Attacked for summing the French gastronomy at “a good wine, good meat, a good cheese”, the candidate of the Communist Party went on Tuesday in a Boucherie school in Paris. The opportunity to transform the polemic into operation for its campaign.
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“Then it advances? Look at your knives and your hands guys!” The morning draws at its end, Tuesday, January 18, and the workshop leader of the professional school of Boucherie, in Paris, puts back on Order in the rows of balls after the passage of the communist candidate in the presidential election, Fabien Roussel. Today, students train at the cut of calf pieces. On January 9, on France 3, the member of the north made a statement: “A good wine, a good meat, a good cheese: it is the French gastronomy.” A sentence that has become a source of an endless controversy on the Social networks, which brings, on Tuesday, the candidate to devote a full-fledged movement to this symbolic steak.
He passes between the apprentices held to deserver, none and degrease, asks them what brings them here. “I am passionate about beef,” answers one, while another tells a reconversion chosen after a cashier experience. With its definition of gastronomy, Fabien Roussel put his feet in cultural cleavages even clichés, between an ecologist left and vegetarian on one side, another carnivore on the other, one of the cities, the other of the fields , from the elite, of the people, and another thousand other semantico-political subtleties. But what was reproached for him exceeded this field.
In the form, these words were first attacked on the same mode as those of the candidate the Republicans, Valérie Pécresse, in December. “Being French is to have a Christmas tree, it is to eat foie gras, it is electing Miss France and it is the Tour de France,” she said. We therefore reproached the Communist MP to restrict the definition of this “French gastronomy”.
The ecologist Sandrine Rousseau reminded him, on Twitter, that the couscous was the favorite dish of the French. Online, other commentators went further by estimating that he resumed aspects of the extreme right, even, according to a testimony heard in a space of dialogue organized by Journalist Taha Bouhafs, whom he launched Calls from the foot to the “white supremacy”, on the air of the “sausage pinard” aperions expensive to identities.
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Communists first fallen from their chair, recalled that they once had been accused of eating children. Since then, they try to regain your hand in this sequence. “This controversy, she’s hurtful, reacted Tuesday Fabien Roussel, she is revealing a debate at the daisies … to stay on the ground cows.” Never miser joke, the candidate intends to take a position against junk food for a quality of quality, accessible to all. It is necessary to “eat less meat, but better”, boasts the “French outdoor breeding” and organizes around the meat a whole countryside, between youth employment – the dozen apprentices who is busy is assured of finding a job, according to the director – and food autonomy.
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