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French Cuisine Is Haughty refers to the association in many works of fiction between French cooking and high class, expensive gourmet dining, or Snooty Haute Cuisine. For factual information about French cuisine, see Snails and So On and the Wikipedia article on French cuisine. French cuisine differs from other food due to its use of fine wines and reductions in cooking, sauces like Bechamel, julienned vegetables, confit meats, its love of Herbes de Provence, and its use of foods such as frog legs and rabbit. France in general and Gay Paree in particular is considered by many to be the food capital of the world, and the French culinary tradition is often portrayed as the gold standard of fine dining. Characters visiting Paris will most likely make a point of sampling the fine dining and extensive wine lists there, and shows and stories about chefs and fine dining establishments take place in France and more specifically in Paris. The French chef is one of the central figures of this trope. Even in many non-French works that take place outside of France, whether in Europe or in North America, or at a Five-Star hotel in Tokyo or Johannesburg, the elite chefs are French, France-trained or experts in French food. The French chef is always a Supreme Chef, and will generally regard himself as a true artist, be something of a drama king, and may be very temperamental if he feels that his genius is not being appreciated. He will probably speak Poirot Speak and describe his creations in loving, sumptuous detail reaching the point of Food Porn. A non-French chef attempting to establish his credentials as a gourmet chef will likely learn French cooking and litter his language with Gratuitous French. In fiction, a French restaurant is practically synonymous with high class dining. Most French restaurants are going to be upper-class preserve with an exclusive guest list, reservations required a month ahead, a dress code, a maître d’, an extensive wine list where the "cheapest" bottle is a vintage for $100, and a menu that's only in French. There will be a supremely snooty waiter who practically tries to force the customers to order what the waiter thinks is proper rather than what the character wants, and who speaks French most of the time and whose English has a heavy French accent. If characters of lesser standing can even get into such a place to begin with, they will likely end up embarrassing themselves with their inability to afford most of the things on the menu ("Can we get that 2012 Cotes de Rhone by the glass?"), their inability to understand and pronounce the French on the menu, and by a committing culinary faux pas such as ordering ketchup or having the wrong choice of wine with their meat. If the customer's culinary choices are particularly egregious, the chef will likely come out and fuss at them. If the restaurant does anything wrong, however, the chef may come out and personally apologize. If the French chef does not work at a high class restaurant, he will be the personal chef for a Blue Blood or upper class household or cook on their yacht. Indeed, there was once a time where the French chef was considered as indispensable a part of the standard wealthy person's domestic staff as the French Maid. Overlaps with Everything Sounds Sexier in French, as even an ordinary dish will sound fancier and more cultured when given a French name. Case in point: would you rather eat "crème brûlée" or "burnt cream"? As well, you expect a little bowl of applesauce to be $2 in a non-French restaurant, but at a snooty French restaurant, you happily pay $6 for a side of "compote de pommes". Sub-Trope to Hollywood Cuisine and Haute Cuisine Is Weird. Compare to French Jerk for a character type common to the French restaurant, and Chez Restaurant for a naming convention commonly used to make things sound high-class. See also Angry Chef. |
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In National Lampoon's European Vacation the Griswolds go to a French restaurant and are served by an incredibly rude and insulting waiter who tells them (in French, a language that none of the Griswolds speak) that he'll serve them dishwater rather than what they actually ordered because they won't be able to tell the difference, then he makes lewd remarks about Helen and Audrey before telling Clark "go fuck yourself." | |
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In the Let's Go Luna! episode "C'est Cheese", Leo takes a cooking class in Paris. His teacher, Chef Rene, is highly snooty and strict. Leo learns that even preparing a grilled cheese sandwich can be a work of art in France. | |
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The Aristocats featured a dish called Prime Country Goose à la Provençale, which is apparently "stuffed with chestnuts" and "basted in white wine". | |
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Antique Bakery: The title's cake shop has a menu entirely in French to evoke this idea, the head pâtissière learned his trade and title in France, and the apprentice goes to France for advanced cuisine instruction. The waitstaff, thankfully, don't manage the snooty part of the stereotype. | |
