Why The French Love American Fast Food

The editor was busy and signed off on the expense without reading what they were signing. Lol 😂

I like their style

I'll eat a qua-song over anything else

They might have found someone local as a contractor to get the B-roll and some of the interviews. Hard to say.

i think what they meant by "went to Paris" was they contacted their colleague in Paris to records some videos, because all the interview were via video conference.

The French are strange, egotistical people

That's not what he meant

​@user-hm6hs7dk4k what he said is what he meant

That’s exactly what he meant.

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I feel like outside students who live on a tight budget, fastfood is actually the deal of one or two times in a month.

I , too, live in Paris and there now are very fat Parisians. Many eat this junk every day and it’s such a shame how the US influence is ubiquitous here; they are losing their culture.

In the beginning, yes, but give it a couple of years it will garbage

It’s the same in the UK

Id rather go to Chick fil a or chipotle or wataburger or Dary Queen in the United States than the cleanest nicest McDonalds in France. Not to mention a myriad of even more local fast food chains or a Mexican drive through spot. I can get good fast food from the local super market. HEB has very servicable pizza. The US has better fast food than France a million percent when you consider all the options Americans have across the country.
I live in France and cook and eat almost exclusively at home because restaurants in my city are between overpriced or fast food junk and a lack of mid-range options keeps me at home. I dont think this is the case in larger cities like Paris or Lyon, though.

This got thrown into my recommendations when I don't normally watch anything from CNBC or any other major news source. I don't even eat fast food.

McDonalds is better in France. The food I had was definitely higher quality than here, plus it was the only thing open till 2am

Or maybe because food that is cheap, quick and had millions invested to make it the perfect balance of taste means people want to go, eating snails isn’t exactly advanced

I'm french, I did'nt recognize my people in this video , at all. French people are very critical of american fast foods, they eat there sometimes, I never do, most of my friends don't. We overwelmingly think it's unhealthy. It looks more like a commercial than an actual unbiased investigation. with people saying "it's delicious", "it's amazing" ... not accurate.

@@backintimealwyn5736You know what they say about anecdotal evidence: it isn’t evidence.
If you’d look up the numbers in the report instead of the street opinions you’d find it’s accurate. Numbers don’t lie, and two people in the street mean less than nothing.
There are 43M transactions per week in a country of

Already pre written just gotta wait it out

Then again in the EU there are higher food standards than the USA as their food is not loaded up with the junk like in American food so I don't think an obesity and diabetes spike is coming anytime soon plus they have universal health care so they will be better taken care of.

Lol big difference in France is that they actually use high quality ingredients in the fast food restaurants so it's far less processed, fast foods in America literally give you diabetes cuz its barely even food in the first place

I'm cackling at the idea that we're exporting obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiac arrest. 🤣🤣🤣

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This is 100% correct, you wrote in a few sentences the main drives behind American fast food success in France and did a better job than this 12 minute video 😂

Somewhat well put, esp on the pure choice aspect of it, except that at the Crous the fixed price of a 3 course meal is available to students for a fixed price of 3.5€, a healthy balanced meal! if it has increased due to inflation it ain't above 5€.
For 15€ euros spent at Burger king or Mcdo in Paris I assure you I will enter MONOPRIX get un plat du jour , dessert + boisson, and I'll give u a balance of my less than 4€

Also immigration from outside France is fueling a decline in traditional french meals and a surge in tacos, kebab, mcdo etc...

Is there chipotle in France?

Hand me a baguette, spreadable Brie, and some tomato slices any day over Fast food restaurants.
Quick, easy, delicious, filling, better for you.

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as a french i can confirm that they take the best of the best 😂😂😂

As a French this is so hilarious to me...thankfully we don't all talk like this. So stereotypical 😅

Xavier was reading from a script and does not speak English at all

10k pâtisseries in paris

They surrendered with their white aprons.

Immigrants. The cabal won.

This is sad..

