We were near deafened by all the shrill pinko indignation about President Trump’s (and Israel’s) decision to quit UNESCO last September…
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…because of UNESCO’s constant anti-Israel bias.
Trump Administration Is Pulling US Out of UNESCO
But now we have to face up to the shocking and short-sighted folly of Trump’s move, with the news that UNESCO has a vital role to play in the preservation of those long loaves best eaten toasted with cheese…
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…and sometimes bacon – at least that’s how I like to eat them!
French president Emmanuel Macron has said baguettes should be recognised as a cultural treasure and placed on Unesco’s Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Defend the Baguette!
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“The baguette is the envy of the whole world.”
I would have thought that if enough people like baguettes then the demand will ensure a supply, without the intrusion of supranational pen-pushers.
However, I’d never have guessed that long French loaves – or any other food-stuffs – would require a pack of cosmopolitan bureaucrats frolicking around UNESCO’s multi-million dollar palace in Paris…
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….drawing handsome salaries in order to provide the ‘protected status‘ Macron is seeking.
Did YOU know that all the millions your government (unless you’re American or Israeli) hands over to UNESCO includes those protectors‘ salaries?
How many other ridiculous jobs are funded from your taxes? How many other foodstuffs are ‘protected’ by time-serving bureaucrats?
Well, PIZZA, for starters! Or main course, maybe?
According to the same EuroNews report, Naples convinced the UN’s cultural body to offer pizza a protected status.
Macron wants French baguettes UNESCO listed
OMG!
Where’s the diversity?
What about Scots haggis? Or the good old-fashioned Ulster Fry breakfast? Or North American hot-dogs? Or, my own culinary nirvana…
FISH AND CHIPS?
The need for protection of that ‘food of the gods’ – really only produced properly in the UK or OZ, is vividly illustrated by my search therefor in Jakarta…
….where McGettigan’s, in posh Kuningan, does a magnificent job, but most other places fall well short, often disastrously short.
PS – Somebody will no doubt gloatingly advise me that some or all of the above are already on UNESCO’s lists.
Which will only go to prove my point!
Vanessa are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Vanessa 18:42 on January 15, 2018 Permalink |
Ross, are you having another tech problem?
I tried to comment three times but each time it came back saying no access.
I am trying again now so I hope it gets to you.
All I want to say is- if this is how UNESCO wastes money it obtains from your country and from mine, I think it is shocking.
Think of all the serious problems that money could go towards.
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ross1948 23:02 on January 15, 2018 Permalink |
Yes, Vanessa, more problems. Stats only partly visible. Comments? Far fewer than usual, so clearly access problems, but now you are through, and I see another.
Perhaps it has sorted itself!,
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