis]

...Objectively speaking, French cuisine is superior to most of the fare one encounters in America

Actually that's a very subjective statement. Superior in what sense? Because all the natural food flavors are disguised in those heavy sauces?

When it comes to food, there's no such thing as "objective". It's just a matter of taste.

[Yankee]

It is the inability among some members of this board to distinguish between the politics of Jacques Chirac and the glorious French food and wine.

I personally suffer from the inability to accept the conjoining of the words "glorious" and "French" in any context.

The adjectives cowardly, mendacious, duplicitous, ignoble, effete, feckless, and emasculated, all spring to mind though.