A new social media war has broken out between Lebanese and Egyptian Twitter over who has better food. The battle was launched after @salmichka shared a photo of Eid lunch filled with the Lebanese staple of la7me nayye.
todays eid lunch🇱🇧 pic.twitter.com/3EljL5I937
— salma (@salmichka) June 28, 2023
This drew a slew of quote tweets and comments predominantly from Egyptian Twitter. This was followed by a tweet from the always hilarious @Jardedkushnerleb about how Egypt may be set-el-dunya but they really do not know what they’re doing when it comes to food.
المصريّين أصحاب أحد أسوأ المطابخ بالعالم عم يعلّقوا عالأكل اللبناني، مصر ستّ الدنيا بس متعرفش تطبخ. https://t.co/d1Tt5T9xRA
— جاريد كوشنير (@Jaredkushnerleb) June 30, 2023
Here’s a glance at the best of the subsequent tweetstorm:
atleast we can afford to eat https://t.co/GXOSEeuCJ9 pic.twitter.com/LPfQ9fmgi2
— may (@mayystalk) June 30, 2023
Lebanese food is overrated besraha mafhosh haga gher el mana2esh we the Syrian one is much better fa msh fahma homa bytklemo lehhh https://t.co/aRsvB9gySC
— f (@fattmaayr) June 30, 2023
Egyptians getting mad over this tweet is so funny to me bc they know it’s true which is why they pulled the bad economy card in the qrts 😂 https://t.co/YyZPqzQQXu
— reem🌻 (@reemsreputation) July 1, 2023
On a side note, they cooked him in the QTs better than they cook their food😂 https://t.co/v4eG6jgFZi
— stefany hoyeck (@stefanyhoyeck) June 30, 2023
the lebanese’s beef with Egyptian cuisine is so raw (pun intended) https://t.co/tas0XRD0rk
— r (@Ros09819759) June 30, 2023
and he’s right, like who’s going around saying ‘mmmmmmm im craving some koshari” ? absolutely no one https://t.co/WaP89yKcS5
— رشا✧ (@mylifezjm) July 1, 2023
nhar abook eswed https://t.co/7in4aQCx9x
— lujayne (@rebelogyy) July 1, 2023
Reading all the quotes to this tweet in an Egyptian accent and laughing so hard https://t.co/0BRDZo7Bgs
— 👻 (@ismaellini) June 30, 2023
كده الكهربا بتيجي في لبنان من الساعة 5 للساعة 6 استنوه بكرة يرد عليكم بقى https://t.co/gPLCb9PxyC
— Mohamed salah (@Mosala7_27) June 30, 2023
مباشر من ميدان التحرير… كلن بالكوت تويتس عندو. https://t.co/hVv9NJ2DSM pic.twitter.com/q2ZLwyXc9g
— Falafel 🧆 🇱🇧 (@FalafelOfficial) June 30, 2023
له عين يتريق على مطبخ فيه سفرة زي دي و هو بياكل من الجاموسة نية 😂😂😂 https://t.co/SKwi7cQ1gP pic.twitter.com/q1nXMos6Y1
— 𓋹 𓂀 (@Pwuo_) June 30, 2023
اللي ياكلون اللحمة بدون طبخ يتهوشوا مع اللي ياكلون السمك المعفن https://t.co/9Q1rCKmlBS pic.twitter.com/C9iI2kDXOt
— HUSSAIN 🇮🇹 (@hussain_hourani) June 30, 2023
But to truly settle this debate, there’s only one thing we can do: