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Burger overtakes le jambon-beurre as France's favourite snack
Food consultancy Gira Conseil revealed that the French have eaten nearly 1.5 billion burgers last year.
According to an article by Telegraph, burgers have spread beyond the fast food industry and now figure on the menus of 85% of the country’s restaurants. In many of them, ‘posh burgers’ are now the most popular item in many traditional restaurants, ahead of more traditional dishes such as beef bourguignon, magret de canard or cassoulet.
Bernard Boutboul, the managing director of Gira Conseil, said fast-food outlets accounted for only 30% of burger sales last year, while the remaining 70% were savoured by more discerning diners in traditional sit-down restaurants.