So the parent generation of Giscard- Mittereand era are dead, and their children grew up in Chirac era onward don't have to hide their love of fast food anymore?

snobbery will only get the French so far

This time line is very curses so seems fitting

Loki: So...What was your nexus event?
Frenchman: _“I luuuv nuggets”_

More like cursed 😂

I'm French and love burgers but I don't get the thing with nuggets. During a riot people burglarized a McDonald's and were in a frenzy over getting the stock of nuggets, WTF ?

What if they are gold miners?

Yes, and I think it's because they have to break into the market, so it actually does have to taste really good.

Yes German and British McDonalds tasted so much better and had different and better menu options.

EU regulations so its less processed. As stated in the video.

That has been my experience too.
The McDonald's in Stockholm, Sweden were miles above the quality and taste of the McDonalds here in the states.

Here in America, high fructose corn syrup is used as a filler ingredient in a lot of fast food. HFCS is not used this way in Europe and everything tastes better as a result.

Brilliant comment!

Lies again? Driver Chauffeur Debit Card

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Whoever put the “d” in place of the “L” is also genius

LOL!!!!

You have to be aware that fast food in Europe is vastly superior to the US in quality. Mcdonalds in Europe is nothing like in the US, it's many many many steps above in quality, taste, etc. And price too.

@@derbigpr500 Yup same in India, I get excited to eat KFC when I visit there, I had KFC in the US once, a decade ago and I almost died.

france has never had good taste

i think its mostly african and arab french that are consuming this food

French restaurants are expensive and only open certain times of day, close mid day, some only open in the evening. Ingredients are different in other places also. A lot of countries outlaw the ingredients in our food. Hell, sometimes franchise owners of fast food in the states may taste different than others. I’ve been all over the US since I was young and some states fast food taste different, sometimes even the next town over may be slightly different. Also, fast food overseas cater to the taste of whatever country they’re in. Asian countries have a bunch of different options also. Especially Japan.

I think you summed it up very well. While France has a rich culinary heritage, the country's cuisine comprises many complex recipes. In traditional French gastronomy, there is very little in terms of on-the-go street food, and in today's world, where everyone works (often long hours, even in France), fast food imports from abroad offer the convenience that people seem to need - the result of such developments, among others, has been a doubling of the French obesity rate between 1997 and 2020.

French tacos are also horrible. But yah it’s basically either McDonald’s, vending machine sandwich, or 5 course meal

Fast French food is nonexistent...waiting a 1/2 hour for service is ordinary.

I was amazed that in Bologna Airport, not a single American fast food chain.

To add to this spot-on comment, I think the reason there are few cheap quick food options outside of those you mentioned has to do with French restaurant associations. They keep competition out of cities.

What? Wow. That's cool!!

Actually, you can also use them to buy food (and only food) at supermarket.

It's called social progress, and we have the unions and baby boomers to thank for it. In fact, that's what socialism is all about - the distribution of wealth, to be more precise. In the USA, American taxpayers pay for the welfare of politicians and tax cuts for big corporations and oligarchs, and that's perverse socialism.

Is this a government initiative?

@@GonzoTehGreat Absolutely, employees talk to their unions, who negotiate with the government and the employers' union.

Île de "France"

Pourtant le nombre de Mc Donald's en France ne cesse de croître avec 30 inaugurations par an environ (1560 restaurants Mc Donald's en tout). Ils sont de plus en plus présents dans les villes moyennes et les petites villes voir même à la campagne.
Je crois savoir que la France est le deuxième marché de Mc Donald's derrière les États-Unis.
Au delà des prix raisonnables et de la force du marketing, les Mc Donald's en France sont des lieux de socialisation pour beaucoup (jeunes, familles...). Il a en quelque sorte remplacé le café du village.

@@lemoussaillon McDonald's a un marché assez spécifique pour la France, plus "healthy" (ouais, j'imagine pas l'horreur dans d'autres pays du coup) avec des recettes souvent plus travaillées et adaptées aux goûts français, ça a fait mouche. Mais le problème de base c'est que les gens cuisinent de moins en moins à cause du rythme de vie effréné qu'on nous force à avoir et qui poussent les gens vers la restauration rapide. Et le problème de la gastronomie française c'est qu'elle demande du temps, on a pas vraiment de recettes rapides et adaptées au travail comme les hamburgers, les pizzas, les kebabs, les pâtes... les plats français sont plus complexes et adaptés à un rythme de vie plus lent avec des repas longs à table donc pas compatible avec le mode de vie de beaucoup et c'est une tragédie, la gastronomie française devient un luxe réservés aux plus riches et/ou ceux qui peuvent se permettre de prendre le temps de cuisiner chaque jour (j'en fais partie Dieu merci).

