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* ''[[Antique Bakery]]'': The titular 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.
* Sanji from ''[[One Piece]]'' uses [[Gratuitous French]] to name his techniques in the original Japanese.
* ''[[Yumeiro Patissiere (Anime)|Yumeiro Patissiere]]'' has the lead character study to be a pâtissière in a French baking school.
 
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== [[Film]] ==
* The movie ''[[Euro TripEurotrip]]'' 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).
* In a very famous example, ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film)|Ferris Buellers 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 Farris successfully convinces the maître d’ that he's a very wealthy and powerful customer, the embarrassed maître d’ quickly shows them to a table.
* ''[[LAL.A. Story]]'' has a very snooty French restaurant called l'Idiot, where the lead has to show his bank balance and several other references even to get a reservation. Snooty character played to [[Large Ham]] perfection by [[Patrick Stewart]].
{{quote| "You can't have the duck. Do you think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?"}}
* 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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{{quote| '''Reynolds''': Waiter! What is the ''soupe du jour''?<br />
'''Acidulous waiter''': "Soup of the Day." }}
* In the second ''[[Trinity (Filmfilm)|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]].
 
== Literature ==
* [[PGP. G. Wodehouse (Creator)|PG Wodehouse]], in his ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' stories, has Anatole, a French chef of renown that is on the private staff of an British upperclass family. He tends to be very temperamental and prone to threatening to quit whenever he feels like his work is not being appreciated.
** Attempts to lure Anatole into the other employment make the plots of several stories.
* In the children's book ''Clarence Goes to Town'' they go to a french restaurant where nobody ever eats (because it's new). Clarence [who is a dog btw] is initally disinvited from staying in the restaurant because it might disturb the other customers. Gascon the chef replies, "what other customers?" The chef makes a special meal for Clarence, who eats it in the window. A lot of passers-by see the dog enjoying the meal and come in to the restaurant. By the end of the book it's a big hit.
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* ''[[Ratatouille]]'' actually does a great deal of subverting this trope. Gusteau's philosophy was that "anyone can cook", which is derided by snooty food critic Anton Ego, and there is a sequence showing how unsnooty the cooks at his restaurant are. At the end, Ego is won over by the titular stew, considered a lowly "peasant dish", which brings forth warm memories of his childhood.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' exaggerates this trope by having a French chef that tries to kill Homer Simpson after Homer gives him bad reviews.
* ''[[The Aristocats (Disney)|The Aristocats]]'' featured a dish called Prime Country Goose a la Provençale, which is apparently "stuffed with chestnuts" and "basted in white wine."
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' gives us an embodiment in the griffon chef Gustave le Grand.
 
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