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Robotman and Monty has one strip where a condescending waiter laughs in secret after forcing Monty to pronounce "Pourri cerveau de singe kyste" (since the waiter gave a transparent excuse of not having his reading glasses). When the order is revealed to be "stewed rotten monkey brain" Monty is, of course, appalled and asks why they would even have something like that on the menu. The waiter responds that they found it to be quite popular when putting it next to a picture of hamburger. | |
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The Simpsons exaggerates this trope by having a French chef that tries to kill Homer Simpson after Homer gives him bad reviews. Granted, every other chef in town was teaming up to do the same. | |
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In one Yogi Bear cartoon, Yogi and Boo-Boo win a trip to Paris. At a fancy restaurant, Yogi tries to put ketchup on his steak, which makes the chef so angry that he takes the bottle and hits him on the head with it. | |
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Food Wars!: Already a French cuisine expert as a student, Kojirou Shinomiya was determined to make a name in France as the best French-Japanese chef. After a long struggle and Break the Haughty process, not only did he succeed, but he became more arrogant, as he refused any slight alterations to the recipes as he considered them already perfect. Part of that is because the previous, arrogant cooks he worked with altered his recipes, which ended up almost completely ruining his restaurant, so he had to make a rule to not alter his recipes or he otherwise fires them on the spot. He later mellows out of this. | |
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Discworld: Parodied in Hogfather, where a Quirmian restaurant, to the head waiter's horror, is forced to sell old boots and mud under fake Quirmian names. The manager explains the situation to him: In Unseen Academicals, Glenda (a Supreme Chef in her own right, though very much in the traditional British mode) sees the banquet menu as snooty and therefore unpalatable to the footballers. Her way of putting this is asking "You're giving them Avec?" This attitude is subsequently moderated in Snuff, in which Quirmian food (the Discworld counterpart of French) is acknowledged to be "pretty damn good, even if they did use a shade too much avec". |
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The movie Euro Trip features a deleted scene where the kids go to an upscale French restaurant in Paris, complete with a snooty, condescending French waiter. When the kids receive the bill and see how expensive it is they quickly leave without paying. A moment later the waiter returns to the table to find it empty, and mistakenly believes that it was his insulting attitude that drove his customers away. We are then shown a montage of all the times in his life when he believed his personality drove away the customers when it reality it was the high prices of the food (beginning when he was a kid and waited on a table full of German soldiers during the occupation in World War II). | |
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In Indulgence in Death, one victim is a famous "French" chef who was actually born in Kansas. | |
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DuckTales (1987): Scrooge Mcduck suffers this trope when he lunches at a French restaurant in "The Status Seekers". | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a very irritable Breton (who're basically a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Brittany that have both human and elven ancestors in place of Celtic and French ones) who works as a chef in Markarth, complains about the quality of food and refuses to acknowledge the fact that he and Nords share the same ancestors. His snootiness makes killing him one of the bonus objectives in one of the Dark Brotherhood quests really cathartic. | |
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This attitude is subsequently moderated in Snuff, in which Quirmian food (the Discworld counterpart of French) is acknowledged to be "pretty damn good, even if they did use a shade too much avec". | |
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Binging with Babish has an episode dedicated to the hors d'oeuvres from the "Be Our Guest" number from Beauty and the Beast. (Incidentally, he concludes that "the gray stuff" is chicken liver mousse, which is, in fact, delicious.) (For copyright/YouTube reasons, the sound has a weird, under-watery character that makes zero sense on basically every level—including legal/copyright ones.) | |
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In Unseen Academicals, Glenda (a Supreme Chef in her own right, though very much in the traditional British mode) sees the banquet menu as snooty and therefore unpalatable to the footballers. Her way of putting this is asking "You're giving them Avec?" | |
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Arthur's Perfect Christmas: Subverted for laughs at La Bruncherie ("A Fancy Place for Brunch!"), where the food turns out to be quite pedestrian beneath the prim presentation and pretense: | |
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In Mass Effect 2 there is a Turian chef on the Citadel that exhibits a haughty, condescending attitude that is typically associated with French chefs/waiters. In his defense, however, the guy he was talking to was apparently an idiot, trying to mix dextro-amino spices with levo-amino foods, which would probably make anyone who ate the food sick. | |