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Are you French?

How interesting. Here in America we're seeing fast food becoming unaffordable instead, as the prices for fast food meals have skyrocketted over the past few years.

That's... Not true. I mean, fast food is generally speaking unaffordable on a daily basis... and is not eaten as such.
You still have waaaay higher numbers of homecooks than in the US, and many other european countries, and we do still have some of the longest lunch times in the world.
What is true, is that on one side, there has been a wide adoption of the burger in our restaurants. Which is obvious: traditional child dish for the last 50 years is a patty with french fries. You don't need to add a lot to push the price from 12 to 16 euros.
What's also true is that we do have a way weaker native fast food tradition in general. So when american brands establish themselves, there is way less concurrence than with the german kebabs or the brits. Although this is increasingly changing.

He's a simple man with simple needs. He loves fries, he gets fries. He loves nuggets, he gets nuggets.

Me too and I am French… promise I don’t sound like that though 😂
I arrived in the USA young enough that I don’t sound like that hahaha

@@basiledubois6761 frites I’m fine with! They didn’t invent them but they embraced them. Nuggets I’m not.

Why?

Scope what nuggets are made of.

Waou... you're a real "gourmet"... and people real sheeps !

I don't get it.
Much rather have bulgogi with ban-chan. Kalbi to go even better.

@@stringfellowbalk2654 I was in South Korea last October and was shocked to see all the variety of American restaurants that were in Seoul. Obviously, I stuck to eating Korean bbq but they are insanely expensive. I spent over $100 -$150 for my family of 3 to eat in the more popular Korean restaurants. I compare the prices to eating in France at some good French restaurants and spend about $80 (euros) for us 3.

@@stringfellowbalk2654 It's all relative. Koreans eat those all the time so people prefer to eat something more Western when they go out

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C'est une blague. @@Lostouille

Who in their right mind would leave the US for France? Doctor's salaries there are a fraction of what they make in the US.

Is money everything? @@mirzaahmed6589

Legit every American says this lol

The average American ‘only’ eats it five times a week. 😆

Same quarter pounder just hits right !

Miss Granger, have you ever had fast food in US to compare with the ones you have in France? EU banned many things that are perfectly legal in US.
Personally I rather have a baguette with butter and tomato or cheese than anything else. Even plain baguette from boulangerie will do

As an American, this is basically my relationship with fast food lol
I think last month, I went to In n Out twice and had McDonald's chicken nuggets and fries once.
We all know it's not good for us, it's guilty pleasure that you indulge from time to time

Let me guess, KFC, Mcdo, BK, Subway, Dominos, Pizza Hut, Five Guys, Starbucks. Did I miss any other restaurants? I wouldn't call this a variety. Hope your visit is going well. Be sure not to categorize what France or being French is by what the Parisians do and act.

95% of Italian restaurants are really just Pizza ones. The Indian restaurants are mostly nothing resembling the British ones. There is truly still not international cusine restaurants in France or very few and they ain't typical or that good. All the French efforts to create their style of fast food have failed mostly dure to being too expensive.

​@@gordonspicer Its kinda true, our "italians" are mostly pizza only (except in the south east near italian borders lol), in France if you want good international cuisine, you need to pay the price, or be in paris (like 13 th district if you want asian food, or 20th for tunisian and so on ...)

@@jl-ws1kz Why hardly any Moroccan restaurants in French towns anymore?. The only thing you like is au volonte buffet at Chinese restaurants with their same tepid cuisine. Always the same with surly asian staff. Traditional French bistros are a dying breed. Finding a restaurant open at night or on Sunday needs a Sherlock Holmes!

