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Where do you get no car and good food in France?

Only people living in Paris or another big city center will give up on a car and mostly because the trafic is very bad or that they cannot afford it (or both).

While good food in France is a myth. Sure if you eat at a five stars restaurant you will have good food and good sevice but you pay a lot and can afford that only a few times per year or less.

The rest of restaurants are terrible and service is shit most of the time. Sorry to break the myth.

Go to almost any restaurant in Italy and you will eat very well for a decent price. (service might be good to average but usually not as bad as in most place I visited in France).

Also food at supermarkets in France is also not great, big chains are fighting like mad men for a few cents extra margins and quality is often last of their priorities. But this is also not getting better elsewhere to be honest, maybe slightly better in Germany and a bit better in Switzerland (but you pay for it).

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ObjectiF MooN⚡️₿ 5mo ago

It's true that most restaurants serve pre-prepared and frozen dishes. If there are more than a dozen dishes with a different base, they are prepared dishes, often from frozen.

After all, in France there is a certain quality, especially for meat and cheese, dairy, at prices that are quite affordable compared with other countries, and America, which overprice anything up than "value" quality and put a gourmet label on it, whereas in France it's just the standard with normal price.

Plus there are offers to avoid waste, you can find almost every day food to eat the same day or the next day at a discount of -35% to -50%. Even "Label Rouge" food have discount which is a highest quality food without additives, respecting more traditional recipes or process.

So if you have time to look around you can eat well for cheap.

Sure, it's not the same as it was 50 years ago, but a lot has changed in general.

To find good-quality food everywhere, you'd have to go around the Mediterranean in southern Europe and the east too.

Eluc 5mo ago

Maybe I had bad experiences and bad luck, often a local could help.

umni 5mo ago

France has been getting worse because of inflation. It's sad to see the variety shrink in all of the major supermarkets and the growing trend of American low quality foods.

If it plays out the same way as the US france will split into ever decreasing lower quality supermarkets with one or two Limited stock high quality Costco equivalent shops.

The majority of the population are one step away from shopping for groceries at Dollar stores. You can see this trend in brands like Action.

ObjectiF MooN⚡️₿ 5mo ago

Yeah it's kinda scary to see how popular is Action stores in Europe. People are ok now to pay for shitty quality and they are even addicted to it.