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Mass Effect: In Mass Effect 2 there is a Turian chef on the Citadel that exhibits a haughty, condescending attitude that is typically associated with French chefs/waiters. In his defense, however, the guy he was talking to was apparently an idiot, trying to mix dextro-amino spices with levo-amino foods, which would probably make anyone who ate the food sick. In Mass Effect 3: Citadel, the first part of the plot is a rendezvous in a haughty French sushi restaurant (apparently this is a trend in the 2180s). One of the alien customers even asks if it's "real French sushi". |
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Our Miss Brooks: In the episode French Sadie Hawkins Day, Miss Brooks accidentally orders "Parking in Rear" from the snobby maître d'hôtel. She then proceeds to order expensive meals for everybody, ignorant of the fact that she has agreed to pay for the meal. | |
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In long-running French sitcom Les Filles d'à côté, the "girls next door" are initially intrigued and excited when one of their number, Fanny, brings home a large exciting parcel as a "surprise present". Claire and Magalie excitedly help her tear the wrapping off. Then excitement turns to disenchantment when they realise it's a microwave oven. Apparently this is something to disdain and only usually to be found in Britain or the USA, two countries where people have absolutely no idea how to prepare food properly and only know how to butcher good ingredients. Such a device has no place whatsoever in a French kitchen... | |
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Kedabory's Muppet Mania personifies this via the French Chef, a foil to the Swedish Chef with a serious dedication to her craft, as well as a hot temper and little patient for Swedish Chef's antics. Her way of hosting their segments is a much more straightforward way of demonstrating a recipe, which usually goes south either through Swedish Chef's interference, or through French Chef's own haughtiness getting the better of her. | |
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Yumeiro Pâtissière has the lead character study to be a pâtissière in a French baking school. | |
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In the The Bliss Bakery series, there is a famous baking competition that takes place in France. The baker who is the only judge on the competition is, of course, French, and very haughty. | |
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Pride and Prejudice: Mrs Bennet nods to Mr Darcy's opulent wealth and high class standards when she supposes that he has two or three French cooks. She was satisfied that he complimented their dinner at Longbourne. | |
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Parodied in Hogfather, where a Quirmian restaurant, to the head waiter's horror, is forced to sell old boots and mud under fake Quirmian names. The manager explains the situation to him: | |
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The Gilded Age: The Nouveau Riche Russell family displays their opulence by hiring a French chef, who is quite proud of his cooking. It's a scandal when it turns out that he's actually a Midwesterner who just studied in France. Interestingly, while the Old Money of New York prefer to dine in a European style over American, they take their cues from Britain, and the Russells must scramble to adjust their menu to fit snooty British tastes. | |
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Recess has Chef Pierrot, who cooks gourmet meals for the school faculty in the teacher's lounge, while the kids have to settle with much plainer (but still usually palatable) food | |
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In a very famous example, Ferris Bueller's Day Off features a scene where Ferris and his friends attempt to dine at an upscale French restaurant but the stuck-up maître d’ tries to turn them away. When Ferris successfully convinces the maître d' that he's a very wealthy and powerful customer, the embarrassed maître d’ quickly shows them to a table. | |
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Archie Comics: The cook at the Lodge house is Gaston, a very temperamental French chef. | |
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Exaggerated in an episode of Regular Show when Muscle Man's girlfriend takes him and her parents to a fancy French restaurant, and the staff (led by the stereotypical snooty waiter) try to kill them after Muscle Man tries to eat Crème brûlée with the wrong kind of spoon. | |
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In Good Omens Famine's attempt to bring his restaurant franchise (which serves something that tastes exactly like normal fast food but has no nutritional benefit whatsoever - it's a "diet" "food" that makes you obese before you starve to death) to France is foiled because his pathfinder salesmen are shot dead 30 minutes after arriving. (He had, however, had a previous success in France with the invention of nouvelle cuisine.) | |
