31 Aug 2023

Frenchman causes international incident over food tweet

From First Up, 5:34 am on 31 August 2023

In the 90s the greatest advice you could give a drunk flatmate was ... don't drunk txt your ex... don't do it. In these modern times the same advice could be applied to social media posts. This week a Frenchman thought he was sending an innocous tweet about his nation's food being superior to that of the United States.... Here's Philippe Lemoine's tweet: Americans *genuinely* believe they have better food than France. They really believe it. It's truly extraordinary. 18 million twitter views later, that tweet has caused an international food fight. Our reporter Leonard Powell tracked down Philippe to see what he made of ruffling millions of American feathers.