France is going to be ok. France is not a car centric hellscape like America. This plays a big factor in food culture. There are bakeries and fresh food options on every street in Paris within walking distance. Unlike every freeway exist burgeoning with caloric vices in America. The combination of sprawl and distance to food make fast food in America align with its monocentric forms of movement.

@@popcorn8153Fast food is everywhere in Japan, and vending machines in Japan contain nothing but sugary drinks (with the exception of tea, which is almost always unsweetened unless it's Lipton). While obesity in Japan is rising, it's nowhere near the rates that America has. What France and Japan share in common are walkable cities and good public transport infrastructure. So, yes, I agree with you and I think France will be fine.

They're gonna get so fat from the fast food haha

You seem to think fast food is new to France and Europe. People all around the world eat fast food. It's not new.
The problem with you Americans and fat people in general is not the fast food, but the fact that you eat way too much. We don't eat such huge portions as you do.

France will be fine. They literally walk most places to go about their daily lives and don't need to drive everywhere.

Our politicians would actually have to do something worthwhile for that

They are cutting the branches and distribution are by half start from 2022, so they might be able to afford better stuff now. One of the problem was there were so many branches to supply with ingredients during the Bubble Economy Era, now that is no longer the case.
McDonald Thailand has better food than American one because it has only 490 branches nationwide to supply, compare to 20,000 stateside before Covid.

yes, but the chemicals being banned everywhere in the world, except in the US is the real issue. All about keeping people sick. Got to keep those Medical stocks prices up@@thanakonpraepanich4284

Why do you think the government needs to force anything? People want that slop. Otherwise they wouldn't sell it

They'll do whatever the corporate donors want

Even it has less chemicals it’s still fattening food. No amount of European standards can change that.

Salt and sugar and fat are the same everywhere. These foods are not healthy no matter what. But good try with ur xenophobic take.

Still empty, addicting calorie bomb

I'm french and I love americans.
There's a small part of french youth that hates America because they think it's responsible for all the problems in the world, but it's a minority.

based on american actions all over the world !

"We appreciate more American fastfood than Americans themselves"
Is what he actually said.
It's a bad direct translation aka word for word translation of how one would say "we appreciate American fastfood more than Americans do" in French.

Were you surprised at how much more expensive the bill was compared to here in America?

How do you process KFC chicken? LOL

There is a simple effect: Chains run commercials, promotions, advertisement, single owned 'bistro' places offering the same thing for same price cannot keep up in attracting clients. They are missing an "image".
It's just the Doner und Falafel places, that are not chains yet, who are equally popular.

The fast food from these US owned restaurants tastes different abroad to attract foreign customers who are used to better quality food and have different tastes.
However, once established they can gradually change their menu to offer cheaper, less healthy/tasty options.
This is also how these restaurants originally expanded in the USA, by adapting to the local market to acquire market share, then (once they have a recognized brand with loyal customers), reducing costs by cheapening their product to maximize profits.

I don't really understand it myself. Normal restaurant food in most cities I've been to in Europe is far superior in both taste and healthiness to the fast food and the same price or only a little bit more expensive, but well worth the extra cost. I can see there might have been a bit of a novelty factor when a new fast food place would open and sometimes you just crave fast food, but still? I live in Australia now and am proud to say Starbucks flopped here, because every little mom and pop cafe has WAY better coffee and it's cheaper than Starbucks coffee. It really is some of the best in the world.

If it wasn’t for fast food the average American would starve.

Bro, what about weapons

i think french have own wepon​@@aliciafaulkner416

That’s just how the French act lol. They love everything the most.

how do you measure/compare fast food appreciation? lol

too true. In some medium size towns its now difficult to find a simple French traditional restaurant. They are a quickly "vanishing breed" in an, say, the next 5/10 years they will be a distant memory.

A nightmare. The traditional restaurants with 3 course meal were always affordable. I love the simplicity, and you still got a good mail and be on your way within the hour... But it is not trendy...

Or maybe he was trying to be a good host & wanted to give you a piece of home?

why drive so long to a kfc? just make your own food at home. its extremely stupid and gross

I know this is about France. But when I went to Spain I was shocked to see they have Johnny Rockets. Especially considering the one near to where I live in the US has been closed for years.

