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* In the second ''Film/{{Trinity}}'' movie, the two borderline-illiterate outlaw brothers suddenly find themselves really rich, buy smart suits and go to an expensive French restaurant. HilarityEnsues.
* ''LAStory'' 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 LargeHam perfection by PatrickStewart.
-->"You can't have the duck. Do you think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?"

FrenchCuisineIsHaughty refers to the association in many works of fiction between French cooking and high class gourmet dining. For factual information about French cusine, see UsefulNotes.SnailsAndSoOn and TheOtherWiki article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cuisine French cuisine.]]

SubTrope to TrueArtIsForeign and HollywoodCuisine. Compare to FrenchJerk for a character type common to the French restaurant, and ChezRestaurant for a naming convention commonly used to make things sound high-class.

FrenchCuisineIsHaughty refers to the association in many works of fiction (not to mention RealLife) between French cooking and high class gourmet dining. For factual information about French cusine, see UsefulNotes.SnailsAndSoOn and TheOtherWiki article on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cuisine French cuisine.]]

FrenchCuisineIsHaughty refers to the association in many works of fiction (not to mention RealLife) between French cooking and high class gourmet dining.

* This trope was averted by Napoleon Bonaparte. Although he was the Emperor of France, he hired an ''Italian'' personal chef.

* During the Ancien Regime, the nobles were keen on having the best cuisine in all of Europe. When the nobles were killed or exiled during TheFrenchRevolution, their cooks and such were hired by rich bourgeoise instead.

* In ''NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation'' the Griswolds go to a French restaurant and are served by an incredibly rude and insulting waiter who tells them (in French) that he'll serve them dishwater rather than what they actually ordered because they won't be able to tell the difference, then he makes lewd remarks about Helen and Audrey before telling Clark "go fuck yourself."

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If the French chef he doesn't work at a high class restaurant, he will be the personal chef for an upperclass household. Indeed, there was once a time where the French chef was considered as indispensable a part of the standard wealthy person's domestic staff as the FrenchMaid.

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* There is a common saying, with several variations, that "Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss."

* PGWodehouse, in his ''JeevesAndWooster'' stories, has Anatole, a French chef of renown that is on the private staff of an British upperclass family. He tends to be very temperamental and prone to threatening to quit whenever he feels like his work is not being appreciated.

* ''Anime/YumeiroPatissier'' has the lead character study to be a pâtissièrein a French baking school.

* Sanji from OnePiece uses GratuitousFrench to name his techniques in the original Japanese.

* In November 2010 the French gastronomy was added by UNESCO to its lists of the world's "intangible cultural heritage"

* ''AntiqueBakery'': The titular cake shop has a menu entirely in French to evoke this idea, the head patissiere (sp?) learned his trade and title in France, and the apprentice goes to France for advanced cuisine instruction. The waitstaff, thankfully, don't manage the snooty part of the stereotype.

** Of course, the {{National Seterotype|s}} of awful British food (except for breakfasts) was fully in action, and there are several things there (such as boiling meat) that the French consider heresy.

* ''Disney/TheAristocats'' featured a dish called Prime Country Goose a la Provencale, which is apparantly "stuffed with chestnuts" and "basted in white wine."

* In a more negative interpritation of the stereotype, the (at the time) French President Jacques Chirac was quoted as saying "[Britain] has the second worst food in the world, next to Finland" when London and Paris were vying for the 2012 Olympics (causing several British papers to dub him "Jacques-Ass"). This may or may not have had an effect on the final decision (the games were awarded to London).