FRENCH FOODS I HATE!!! 

As a French guy living in north America ... I feel so amused to see aaaaaaaaaaaall the food you hate are those I mise the most ! The "Tête de Veau" always been (by far) my favorite meal ... followed by the "Andouillette" and the "Tripes à la mode de Caen". I looooooooooove "Boudin noir" too but the "Boudin noir Antillais" is better. And for the "Foie gras" ... Simply cannot believe you don't like it : it's the sweetest of all. Just put a little piece over a "tranche de pain brioché" accompany with a glass of "Muscat de Rivesaltes" and voilà ! Le petit Jésus en culotte de velour.

Eating organ meat was quite common in rural, agricultural societies. If there was nutrition then you ate it. You didn't throw it away. When I was growing up we occasionally ate liver, tongue, pancreas, etc. Most older people found such food normal. Until 2010 Campbell's sold their Pepper Pot Soup. It had pieces of tripe in it. Tripe is very chewy, but the pieces in the soup were cut small. Most of the foods mentioned here are the result of necessity. If you get hungry enough you'll eat it.

As a french I find it funny that most of the foods you mention are the ones who are very dividing between french themselves. Organ meats usually fall in the "hate it or love it" category ; oysters are often hated by young children ; nutella or foie gras are often discarded by people who want to have an healthy meal... I personally love many of these dishes (apart from nutella, I'm not a sugar lover) ; but I'm very picky on where they come from : good quality artisan foie gras or andouillette is delicious, but supermarket versions are usually quite bad. Same goes for oysters : I love the super fresh ones from the coast, but buying some for christmas if I'm far from the sea is not an idea

Hey, french here. Just so you know, you put a picture of Etretat with the caption "La bretagne". Careful xD It's in Normandie and there is a small rivalry between thoses two region might gonna get yourself in trouble with locals lmao :D

I'm Cajun on my mom's side, and boudin is very common, but I've only ever seen boudin blanc (made with rice) in our family. I asked my mother about why I never saw the variations with blood in them, and she thought they were less common there for religious/ethical reasons, but evidently there are also regulations about blood in commercially produced food that would make it hard for most shops to do it legally. My family's mostly in the Lake Charles area, fwiw.

Foie-gras doesn't "require" force-feeding technically, as ducks and geese do overfeed themselves naturally to survive winter. Some rare producers still make foie-gras like this. But it's when you want foie gras all year long, and "more of it per bird", that you have to force-feed. Forcefeeding really started when foie gras (a historically peasant food) became trendy in richer populations, and it went crazy with the arrival of supermarkets and globalization that justified even more foie-gras making, all year long, bigger, cheaper, ...

I had an _andouillette_ once, thinking it was going to be similar to andouille sausage like we have in Louisiana. My French was not very quick then and I think the waiter tried to talk me out of it but I couldn't understand him. The _andouillette_ smelled like poop and was a bit nauseating, but with mustard on it it actually tasted okay. The people sitting next to me could smell it and were looking over at me and started asking me questions. At that point I was determined to look like I had ordered it on purpose and I ate the whole thing and washed it down with a lot of dark beer. The beer was excellent and I had some potatoes on the side that were also excellent. Then I rewarded myself with a piece of cake, tipped the waiter for his effort, and went for a long walk. All in all it was a great experience.

Le boudin noir farci aux pommes avec des pommes cuites en accompagnement est très différend du boudin généralement aux oignons. Pour le foie gras, tentez du foie gras qui vient de petits producteurs du Gers, vous changerez peut-être d'avis ou peut-être pas. Vous mangez des escargots et des cuisses de grenouilles, beaucoup de français n'en mangent pas. Idem pour les abats. Et puis comme on dit, les goûts et les couleurs, ça ne se discute pas. Je suis français mais je ne mange pas de fromage, pas d'abats, donc je comprends que vous n'aimiez pas certaines choses.

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Foie gras is one of the monument of the French food. Don't try the one you can by in supermarkets. But when it's home made, with a sweet white wine, it's absolutely delicious !

I was taught never to call any food disgusting. I just don't like it. If other people are enjoying it it is not disgusting.

LOL, NUTELLA, I did not see it coming at all! You took many of us by surprise here! Nutella on a good fresh warm crispy baguette at 4.30 right after school, it s my "madeleine of Proust" we are talking about here... Otherwise, my favourite french meal (and also of many french people in the north of france by the way) is "filet américain" (but is does not come from your country at all. "Filet américain" is a variation of steack tartare served with "frites". It is just so delicious (in my taste) but I know that for may foreigners it is something impossibble to even considering eating because of the raw meat. Have you ever tried it?