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@@user-gx4uc8my3n it’s not that deep man

And appreciation of added chemicals.😂

@@princegroove you generalize too much. Everything is made of chemicals, just saying added chemicals does not mean anything.

@@MuiKaHo ‘Added’ is the key word here, Einstein.

Could’ve done a pulp fiction reference but didn’t, L

​@@dwaynekeenum1916 I thought in France it was called a Royale with Cheese

It's wrong. The fries were created in Paris under the Pont Neuf then a German imported Parisian fries to Belgium.

It’s sad to have delicious food that comes to you quick???? That’s a weird thing to be sad about…

​@@shasmi93You call that food??

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I am American, and this is great for our American companies.

@@shasmi93 delicious food ... big lol... we should all boycott them

Quit exaggerating.

@@Navybrat64 Per capita, US consumes the most fast food. Uk is second. France is third. Sweden forth. The US is way ahead in rates of obesity and diabetes.

@@Navybrat64 I wish I was exaggerating.

@@randomnobody8770 Yep, they've set a trend! Third World countries too are catching up ... fast!
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The average American eats fast food about three times per week.

Subway catching strays all over the globe

Subway is almost a fast food relic at this point.

Subway is a big success here in France because the boulanger doesn't give you a choice what to put in your sandwich.

as they should lol 😂

​@@princegrooveno it's not

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Food standards there are different. They don’t use high fructose corn syrup there which is one of the causes of diabetes here in the US

@@kevinmanan1304 Sugar is no better! 😆

@@princegroove sugar is not bad or good, you need to consume in moderation. too much of anything is bad, even water.

And waistlines! 😂

Good to know! Thank you. I hope it stays that way.

Foods being genetically modified have no influence on flavor or health impact - and Europe imports massive amounts of food from the US and Latin America that is genetically modified (which itself is not a super meaningful term since all foods across the entirety of history have been artificially modified by humans, just with more rudimentary means).
The difference is primarily laws on sugar content and food processing, everything else is performative restrictions to avoid their real concern (the U.S., Brazil and Argentina dominating their agriculture industry).

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Especially since they use French grown potatoes!😉😆

The french fry is actually a Belgian fry

Actually the oldest recorded “French” fry was done by the Spanish. Makes sense since it was the Spanish who brought the potatoes (among many other things) to Spain & the rest of Europe from South America.

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Yeah, I think the same applies for Romania. When the first McDonald’s open here in the 90’s there was a huge queue as people only saw the brand on TV, not in real life. Over the past few decades burgers have become very much mainstream in every other restaurant.
I also heard people saying how they really wanna go to the USA and get a big burger (in fact this was pretty much a lifetime goal for a taxi driver from Bucharest 🥹)

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A step in the right direction. Plus, Polish cuisine has many interesting choices.

@@stevelam5898 Traditional family recipes are still a common thing in Poland, but younger generations indulged in fast foods for decades. Now the younger generations seem more interested in what's healthy. I definitely approve that. Although many traditional recipes are remade, as it's hard to call some of them actually healthy :)
Edit: It's worth underlining that it's common in Poland to cook stuff from different (mostly European) food cultures. Whether it's a Hungarian lesco or Italian spaghetti for example... But I think it's normal everywhere, to not focus only on your cuisine.

​@@stevelam5898Any Cuisine in the world is better than the McDonalds junk food😅

The sandwiches at the boulangeries are quite good!

Yeah man! Why would you go to Paris to eat American chain fast food? That'd just be sad.

While you go to McDonald's and that same money gets you two sandwiches,fries and a drink......

Exactly! Fast food doesn't have to be processed food. 👍

I barely eat fast food in France, and I certainly don’t eat at boulangeries either. 10 times out of 10, the sandwiches are unwrapped, and the glass case is never closed and flies are flying around in there and in other compartments too (one time I bought a small cake from La Tarte Tropezienne in Cannes and when I brought it back to my hotel, there was a fly practically embedded in the cake!). I recommend buying from supermarkets because at least most of the food is better protected. Lastly, who the hell wants to eat crispy baguettes? It’s sharp, strong and difficult to eat! 😒

For having lived in a few countries incl. France, I can confirm fast food tastes better in France. Probably because the ingredients are sourced locally.

