MORE G8 BLOGGING. While Tony Blair is contemplating the future of Europe, Jacques Chirac is thinking about food and expressing, again, his snobbery and conceit as a Frenchman. He was probably wearing Capri pants, too.

Chirac said: "The only thing [the British] have ever given European farming is mad cow." He followed that by saying "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland, it's the country with the worst food."

No wonder France is in trouble.