While people are preoccupied with big issues around the world, most notably the riots that ignited the cities of France after the killing of the young man, Nael, by police fire, and the ongoing war in Sudan in which there is no victim except the Sudanese people themselves, as well as the Russian-Ukrainian crisis that will come to nothing but everything in the two countries only, but Its effects will extend to the whole world, foreshadowing the outbreak of a third world war. While these events were taking place, another war of a funny kind flared up..but through Twitter.
During the Eid days, one of the accounts posted on “Twitter” a dish containing ingredients of meat, kofta, kibbeh and raw liver, accompanied by the comment “Eid food in Lebanon.” And this was the spark of initiation, as funny comments and give-and-take began, including: “But in the picture there is nothing cooked!”, “Where is this food? “I think these are the components of the suit.”
Then came the response, “Don’t eat, and let us eat…” and “Egypt is the woman of the world, but she can’t cook,” and “Someone says that Lebanese cuisine is international.”
Funny comments interspersed, such as “Egyptian cuisine came, and then came the date of cooking. You are the reward for you coming to Egypt and eating stuffed, molokhia, caraways, fish, and mambar every day,” and “Send me the ticket and the second day you will have it,” and “There is nothing worse than Egyptian food except Lebanese food”, and “You are a problem worker with the most digestible people, and there are 110 million people in it”, and “When Egypt lights up next time, by God, if it exists, I will give you the best restaurants.”
However, the “Twitter” debate was characterized by a pleasant comic spirit, with the overlapping of some clips, pictures and comic comments from Egyptian films and funny “emojis”, to preserve the gentle spirit of brotherhood that unites the two peoples.