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Murder, She Wrote: Robert, the chef at Jessica's friend's Monte Carlo hotel in "The Monte Carlo Murders", finds it hard to believe most Americans are even capable of appreciating good food, and when Jessica expresses interest in his bearnaise sauce recipe, he becomes conviced she want to sell it to a fast food chain. | |
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France from Hetalia: Axis Powers says his cooking is absolutely divine. He's right. | |
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Ash and Camilla from My Kitchen Rules are self-admitted "food snobs", and during the show's prelims, they try to show off their sophistication by serving French dishes. | |
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Luigi's Mansion 3 has Chef Soulfflé. His name is based on a French dish and he makes stereotypical "hohn hohn" sounds, and he's a chef with a very poor temper who attacks Luigi for accidentally making him drop the fish he was cooking. | |
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When the characters on Home Improvement want fine dining, they tend to go to a local restaurant whose waiter always insults them. When one of the boys takes a girl there for a dinner date, they end up just ordering salads because they can't afford anything else. | |
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In Good Eats, one of the recurring Sitcom Arch-Nemesis characters is "Mad French Chef". Like many of the recurring foes for Alton, he represents an "evil" of cooking, in this case, snooty, uptight traditional cooking "establishment". Also, in the boiullabaise episode, the French chefs from Alton's backpacking-through-Europe days tell him that he won't be able to prepare the dish, as it is a matter of national pride to them...and US waters don't contain the one fish considered by them to be essential (although they do contain some that are close.) They tell him it's crap when he serves it to them, but they finish the whole thing. | |
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Spider-Man: During J. Michael Straczynski's run on The Amazing Spider-Man (1999), there was a minor running gag of Peter and MJ repeating visiting a French restaurant and Peter getting aggravated with the snooty waiter. | |
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A Prairie Home Companion has Café Boeuf, an elite restaurant with Maurice the maitre d', who tends to be especially snooty, sometimes even insulting customers that do not meet their standards of class. | |
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One of the most arrogant, annoying clients on Rumpole of the Bailey is Jean-Pierre O'Higgins (apparently half-French, half-Irish), who leaves his kitchen to personally berate Rumpole, who had the unmitigated chutzpah to demand a steak-and-kidney pudding (and worse, a "mashed... SPUD!") at his restaurant. When he turns to Rumpole to defend against a charge under the health code,note A charge of which he was, by the by, absolutely guilty: The mouse was in his restaurant, and the code is strict-liability. The jury acquitted him when it came out that one of his employees had smuggled the mouse in as part of some internal restaurant shenanigans. However, even if the jury had convicted him (as they should have), the trial would have been a win for O'Higgins, as the fact that the mouse was smuggled in would show that the violation was merely technical and did not reflect on the conditions in the restaurant. he softens a bit, but that doesn't make the "lightly grilled" duck he serves any less haughty. | |
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In the Team Fortress 2 fic Cheesy Potaters, Spy uses a sack of potatoes bought by Engineer to make a potato dish with cheese, leading to him arguing with Sniper over whether to call it "gratin dauphinois" or "cheesy potaters". | |
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Bastian and his daughter Elise own the only restaurant in Harvest Moon: Light of Hope. They're both French and sprinkle their dialogue with Gratuitous French. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Griffon chef Gustave le Grand is an arrogant chef with a French accent and all the mannerisms stereotypical associated with French chefs. One-Shot Background Pony Savoir Fare from "The Ticket Master" also fits the snooty waiter version of this trope (his answer to Spike ordering rubies is a condescending glare). |
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Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts: The French chef in the Framing Device is portrayed as a stereotypical Angry Chef, made a lot more understandable in "Deep" where he tells how the kitchen he was apprenticed to was a Chain of Harm where chefs would take out their frustration of their inferiors, the apprentices at the very bottom of the hierarchy. | |
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In the second Trinity movie, the two borderline-illiterate outlaw brothers suddenly find themselves really rich, buy smart suits and go to an expensive French restaurant. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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L.A. Story has a very snooty French restaurant called l'Idiot, where the lead has to show his bank balance and several other references to even get a reservation. The restaurant's snooty employee is played to Large Ham perfection by Patrick Stewart. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Generictown has a French restaurant, Chez Elmo's ("Frogs and Snails! We deliver!). Monsieur Elmo (and his brother, who works at a restaurant in Paris) both seem more weary and beleaguered than snooty, from constantly dealing with obnoxious customers. | |