I had a similar experience when I was a child and my mom made me my favorite meal once a month and one day I realized it was calf brain... It was quite pricey and my mom thought she was treating me like a king. Good luck for the Holiday season, Diane...

I understand your perspective and I appreciate that you recognize those items upon which your host or hostess may have spent a great deal of time and effort. All I can think of is "Oh how lovely, you shouldn't have " and then quietly encouraging my dining partners to serve themselves generously with my portioon.

Between a foie gras or your chickens /beef/porc feed with hormone to accelerate their growth. I thing foie gra is the healthiest.

As an American living in France I have found every one of the products that you don’t care for absolutely delicious. I should mention that I eat only organic food therefore the quality may make some difference to some people. I literally love every single product you mentioned of course organic though.

Black pudding is wonderful!! We bake it in the oven. Being from Northern England it was a staple growing up. Slightly different texture but same principle. We have it with ham and eggs for breakfast. (We enjoy the Bourdin Blanc as well.) Tripe is another 'delicacy' which I am familiar with from Northern England. My dad loved it. He had it with vinegar and salt and pepper. I have never acquired the taste! I once had Tripe a la Mode de Caen and only managed two mouthfuls. It was a combination of taste and smell. Awful.

My husband and I love all of these, except for the andouillette and tripe. We're allergic to seafood, so the oysters are out, and the frog's legs are more trouble than they're worth, IMO. For some of these, it also depends on how they're prepared. When we were in Colorado, for example, we ate a lot of deer- in some restaurants, it was delightful; in others, I thought the taste was a little too gamey (although my husband loved it).

Well Diane, I understand your viewpoint as I was invited, while working in China, at a banquet (with Nanjing Mayor) to have sparrow's nest. I tasted it and didn't like it much to the horror of my Chinese colleague. I also understand the reluctance you may have with Foie Gras (force feeding), Caviar (you open the belly of the sturgeon), Oysters (you eat them alive). Yes BUT these are so delicious IF presented the right way: - Foie Gras, served at room temperature with fig jelly and special toast. Not ANY Foie gras is good though. - Oysters served on a Ice bed with lemmon juice and a bit of pepper. The best Oysters in France are in Saint Vaast-la-Hougue near Cherbourg. - Caviar served in a special Ice-cooled container, with sour cream, blinis and vodka I could continue like this, but really, when we have any of this, all conversations stop to focus on the delicious taste. Boudin noir: there are huge varieties and some are better forgotten but when with piment d'Espelette and mashed apples, it can be delicious (but definitely not the Top of French cuisine. I suspect you would not like the Tripes à la mode de Caen. Again it can be very insignificant (and hugly looking) but some are very tasty. I suppose each one of us has its own dislikes. Mine is with Frog legs, with Ortolans (small birds), but hey, its all a matter of a first encounter with the properly prepared dish and ambiance.

Apart from nutella, I would eat everything you mentioned any time, even at breakfast (oysters at that time of the day… what a great way to start the dat!) I noticed you tried those dishes only once… try it a few more times to get how great they are. Foie gras for instance with various types of pepper is magical… or panned… so different! Well… I doubt I’ll convince you, but honestly, those products are among the best you can eat, they are full of flavours, they are conforting… well juste love them.

I grew up in Louisiana. My grandfather was a fisherman and we always had seafood, seasonally. I can not choke down an oyster for all the money in the world! Haha But I do have fond memories of sitting with my dad on the back porch while he shucked oysters.

Boudin noir when well grilled accompagnied by sauté apples is really a treat 😋. But you have to appreciate garlic...

Well, most − or probably all − food is a matter of culture. Large part of the word eats insects, or spiders, scorpions, etc. where many other find it horrible. English people (and probably US too) were disgusted by the fact that some horse meat had been added to beef meat (well, it was a real problem, but for transparency and sanity, not for the meat itself). Most australians I know can't touch a rabbit meat, but it's very common in many countries. Snails or frogs are not that "strange", in particular when comparing with crabs (which are related to spiders), shrimps, or octopus. Pigs are horrible as meat for many cultures. And so on. The "disgusting" of organs is strange, also: eggs are kind of foetus, sausages were packed in casings before plastic arise (and it's a shame to use plastic for that…). Bones marrow is the richest part of animals in several cultures. Etc. Having difficulties to overcome our own "préjugés" is normal. And every one get it's own taste, whatever the initial culture. But, well, I'm not sure it worse it to share our own "food problems": they have no objective base, in particular in our societies with high sanity checks.

Tripes: intestines lining. I actually really love all the foods you mentioned!!!!

