Sometimes they hate each other. They often disagree.
And yet, they have to sit down together and share a meal where the exchange of pleasantries between two bites can cause stomach cramps...
Fortunately, French cuisine is there to to sublimate this delicate exercise in diplomatic hypocrisy that defines a state meal.
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