I received one of those silly emails we all get from our "silly email obsessed friends who send you 10 emails a day of which only about 1% are actually funny"

Anyway, I was interested in one that said simply:

Heaven is Where:
The Police are British,
The Chefs are Italian,
The Mechanics are German,
The Lovers are French
and
It's all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is Where:
The Police are German,
The Chefs are British,
The Mechanics are French,
The Lovers are Swiss
and
It's all organized by the Italians

Don’t you find that stereotyping is often offensive but always fun and interesting?

My opinions on this are as follows:

Heaven: Italian Chefs? – yes, I guess I could go with that. I hope it does not offend too many French people as their cuisine is also somewhat infamous.

Hell: I personally would have gone with the "Chef's are German" - at a traditional German restaurant I ate at in Dusseldorf I could not read the menu. Typically I can take a shot at it and work most things out.

A bi-lingual friend translated the menu word for word, and oh my god with was an offal-fest. All the bits that we would put in the garbage were celebrated as a delicacy. So this just goes to show that one mans idea of a great meal is another man’s idea of a blood bath.

The British have a wide variety of food, some awful, the rest… well Yorkshire puddings, cheese scones... I would say deadly but nice.

It just goes to show that our perceptions of food are ours, who has the right to tell other people what to eat or what tastes good?

I bet we could all re-write this list based on our personal tastes

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