I have heard that the EU actually has banned some things that are used in American foods.

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That’s what I was thinking. They often alter the flavors to the local tastebuds too. I tried McDonald’s in Japan once. It is better as well and they had a variety of menu items that are different

I am stationed in Germany and have been to Paris 2 times and I can attest, the Burger King and McDonald's tastes a lot more fresh and better than America's location.

What. Doctors want people to be healthy

Well, in France health care is provided by the government so doctors will still earn the same

@@jayjya Yes. They have very good pipeline of people to make healthy.

Doctors don't make that much in France unless they only take "out of pocket" fees and not the national health insurance, and what most people don't know, there's actually a doctor shortage in France. Even with national health care and reasonably priced top-up private insurance, many residents don't have a GP here and getting in to see a specialist can sometimes take months to get an appointment.

I k,ow you're joking but doctors in France are already overbooked everywhere (mostly due to an artificially low supply of doctors caused by state-imposed low salaries AND high taxes) so all this will cause is stretch the average waiting time from 2 months to a year

I think that's stretching the definition of "addictive" a bit too far.

@@mvmlego1212 There's a guy who worked for nestle and called himself Dr Bliss who's attesting to this

For the vast majority of the French "disposable income" is decreasing very fast together with savings. The French still like to pretend all is "fine and dandy" here still but, as I said, in reality it is not and there is much "borderline" poverty which is now, as in the UK, even encroaching into the middle classes. In effect they have, by necessity, other what they conceive as more pressing things to spend their money on. Dining out in proper restaurants is not high on the list any more!

I disagree, fast food places are overpriced now, it's cheaper to buy a sandwich from the bakery or the grocery store

Fast food is as expensive in my country as the other cheap dining options. But maybe it’s different in France.

you dont have to go out to eat every day, just make food at home. its quite simple

@@user-gx4uc8my3n It isn't that people are eating fast food every day. I think his point is that there is a large lower income population in France, especially among the immigrant population who also tend to be younger. When they are out, and younger people tend to be out and about more, American QSRs offer a cheaper alternative to having a meal at a more traditional place.

Fast food is far from being cheap!

Consider the tab open and add medical expenses before calling it the cheap option. That food isn’t healthy

And calling in your order is not getting it faster hahaha you're slow ahah you have to call then wait then go pick it up soo you're losing gas and brain cells and more money for your new shopping ways ahhaha soo you're telling me what you're dojngis faster then driving through a window in 2 minutes max ?

@@CyrusTheVirus187 So if you're at work and KNOW you're going to McDonald's for lunch, you would rather just show up and order your food in real time? Go ahead. I ordered my food ten minutes ago before my lunch break began. I just walk in and walk out with my pre-made/pre-paid food. I'll wave at you while you wait in the drive thru during the lunch rush. "Two minutes max" my ass.

@@adamgh0 2 mins max is true from the time you roder till you get yor food you have to be slow minded to think 2 minutes is longer then driving to a spot out of the way ahahah clown

@adamgh0 and you sound like a clown who's to scared to wave at people that look like me hahah you're the type of person that closes the street when I'm just walking into the store hahaha

Of course it has dollar burgers

@@CyrusTheVirus187bro the cheapest thing on the menu is probably between 2.50 and 3 eur, so expansive for what it is

@ismbks One thing on the McDo menu is very cheap: the euro burger. It’s only 1 euro. It attracts a lot of customers who usually buy other things to go with it. It’s a sales tactic and it works. That’s what the person you comment on was saying

I went because could not find a public bathroom, had to buy something to get a code the lines were massive but moving very fast, turns out probably did not need to buy anything just could have waited for someone exiting the bathroom. @@CyrusTheVirus187

Yeah KFC is so low on the list of good places to get fried chicken in the US, but internationally, the Australians, French, and Japanese love it.

True! I was shocked seeing Parisians in queue at KFC specially in the evenings! While here in America their food is sub-par and every store seems like a ghost town.

