To think French children fell out of the arse of Starship Perfection?

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First we were told they don't throw food, now today in the Sunday Times we are told they eat every morsel put in front of them. Should I move to France?

My SIL is a French dinner lady (cooks too) and had to be trained as a chef, the schools have very good 3 course meals with cheese boards etc! OTOH my PIL's French friends were amazed my DS ate olives and the only other child we met ate mostly crisps.

Not sure what that proves...

Horse crap. That is all.

Have to say the least fussy kids I ever knew were ethnic Bangladeshi. 2 families worth (cousins).
I mean, they were very nervous about observing Halal, and one was allergic to oranges, but otherwise they wolfed down anything & everything I offered. And were especially keen about spicy food, the spicier the better.

French children are on the whole better behaved than Brits, but have you seen how they are smacked and shouted at in public?

"take the ST" - love it.
So to sum up, it is unfair to generalise an entire nation (of course) but it seems to be a literary conspiracy to convince us the French do everything better. Marine Le Pen excepted, naturally.

British children act worse in general in a lot of respects compared with many countries. I'm very well travelled but I know it's a generalisation. It's just what I've observed.

French school groups were definitely the worse behaved tourists when I was in Oxford. A notice saying "Library-please be quiet" obviously meant that the entire group of 40-50 were welcome to sit there to have lunch. They were dreadful about being in the way and refusing to move when asked. And as for the comments from the police about their shoplifting habits...

When I went to yooni in France, I did notice that in general the French students made much better food choices than their English counterparts - lots of protein, veg and side salads, whereas we tended to focus on bread and potatoes and turned our noses up at side salads. I'd eat more like the French now but at 20 they were definitely making more sensible choices than their English equivalents, which probably reflects their upbringing somehow.

But when I stayed with a French family at school (as a veggie) I got served some minging food - a plate of green beans one night and a plate of sliced tomatoes another for dinner. A baguette with thick butter and chunks of chocolate for packed lunch!

Ha. I know a two French families and the children are precocious little shits.

Tis all stereotypical bollocks.