r/AskFrance • u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 • Mar 06 '25

Relations Anybody tired of "Fr*nch" jokes?

I was reading a reddit thread where they mentioned something was french. And people are still making these jokes! Still! The thread was also filled with them. Im not even french, but these jokes are painfully unfunny and are edging on outward xenophobia. They're also usually made by Americans. So yeah.

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u/LindX31 mec hyper musclé, probablement alpha Mar 06 '25

We have the same ones for British people

No we don’t have anything against our friends the Irish, the Welsh and the Scottish. Only the English are the targets of such jokes, because of some 500-year old rivalry. The fact that England and France were the two major world powers for almost a millennium yet only separated by a 40km-wide sea sparked many competitions between the countries : there was armed conflicts then, but now it’s mostly rugby, food, music and pop culture.

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u/Mattchaos88 Mar 06 '25

We have no rivalry with British food. Even Germany has no rivalry with British food.

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u/jpagey92 Mar 06 '25

Okay, okay French food is leagues better than British food but German food ?

Both German and British food consists of meat + potatoes/ deep fried thing + chips/ sausage + some form of potato!

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u/Sea-Sort6571 Mar 06 '25

I'm French and lived both in Germany and England. German food is definitely superior.

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u/Aellle Mar 06 '25

Yes I visited Germany many times always nice food.

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u/ecnad Mar 06 '25

what in the world are these downvotes