Your husband's experience with tripe is the opposite of mine and pumpkin pie. I was given a slice of pumpkin pie shortly after being successfully potty trained and I would not touch the filling (wonder why). I scraped it all off but did eat the crust. A year later I was again served pumpkin pie and tried a tiny bit at my mom's encouragement. I LIKED IT! It was nothing like I thought it was!

I've had foie gras and honestly reminded me of very earthy cream cheese, not my favorite thing but definitely different. I will add that there are foie gras that are free range duck or goose that just eat acorns, other nuts, and grains and naturally get fat for winter instead of the force feeding. But that's primarily done outside France from what I remember for producers that forgo traditional methods.

Andouillette is always a subject of big controversy: a famous french old politician (Herriot, Prime minister before WW2) said : "politics is like andouillette, it always smells a little bit like poop, but not too much". In fact, good andouillette doesn’t smell like poop at all, it you choose the good ones : the AAAAA labelled ones (Association des Amateurs d’Andouillette Artisanale Authentique)

Nice take on French dishes... Foie gras: I actually really like this, if it is good quality. I like it served with the cognac jelly you often see and on nicely toasted bread. Absolutely a ‘fêtes’ treat, and usually only eaten at Christmas, New Year etc.. Huitres: I used to love oysters. When I was living with my first wife in Paris, I would go down the the ‘Marché des Ternes’ at Christmas and get a ‘panier d’huitres’ and I loved them.. Fast forward to the beginning of Jacques Chirac’s first Presidency, when I was a Press photographer in the French presidential press. We were on a trip to Niort with the newly elected president and all the press corps went out for a meal in a seafood restaurant. I got a dozen oysters, as my 'entrée' and ate them.. But I had a bad one. Even before we left the restaurant I felt ill.. I spent a horrible night in the bathroom, I’ll spare the details.. The next morning feeling really rough I bumped into the Elysée doctor in the hotel lobby and told him of my woes.. He gave me a cocktail of pills so I wouldn’t puke all over the president during the first photo op of the day.. Boudin noir: When I was a kid I lived in the UK. My dad was a big fan of boudin noir, which in England is known as ‘Black pudding’.. He would serve this and I would woolf it down... Then one day he told me what it was... I nearly puked and have not touched it since... Abats: I think all the tripe and other ‘abats’ dishes are a hang over from the war, when any prime cut of meat was either rationed or too dear for most people. So they ate what they could afford, and the French being French made an elaborate dish out of modest ingredients... Like you I hate them all.. My grandfather on my mum's side was in the RAF during the war, and he swore till his dying day he would never again eat corned beef.. Andouillette: this has to be the worst.. It smells like’ poop’ as you say... I once turned up at a ‘Grill’ restaurant, when out on a photo assignment, and ordered one of my favourite (at the time steaks) un Onglet aux échalotes... It turned up and straight away it smelled horrible. I took one bite and couldn’t eat it.. I called the waiter over and said my Onglet tasted of Andouillette.. He apologised and took it away.. It transpired that the chef was grilling all the meats on the same open fire grill and had done my steak right after an andouilllette. Needless to s&ay even with the replacement steak, it had spoiled my meal..( these days while not full vegetarian, I don't eat red meat..often) Nutella: I first discovered this when I was about 13, (circa 1975) and went on a school exchange to Germany.. It was wonderful, and a year or so later we discovered it in a hotel in Brittany.. Me and my sister collected all the little single servings in the hotel dining room. Now I just find it so sickly sweet.. Thanks for your videos they always make me smile to see an American take on things that seem so everyday to a French/European... As most are similar in several countries in Europe.. And more notably France.. Bonne journée Gareth

I lived in the USA and I noticed that Merkans simply don't eat offal - kidney, liver, tripe so I can understand why they don't like that sort of thing in France. As a Brit, I love the English delicacies liver and onions, steak and kidney pie, tripe and onions, black pudding (made from pigs blood) (= English boudin noir) . So I feel at home with those things here in France. I think that foie gras is banned in Britain but I can see why the French like it as a special treat. I know the owners of a foie gras farm and I have seen the _gavage_ of geese. The geese did not seem to object - they lined up waiting their turn to be fed maize via a funnel. That is just my observation - I did not ask the geese what they thought about it. An English friend told me that Andouillette de Troyes is the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten. I think it's a sausage containing pigs intestines. Oysters can be dangerous - I don't know if it's because of allergy or because they have picked up sewage pollution. I've seen people very sick after eating them. I steer clear of them. Mushrooms gathered in the forest are dangerous also. The only way to be sure of not being seriously ill (or even dying) after eating mushrooms is to eat mushrooms only from the supermarket. My GF offered me mushrooms she had gathered in the forest and was hurt because I declined to eat them. Later that evening she spent several hours on her knees barking at the toilet. She said it was the first time she had been poisoned by gathered mushrooms.

