I am pleased that the French government has been critical of the US government on the Iraq business (and it is a business, in the worst sense of the word) and so have no interest in making bad jokes about France or the French. However, THIS is the sort of thing worthy of critique.

I LOOOOOVE tasty food. I've eaten my way across a fair chunk of western Europe and North America and have had all sorts of wonderful experiences BUT it seems to me to be a profoundly silly thing to kill yourself over a restaurant rating. I know: it is a business, too. Still. It is food.

Did I mention that I'm not usually very competitive?