I'm french and I recently ate at a newly opened popeye's in Paris and it was better than the average KFC we have here. But I will say quality of these stores vary A LOT so you have to check the ratings first before going. I've been at certain KFCs that were really low quality in France.

@@loganleroy8622 what are the best places for fried chicken in the US ? KFC in France is really not that amazing either, macdonald's seem to be a better choice for fast food right now. I think KFC probably has better fried chicken in asia than in France

@@arielbadw1368 Popeye's, Raisin' Canes, Bojangles, Zaxby's, Wingstop, and the best of all of them Chick-Fil-A.

sigh, shocker to me, another American as well

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As a Mexican,this makes me laugh 😂

French here : French McDonald's is very different to American McDonald's. Here's an example with fries.
American McDonald's fries : Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*, citric acid [preservative]), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), salt. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent
French McDonald's fries : Potatoes, canola oil, salt.
Same goes for every item on the menu. Not saying our version of McDonald's is high cuisine, but it is heavily regulated and offers much healthier products compared to the American version.

I'm more surprised they like KFC. That stuff is practically inedible.

Still maintains a lot and incorporates a lot of changes and influences in french cuisine. And fast food chains in France are top notch compared to other countries.

Lmao traditional French cuisine is not disappearing. And it will never disappear. There are tens of thousands of traditional restaurants in France. They are still well run and popular. You will find plenty of them. Plus US fast food chains in France (and elsewhere) really have to follow laws restricting what they can put in their food. They also adapt menus to local tastes. So it’s a bit different anyway.

@@rayontita1912 I'm not a fan cuisine travel, but I like one of local mc donalds items in each country I visit. It's interesting to see fusion and influences on mc Donals menu

You will absolutely still find traditional French restaurants (even those specializing in regional cuisine--particularly within the region in question itself, like Alsatian, Norman, Provençal, Savoyard, Breton, Burgundian, Lyonnais, Flemish as in the traditional cuisine of French Flanders, Basque, Bearnaise, Niçois, etc.)

Do you really think that because fast food has been rising, there are no more traditional French restaurants? Idiotic comment.

As an American that got the chance to be an exchange student in France, I always felt like going to MacDo in France was more like the feeling an American would get if they went to In-and-Out, Five-Guys, or Chick-Fil-A. It's just a little bit more elevated, it feels like a special treat, and bizarrely fancy for fastfood. Quick felt more like how Burger King feels in the US

even though fast food is like the opposite of fancy. its poor and unhealthy and ultra processed. its simply revolting

There is a minimum standard that fast food restaurants must meet in order to call a patty of a specific meat. It's not really an issue of poor ingredients as they are generally of better quality than 2nd and 3rd world countries. It's the stuff they add to those ingredients. Sugar is in the buns and ketchup. The Soft Drinks contain dozens of grams of sugar. There is the frying in vegetable oil. These are the things that lead to poor health.

​@@KevinSmith-qi5yn why are you comparing quality of ingredients of a first world country with third world? If you want reasonable comparison compare it with other first world countries. Ingredients in place like Norway or Sweden vs American would be proper comparison and comparer to those, American fast food ingredients fall short in quality even if we excuse their overuse of additives.

Better ingredients, better food.

Our government wants us dependent on the health care and pharmaceutical systems that have heavy hitting lobbyists.

EU regulations are no joke

I was surprised to see a Popeyes in Barcelona lmaooo

@@Copeharder99 dude exactly the same.

Fast food restaurants in Spain are always empty.

@@jayfloramusic After being away from US for 3 years because of Covid, I was happy to find a Taco Bell in Madrid. There is also a Carl's Junior in the city, although they didn't have a jalapeno guac burger.

@@Americaninparis2012 OMG I love Taco Bell! Wait what? You moved to Spain from US just because of Covid?

thx for the infor dear Irish folk,

I'm kinda curious now of the way McDonald's is viewed in other countries.

"McDonalds is for children and drunks."
So... the average Irishman?

