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Hello everyone, welcome to “Learn French, Become Français” with Ruben! Welcome almost French people. Before starting I want to thank all my listeners thank you!

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In this episode, we're going to talk about Fast Foods in France!

In France, there are a lot of fast-food outlets. The industry is also called “fast-food”, but all French people understand and often say “fast-food”.

There's a simple reason why there are so many fast-food restaurants! Eating out takes too much time, especially in France! If you eat out in France, it's common to sit at the restaurant table for 40 minutes to an hour.

In the last episode I mentioned “Macdo”, Mcdonald's!

It's the most popular fast-food chain in France.

In France, there are several fast-food chains, including Macdo, BK (burger king), KFC and Subway.

All these chains come from the United States of America! There's also Quick from Belgium! Quick offers burgers and fries, just like Macdo and BK.

Burger King bought Quick, and all the Quicks became Burger King, replaced by Burger King.

Even though all these fast-food chains come from foreign countries, they use a lot of local specialties. By local specialties, I'm referring in particular to French cheeses and sauces. Burger King uses Cantal cheese. Quick has Emmental, and Macdo used to have Emmental too, but that word has been removed from the menus. Now it's “white cheddar”, but I think it's very similar to Emmental.

In terms of sauces, at Burger King we have béarnaise sauce, mustard-honey sauce made with Dijon mustard. Béarnaise sauce is an herbed sauce, similar to mayonnaise, with a little vinegar and shallots (shallots are similar to onions). The taste of béarnaise sauce is very fresh, with a little acidity and a little sweetness thanks to the shallots.

In terms of French sauces, at Mcdonald's there's only the hazelnut oil vinaigrette. A vinaigrette is a dressing that you put on your salad! The vinaigrette we use is very French, because hazelnut oil is mainly produced in France.

And yes! In French fast-food restaurants, you can eat salad! I don't think fast-food salad tastes very good, but that's just my opinion haha.

Enough about foreign chains, let's talk about French independent fast-food restaurants!

In France there are a lot of small independent kebabs, so normally you know what a kebab is! In France, it's eaten in a patty or a kebab bun. It's served with a sauce, often white, very creamy, or samurai, very spicy. Some people mix the two sauces in their kebab.

Are there any French fast-food chains? Yes, of course! There's O'Tacos!