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In an episode of Disney's Doug, Patti drags Doug to a French restaurant to spy on what she thinks is a date between her father and Roger Klotz's mother. They try to get away with ordering crackers and ketchup, but when the waiter growls angrily at them Patti orders two bowls of vichyssoise to appease them. Neither of them has ever had it, and have to be informed that it's served cold rather than hot. | |
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Russian aristocracy's francophilia has a lo-o-ong history,note original releases of War and Peace, for example, written by a landed Count from a family whose history spans centuries, feature pages of untranslated and unannotated French: the equally aristocratic readers were supposed to be fluent. and the father of the classical French Haute Cuisine, Marie Antoine Carême, served the Russian Tzar for a time. Moreover, since the Napoleonic Wars and especially the 1812 invasion, which ended in a huge amount of French soldiers choosing to stay in the country seeing it as an opportunity, not just a noble's court, but even a humble city tavern or a roadside inn could afford to hire a genuine French cook. It led to a huge intermixing of the culinary traditions not only on a level of the haute cuisine, but also between commoners' cooking, especially after some of those cooks returned home at last. The most enduring sign of this exchange is a Service à la Russe, when the courses are served one-after-one. | |
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One episode of Charmed (1998) featured the girls' father Victor bringing Piper's Kid from the Future Chris to a fancy French restaurant in an attempt to bond with him and learn why he's being so distant from Piper. The waiter has a thick accent and derides Chris for unfamiliarity with and inability to pronounce the menu items, though Chris antagonizes him right back. | |
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I Love Lucy: Lucy famously pretends to be a Frenchwomen while visiting Paris; she visits a Parisian sidewalk café and snubs the Mertzes as "Les Americans", ends up ordering Escargot and is horrified to find out she's ordered snails, tries to put ketchup on said snails outraging the chef, and is finally arrested for unknowingly passing the counterfeit money she was duped into taking by a conman outside the American Express Office. | |
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Jacques Roach on The Jim Henson Hour, and his expy Yves St La Roache on The Animal Show with Stinky and Jake. | |
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Ratatouille subverts this; while Remy works in a fancy restaurant, the dish he wins the Caustic Critic over with is called a "peasant dish"—specifically, a ratatouille—because it gives the critic a fond memory of being served it by his mother. (There's a bit of Truth in Television there: for many French, especially those from the South of France, a good ratatouille would definitely be Comfort Food of the first order.) Remy does change the presentation a bit (switching out rough-cut veggies all mixed together for rounds layered on top of each other), but he realized the place of non-haughty food. (The actual recipe for the specific variant—called confit byaldi—was developed by nouvelle cuisine chefs who were, in essence, trying to figure out a way to make the classic homey French dish in a way that would be presentable in a high-class restaurant while losing none of what made the original ratatouille good; all accounts are that they succeeded.) | |
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Frasier and Niles Crane often dine at high-end, exclusive French restaurants in Seattle. They're regular diners at Chez Henri, Le Cigare Volant, Le Petit Bistro and Quelquechose while looking down on other cuisines. Shortly after Niles and Daphne get together she lampshades their snobby preferences when Niles admits he doesn't like her cooking. | |
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The Kalos region from Pokémon X and Y is based on France. It was the first game to feature the protagonist's eating food at restaurants. Compared to the other regions more casual foods like ramen or sushi, Kalos cuisine is certainly different. The higher end restaurants serve such delicacies as 3000-year-old bones boiled in snow for 100 days. One of the Kalos Elite Four is the Water-type specialist Siebold, a famous chef. He takes Pokémon battles as seriously as he does his cuisine, and considers both of them to be art. |
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Succession: When Tom forces Greg to accompany him on an outing to show him "how to be rich," he takes Greg to a fancy French restaurant and orders them both ortolan bunting, a whole cooked bird eaten in one bite while you put a napkin over your head to hide your decadence from God's judgment. Tom praises the dish as "gamy" and Greg finds the whole experience unpleasant. | |
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