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If you ever have the urge to make peanut butter and jam on bread (toasted or not), try it with PB + Nutella. Another option is to mix PB with tahini if you like things less sweet.

Nutella will probably be served in Heaven. Just sayin'. I definitely can eat it from the spoon. I first discovered it while living in Ukraine way back in 1996 and was thrilled when it started hitting American grocery shelves :)

Hey, i'm portuguese living in france, and love your chanel. The way i started to like oysters was with berrys vinaiger and echalotte...i'm not a fan of lemon with oysters. You can also cook the oysters, you don't have to eat it raw. Everything you said, i love it... except tripes... already tried multiple times and don't like it. But the boudin noir, its so good!

Beef tongue is amazing. Boil it in salute water in with lots of garlic. Once cooked, peel it, then Ali e it. Serve it with horseradish. It tastes like very tender beef.

Loved your energy in this video Diane. 💜I actually agree with you on all of them, even the Nutella! Well, I don't dislike it in the sense that I will eat it if it's offered, but I won't choose to eat it and I much prefer the pâtes à tartiner that are just straight chocolate with no hazelnut flavor. That being said, I do enjoy dark chocolate with whole hazelnuts. (I'm the same with anything strawberry banana - I like them individually, even as whole fruit in the same bite, but not when the flavors are mixed.) I actually wish I could enjoy all the abats...I feel like it's more respectful to eat as much of the animal as possible and not waste. Unfortunately I just can't do it.

6:22 Mexicans eat a similar soup called "Menudo". It is an acquired taste. I did not enjoy eating it until I was in my twenties.

Another really interesting video Diane! I’m not a Foie Gras fan either, more because of how it is produced…I actually like the taste but would feel guilty eating it. I do love both oysters and boudin noir though. In the UK we have black pudding….a blood sausage that uses oatmeal as well and so it has a firmer texture. My husband isn’t a fan of boudin noir because it is that bit more quivery than our black pudding. I ate a boudin noir and apple pizza in Normandy once and that was so wrong and so right! But Andouillette….oh no….I have tried it….it is such a delicacy in the Touraine where we spend most of our time in France….but it does taste as bad as it smells and that really is saying something. Our biggest accident with food in France was about 15 years ago, when our French was a bit limited and our vocabulary let us down. We had enough skills to order a meal…just not enough to notice the difference between Ris and Riz and so we ordered Ris de Veau. As soon as the dishes appeared we knew we had made a terrible mistake. Calves Brains do taste quite nice….but the texture was a bit of a challenge…..and they did look very brainy for want of a better word. Never again. We were very polite and ate them all up though!

The tripe soup story is great! I have a friend who used to love eggs until about 12 years old when she found out exactly where bird eggs "come from." Developed a deep aversion to them that is still active 30 years later!!

Hi Diane, from your list, I've only tried snails on one of my French trips, and I don't like or dislike it. The other items on your list would not appeal to me, either, except for the Nutella. I love crepes made with Nutella, but because it's high in fat, I only eat it when I'm in France. 😊

I'm allergic to raw oysters but a good friend grilled some for me and then was happy to eat them,he explained that cooking them killed the thing that created the problem

"Foie gras" is very old and not at all a French invention. It is a natural process for palmipeds which fatten before migrating. It was discovered in Mesopotamia when humans ate migrating geese. The firsts to try to replicate the process were the Egyptians at the time of the pharaohs. They tried to fatten all sorts of animals, including hyenas. But it worked only with palmipeds since they have this natural capacity to fatten before migrating which impacts their liver. From Egypt, the practice travelled with the Greeks to Rome and the Hebrews to the rest of Europe.

As a French, I do agree with you for most of this episode...But, I love Good foie gras, especially " mi-cuit" and I recommend you to taste two "abats" : tongue ans especially smoked tongue from Britany and "onglet". It s truly delicious. For me, my worst food experience is "cervelle" but hopefullu, it almost vanish. Abats et tripes was a very affordable way to eat meat and It has kwown a golden age during WW. It's very important to keep that in mind.

