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Yeah, small towns all over the us can be very diverse. Article also acts like France doesn’t have poor people eating Nutella sandwiches everyday


To poor people in the US Nutella on a French Baguette would be a treat.

In the US poor people eat "peanut butter" that is made from some peanuts, and a bunch of hydrogenated palm oil or whatnot. The bread isn't even legally bread by French law, it's some weird thing made in a bread factory not a bakery and its shelf stable for 2 weeks but also not nutritious.

You can walk into a Walmart and get a jar of the cheapest store brand hydrogenated oil peanut butter for $3 or so, and a loaf of the cheapest store brand white bread for $2 or so.

Your luxury French Nutella desert sandwiches would cost closer to $10 for the Nutella and like $3-4 for the baguette

I'm not joking, Nutella is viewed as a real luxury here


I can’t defend American supermarket bread, but do you… not know that Nutella has palm oil in it?


Yes, I do

I dont personally eat nutella

I'm trying to tell you that it gets way worse than Nutella, Nutella is not poor people food here


You kind of proved the OP point since a poor french would probably eat a baguette with butter and a vegetable soup.


Ironically, Nutella is not French at all.




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