Also, French pensioners living alone or with a limited income go to MCD's BK and others, and indeed these restaurants are packed, specially KFC in the evenings! I noticed that last time I visited Paris

lol what? That’s so odd that French restaurants serve cheeseburgers when it’s not French😂

why dont people go eat the healthier burgers than? they sound like actually dumb

​@@ButterflyG673 They sell burgers at many restaurants around the world, not only at fast-food places. By French restaurant, he meant any random restaurant in France, not necessarily a restaurant specialized in French cuisine. Just like American restaurants usually offer dishes that were not invented in the US.

When I was a tourist in Paris, 20 years ago, without a smartphone, no way to translate things and no restaurants reviews and little money, I ate at McDonald's. Why would I venture in a real french restaurant, with obviously bad service, expensive and not even know what to order. I bet a lot of customers are also tourists.

I was served Raclette by my Swiss relatives when I visited several years ago. Divine!❤

I'm American. I've never eaten dinner at school, unless you mean lunch. Whatever meal they serve you at school, it's very cheaply made. I remember Friday being hamburger day at school until highschool (14-18 years old), at that point they had more options that you could pay for that included burgers, but also pizza and very basic texan/mexican food like burritos. Burgers are always an option but generally I think most people don't like to have more than one or two a week, while fried chicken is also very popular. All of this, if not prepared yourself, is very highly processed. It's convenient but you can get tired of it quick.

Yes. The OP said "dinner" but probably meant lunch​. @@PiYodTong

@@PiYodTong I meant lunch! I thought lunch and dinner were the same things but I guess no😅
in France we have always rice, pasta, fish, vegetables, meat like chicken or steak. Hamburgers, French fries, pizzas or nuggets were for specials days like the Friday before holidays etc (we would RUN to the cafeteria to be sure to have fries lmao) but we never had burritos sadly

@@Olin_drawing Yes the easy access to Mexican food is one of the best things about Texas. Never got served steak in school, all our school food either comes frozen or in a can, for the most part.

Yeah, you've definitely never been in NYC then. It's basically like this every single night in Midtown. At places like McDonald's, Taco Bell, Shake Shack, Chick-fil-A, Popeyes and more. It's even 100 times crazier when there's an a event like a game or concert. But it's packed everyday at fast food locations with tourist and people hanging out daily.

@@Dave.... NYC is more exception than rule. That section of midtown draws more tourists than most towns have residents. Has it recovered since COVID? I would argue that midtown is like a big open mall with all that's available there.

That’s the second most populated city in my country and now turistic,also it’s the vi“historic” building I presume is that one you did go to.
We love usa fast food since it was introduced in the 90s?,its more younger people that eat it still most don’t eat everyday, it’s still cheaper than most restaurants although personally restaurants give you more from your money, but young people don’t care about that, we eat usually at 8-9pm here, if was on a weekend they are going to nightclubs,bars ect, there’s some McDonald’s that are open 24h or until 2am-4am

Hello lynnsey, how are you doing ?

Did you notice if these restaurants had vegan options?

@@TravelAlwaysOfficial We go to French Dominos regularly (it's SO good). We get vegetarian pizzas but do know that they have vegan pizzas on their menu!

@@abbyolexa8234 cool! Thanks!

There's nothing wrong with OCCASIONALLY ordering a Domino's while in France, but while you're enjoying your pizza, consider for moment why it tastes better than it does in the USA...
Clue: It's not because it's a Domino's pizza!

"QSR" -- hilarious. It's fast food. The marketers should pay you for promoting their BS. 🤣🤣🤣

@@marthajean50 What BS ?
Is there really a difference between calling it a QSR, which stands for *_Quick Service Restaurant_* and "fast food"? That's like telling somebody to call a fragrance a "cologne".

Fine dining and creative cuisine are still here (Paris), but they never targeted the middle class/working class. The fast-food takes the market of traditional (not so good) restaurants, where quality got worse and prices higher. Parisians woke up and choose McDonald's over "fait maison" ( fake) restaurants venues, who still exist for tourists.

@@amanielwolde That's heartening. Hopefully, they won't grow much there. (They do a lot of very sneaky things to trick people, especially children and low income people, into addiction.)

There are no ‘real’ French people left in France..