Diane, you're asking for trouble with the anti-Nutella comments! 😁 That stuff is good, though the palm oil probably isn't. You didn't mention whether you've tried horse meat, which I've had in Switzerland. I'm not a fan of it or any exotic animals.🎃

As a brit I have to say oysters are a favourite, sitting on the harbour wall with a crate just bought on the quayside. Heaven! Boudin noir I love too, sometimes they add apple to sweeten it, I prefer without. Foie gras really depends on the producer I find, but I eat it less now than I used to. A foie gras sandwich is special though! Andouillette scared me to begin with. I made a point of eating it the first time I went to Lyon. Boy am I glad I did! Love it! Tête de veau I have never tasted. It was Jacques Chirac's favourite, so he said! Tripe, non merci! Nutella. Never eat the stuff! But I love gianduja!

I'm onboard with your list (although prior to becoming vegan, I did enjoy oysters and Nutella). I do enjoy hazelnut and chocolate, but try to find a dairy-free, palm oil free alternatives.

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I agree with you. Tripe is just offal.

At 3:17 picture shows Etretat which is not in Brittany but in Normandy which is a very nice place as well.

Oh, dear! 😂 I confess - I love Nutella! Germans tend to think of it as something that only children eat, so we adults have to hide our love of it a bit (but only a bit!). Blood sausage is very common in Germany as well. My family (USA) on my father’s side was essentially German, and when I was a child, we butchered pigs ourselves and always made blood sausage and other things, so I grew up with it and always liked it. Still do. I adore foie gras, but I have to ignore how it is produced. I’ve never tried tripe, but I generally like offal (used to eat brains regularly with a good friend, but we stopped when BSE came along). Liver, kidney, sweetbreads - yum! Snails - yes, please! But I agree it’s primarily the buttery sauce that goes with them. And again, when I was growing up in rural Texas, we hunted bullfrogs and ate them. No problems with that.

France is not the only country to eat those meats. Some Mexican restaurants and taco stands serve not only the traditional beef, chicken and pork meat but everything in them such as lengua (tongue), cabeza (head meat from cow), tripa (tripe) usually eaten in Menudo. It depends on how its cooked and looks like before I eat it.

For French fast food I love the cheese crepes! My preferance is to try a selection of small portions of savoury (from a deli) over sweet, such as from the very small Francart Maison Gourmande in Paris. ❤😍❤ Although I have really enjoyed the mini desserts from Angelina's. ❤

My Spanish host mom in college didn’t tell me before serving me morcilla (boudin noir), and it was something I never would have tried willingly. As it turns out, I actually love it, but I also think if I had known what it was at the time I wouldn’t have enjoyed it.

5:38 this looks very much like Spanish morcilla - it's also blood sausage but filled with rice, the flavor is quite different

Pretty much in agreement on all of these, Diane! Thank you, this one was really fun. And I just picked up a Bonne Maman Advent calendar from myPanier for my kids along with some other goodies. Thank you!

I like this food, because I'm french. Perhaps !🤔 But my vegetarian American friend eats this food. Try it, ask French people to share this food, to explain how you can eat them... Le boudin, it's so delicious with applesauce ( une compote ou pommes à la poêle)... Andouillette dishes are really strange: but in Lyon, these sausages are served with mustard sauce, it's really handsome ! Enjoy what you eat, tasting smelling chewing... are really essential!😊😋

*OMG I could not live without Foie Gras !!!*

Hi Diane, I share your aversion for organ meats, most especially duck liver. Can’t get on board with the whole concept, so although I thoroughly enjoy many French foods and their preparation, I cannot go for four gras or even other organ type foods. Oysters I have enjoyed only on occasion, ( twice in my life), and other seafoods as well. And most especially all sweet type foods are a real weakness for me. I just shun organ type dishes.

Oysters are very popular in Belgium too, as is foi gras. I don't like fois gras, but do love oysters. My wife and I spent a long weekend in Brittany years ago; the hostess has oysters on the menu and just knew we we going to order them - she even knew the Dutch (Flemish) word for them | oester | because so many of her Belgian guests would order them

Puerto Ricans also eat blood sausage. Morcilla. It is stuffed with rice. Delicious.

Hi, funny, I could have listed 80% of the products that "wouldn't pass 😉 " There are a few that I struggle with, but others that are really to my liking. Like the oysters that I eat without lemon or shallot vinegar sauce but which I don't know why have an effect.... Aphrodisiac. I like the tripe prepared very hot with boiled potatoes. A good black boudin well roasted whis onions and a delicious mashed potato. (black boudin is usually made with pork blood and aromatics). There is plenty of iron in the black boudin A quality andouillette all browned with nice fries and mustard On the other hand the nutella and the foie gras yeah I'm not really a fan. I just wanted to tell you that sometimes people's taste evolves with age and according to the cook in the kitchen. My husband didn't like tripe or blanquette de veau. I offered him to try it again years later and without having become a big consumer of these dishes, he appreciates them and can share a meal with me without being put off. Maybe in 5 or 10 years you will be surprised to finally realize that some of these dishes served at the right time in the right place and cooked by the right person will please you.

