How to Make Friends & Influence People, by Jacques Chirac

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the President de la Republique Francaise is doing his bit to improve relations with his European partners from across the Channel:

Jacques Chirac stirred the pot at a meeting on Sunday when he joked to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Germany's Gerhard Schröder that the British could not be trusted and food was only worse in Finland.

The French President declared the only thing the British had ever done for European agriculture was mad cow disease, the French daily Libération reported.

Mr Chirac then reportedly said: "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland, it's the country with the worst food."

Typical. Francophone Europe regulates the curvature of bananas, panders to hostile minorities, whines about bad food and then carries on like a pork chop when les anglo-saxons treat it like a bad joke with a personal hygeine problem.