FRENCH President Jacques Chirac told the leaders of Russia and Germany during discussions on Britain and the EU that you can’t trust people who have such bad food and whose only contribution to agriculture was mad cow disease.

Downing Street tonight brushed aside a series of anti-British jibes by French President Jacques Chirac.

French President Jacques Chirac took a moment during a weekend meeting with the leaders of Russia and Germany to make jokes about British food and mad cow disease, according to a French newspaper today.