Ma chère Diane, je regrette que vous n'appréciez cette partie de notre culture culinaire ancestrale. Pour les huitres, il n'y a pas que Cancale, on en trouve pratiquement sur toutes les côtes françaises. (Étretat n'est pas en Bretagne mais en Normandie ... je parle de la vue dans votre vidéo). Personnellement, j'aime tout ce que vous n'aimez pas (le foie gras, de préférence de canard, les tripes surtout à "la mode de Caen", le boudin noir avec des pommes, flambé au calvados et enfin les huitres que j'achète chez l’ostréiculteur au bout de ma rue (je réside en Vendée à 500 m de la mer) 🙂. Le Nutella vendu en France est fabriqué en France, en Normandie pour être précis. Merci pour tous vos points de vue sur la vie en France. Bonne continuation

I agree with you. I do not eat things like liver, tongue, tripe, brains, or other organ foods or oysters or mussels or calamari.The French don't have a monopoly on eating gross things. When my grandfather got to the point he couldn't live alone, so he moved in with my parents. I was at university and home for the summer. I was going to go to the grocery and I asked my grandfather if there was anything he wanted. He said "I'd like a good mess of brains." I asked my mother where I could get them and she said that the man in charge of the meat department should have some and he did. I paid for a 2-quart container of them. I carried the bag into the house holding it out in front of me with just my thumb and index finger and I said here they are. I don't even want to be in the house when you cook them. I'll take my poison in a form I'm used to and went to McDonald's. For the record she used eggs that she scrambled and mixed the brains with the raw eggs so that they were completely mixed together. My grandfather ate most of them and my dad finshed what grandfather couldn't eat. I was just 19 years old and just the idea of eating that grossed me out! Grandfather grew up on a farm and every part of the animal was eaten in some way. I'm 58 and I still can't bring myself to eat things like that. EW!!!!!

As an American we ate tripe fried when I was a kid. The British eat it steamed in milk (or maybe that’s just the Scottish) Here a trip soup is a Mexican dish called menudo. It’s a modern substitution from when the Mayans made it with human meat after a sacrifice.

I'm from Louisiana and most Boudin sold in stores is not made with blood. It's a combination of pork, rice and spices. Some may be darker than other but I've never seen it as dark as the one in the video, actually most are very light in color.

when i was a kid and we got home from the butcher's my mom would munch on raw tripes like they were chips. I'm judging but i got her habit she got from her mom to eat fries with raw beaten eggs and mayo, sooooo... In belgium, tete de veau is more common as a charcuterie served in sliced (probably prepared like a paté) we have tete de veau that is brown and tête de veau en tortue that is prepared in some type of tomato sauce i believe

Etretat in Brittany? Is it a provocation? People from brittany are planning to invade us? Remember that god created alcohol to prevent brittany to rule the world 😂

I'm with you on Nutella, I never understood the appeal, but then again we didn't grow up with that, we did grow up with peanut butter and I eat it regularly here in France and many French feel in general about peanut butter the way I feel about Nutella. However, I think snails are very over-rated, overpriced, the texture is too weird for me but yeah, the beurre is the best thing about it.

Sorry but if you really look how ducks and geeses are stuffed, it's not brutal. Each feeding lasts only a few seconds and these animals have an adapted digestive system, man only reproduces a natural behavior of the animal. People usually have anthropomorphic reactions (they imagine how they would feel if the same was done to them, but they’re not migratory birds like ducks and geeses). And by the way, « faux gras » is an aberration, full of additives and artificial flavors to mimic foie gras. If people are vegans, they shouldn’t eat that industrial crap 😊

Hi Diane, I’ve tried all the foods you mentioned and liked all of them, except andouillette, I don’t think I’ll eat that again. When in Lyon I always make it a point to eat the organ meat dishes that are a famous part of Lyonnaise cuisine. Obviously, these dishes are not for everyone, but I think Americans tend to be particularly unadventurous when it comes to trying new foods.

It's ok not to like foi gras, but before you say the ducks are mistreated, better go an look for yourself. I have been to a goose farm in Thonac. The geese have plenty of water, big trees to be in the shade when it's sunny and when they take out the equipment to feed them, they walk right to it. They know they are going to get a belly full. Are they mistreated? I think if they didn't like what was happening to them, they would not gather like that.

