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How the team is assembled matters. Of heaven and hell:

In heaven, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, the mechanics are German, the police are British, and everything is organised by the Swiss.

In hell, the cooks are British, the lovers are Swiss, the mechanics are French, the police are German, and everything is organised by the Italians.

Ah but individuals are more complicated than national stereotypes!

And that is a very old joke, from the 19th or early 20th century, when the world was Euro-centric.

From the number of cooking programs on my TV with british cooks at the moment I would assume the british have upped the game a bit on cooking :-)

How many are curries or other imports? ;-)

(Says the cat who's been home-baking crumpets.)