French Cuisine Is Haughty: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* 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).

* ''[[LA 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?"}}

* ''[[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."

 

== [[Video Games]] ==