I agree with Diane about everything on this list. There are some cheeses I avoid like the plague too.

In Mexico they have mole saulsa that comes in jars. It seem to be the nutella of Mexico. The kids are nuts about it, as a snack.

Try the figatelli, out of pigs liver and meat. It's a Corse speciality and it's just soooo yummy raw or warmed on bread or on a pizza ! Get them from Grand Frai (the store) as it's behind the counter, away from random ppl touching it.

Diane, I agree with all the stuff you hate, except for the boudin, which is black pudding in the UK and served for... breakfast ! Like you, I cannot stand foie gras or any inner organ, but snails, when they are very well made are heaven ! As for the boudin, I'm lucky enough to live in the countryside of France; there is a great butcher who does it himself and only in fall and winter, because of the blood, too dangerous to handle during the warmer seasons. Grilled in the oven and served with fries and a salad, it's absolutely to die for :)

I AM WITH YOU ON YOUR CHOICE OF FOODS YOU DON'T LIKE....EACH AND EVERY ONE YOU DISCUSSED -- I CANNOT STAND. I'D RATHER EAT TREE BARK🤣

I tuned in to learn what foods I don't like. 1. As a kid, I routinely ate roasted chicken talons cooked over a gas flame and organ meats . . . so much so that I don't want to eat it any more. 2. I like snails and roasted pig's feet. I used to make the snails. Now I simply order these in restaurants. 3. You mentioned cow heads. Hadn't seen them in France. I became an expert in choosing goat heads.

The foods you mentioned up to Nutella, which is indeed adored by the French (my parents used to joke I prepared du Nutella au pain, and not the other way round), fall in the category of "acquired taste". I used to hate andouille or andouillette, love it now, same with blood sausage, always loved foie gras but just stopped eating it for obvious reasons (though it's so good!), I'm in the process of liking oysters (one at a time, round Christmas time), though I will never ever allow myself to like tripes (à la mode de Caen) because the smell is just awful.

When I was a kid Julia Child was still on TV and French was in. I also live near the Atlantic and I do not eat raw seafood. Oysters are great if you get them breaded and fried as in Virginia. I like hazelnut but Nutella is probably the only chocolate thing I hate. I think I also had foie gras before PETA came along and didn't like it. Tripe, Brain and so on used to be more available here. My adventure with snail salad was Italian and it was a rubber band worse than poorly cooked calamari (octopus). I had Irish blood sausage at a bed and breakfast. My friends were being all don't ask what's in it and told me to eat some before they would tell me. It was OK. They said I'd never guess what was in it. I told them blood. Then the Hostess was pleased I tried it and we discussed ingredients.

as french i didnt have all the french food you mentionned- none-, but Nutella Nutella is very greasy & sweet so even if i like eat on a baguette, i avoid it

Oysters. I knew a couple in Newfoundland. He a Newfoundlander and a real meat and potato guy. She was from France and couldn't get him into French cuisine. That was until at Francophone Assoiciatio dinner. He was dared to try oysters and discovered he enjoyed them. Seemed like he ate a few platefuls. As for boudin, good old blood pudding. It was something very available when I grew up in Newfoundland but hatd to come by in Western Canada. When I visit the UK or Ireland, I always enjoy eating it with breakfast. Do the French have something similar to Steak and Kidney Pie?

There a lot of people who love tripe, there are tripe clubs where they meet and cook tripe served with different sauces

3:15 i love bretagne *shows normandy landscape*

Blood sausage is great. In Ireland it’s oats nside. Also haggis in scotland is like your andouille

I lived in the south of France for a few years, in I loved all the foods you mention. Yummm Even brain that you don’t mention

Boudin, I love it. Also tripe delicious.

The only thing I enjoyed in france are the pastries(except for croissants) baguette, & onion soup. The croissants I tried in Paris were good but they were not great. I had high expectation and my homemade croissants are better. The baguettes were on a different level. It was the best thing I thing I ever tasted. I tried making it at home and it’s not the same.

LOL As a French person living in the US ( forever )- I agree with 2 of the food I could not stand (I am now a vegetarian) TRIPES and Andouillette berk!!!! I've tried so many times but couldn't stomach it. But the rest, loved it. Boudin noir, oysters, foie gras, etc...

I’m french and I hate all the foods you mentioned, except for foie gras which I eat once around the christmas holidays, but not more than that because I get disgusted by it easily. But I also hate lots of other french foods, notably cheese. I absolutely hate it, don’t understand what people can enjoy about it, and I run away from the table when people start eating it.

Frogs' legs is indeed a rare dish here in France. You have to put a lot of pepper otherwise it is tasteless.

Hello, french here ! You basically listed everything I love ! Yum ! Huîtres, escargots, boudin noir, andouillette, tête de veau sauce gribiche, tripoux.... Délicieux ! But I absolutely understand that it can sound weird and/or disgusting to people who do not have these in their cultural habits. By the way, oysters in the USA are a real treat ! Being french, I usually eat oysters raw (and live) with just a drop of lemon juice or white wine shallot sauce.... But once in South Carolina for Christmas time, my American father made us taste a delicacy of the South: roaster oysters ! I am not used to cooked oysters but I have to say, that was absolutely delicious, and so fun to be around the barbecue in December, with our woolen sweaters and warming up beside the fire pit, having a glass of white wine with our roasted oysters ! I loved it 😊 Some popular french food I do NOT like : - Camembert (way overhyped IMO ! I immensely prefer a Cantal or a Munster) - Rognons (it stinks..... I know I like andouillette which stinks too, but rognons I just can't) - Boudin Blanc (I find the boudin noir delicious, and the boudin blanc repulsive) So it's just a question of personal taste....

Foie gras, huitres? OUI!! Le reste? BEURK! I've lived in France for over 50 years. My mother-in-law (RIP) used to make a stew of calves' liver, heart, tongue and other body parts. My brother was visiting and had three helpings! He proudly went home to the States and bragged about how brave he was... (I just ate bread and butter during that meal...)

Man. I usually watch these videos on my lunch break. I'll be more careful from now on. Ughhhh......

Cow tongue! Smoked and dried, or boiled in aspic (or even both)! Ambrozia!

I agree about the organ meat. I do like pâte de campagne. Had the best lunch in Concale!

I always thought about Nutella like a kind of a French analogue to the peanut butter in US. :) I could never understand why most of the Americans love so much that thing.

I love Nutella. It makes a great sandwich becasue it has the basic consistency of peanut butter. I mix it with cream cheese and use a graham cracker crust and it makes a sinfully good pie that doesn't have to be baked. There are some dessert cookbooks that all the recipes use Nutella. I find it yummy!

Tripe is very popular in the American Southwest. It is best known in Mexican menudo, a delicious soup with calf knuckles. I have loved it since I was a kid. Food is a vast subject. You might try "animelles"(couilles de mouton)--Rocky Mountain Oysters in the American West. Many years ago a girlfriend's mother had a farm in Charente. On a visit, she was having a man slaughter a sheep and carve it up to be stored frozen for later consumption. She cooked some up for me and they were great. She also probably wanted to see how I would react. Oysters can be cooked, very quickly though. There are unfortunate cases of recalls of fresh food in the US too. Other foods available are pigs feet, horse meat, cow tongue, ris de veau, brains, sea urchins(Oursins), "bulots", "fromage de tête", etc. You should try some rarer alcohols too, such as absinthe and, though it is not French, Fernet-Branca.

I love lengua tacos and burritos. Never would have thought it'd like that 🤣 I tried escargot for the first time in Paris a few weeks and it was delicious! Didn't eat somewhere where they had frogs legs but I wanted to 😊

Scottish person here, but I live in England and am a frequent visitor to France, lived there for a year and a lifelong Francophile since attending exchange school in my teens a VERY long time ago. The only two things I can’t manage are tripe and andouillette. Oysters, snails, frogs legs, pate de foie gras - no problem (the latter on brioche toast with the little glass of Montbazillac - yum). Still, I come from the place where the national dish is an illegal import in the USA because of its offal content and has a name - Haggis - which is allegedly derived from the French word “hachis” (chopped, minced). But Nutella? Nutella’s Italian, isn’t it? On the subject of andouillette, a little anecdote. There was a famous, very knowledgeable (and rather posh) wine writer in the 80s and 90s in the U.K. called Jilly Goolden, who made a series of TV programmes on the great wine regions of France. While in the Champagne region she was persuaded to try andouillette for lunch in Troyes. In her very posh voice and with a straight face, she pronounced that it “smells - and tastes - much as I imagine a pig’s bum must”. I couldn’t have put it better.

I guess no opinion is going to change after this video or the comments. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to offer my contribution. Tripes (inner layer of bovine stomach) stink badly. There are, however, some methods to clean them up so that no smell remains in the final dish. They include soaking the pieces in salty water with lemon juice or vinegar or a combination of both. Some people say cornmeal does wonders. After getting rid of the smell, one has to cook the meat. Only then, the tripes can be used as (part of) a soup or fried like a fish. Tripes were served by my mother and I found them delicious. My wife hates it, so I’m missing it for more than forty years now 😅❗️