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Just to balance the article, I'm french, living in Paris, working near Champs Elysées and never heard about tacos. It seems to be very specific to teenagers or ghettos.

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> It seems to be very specific to teenagers or ghettos.

You know, this kind of attitude is what makes people dislike Parisians.

he is right though. Just look at people queuing for oTacos inside paris and i doubt you'll find anyone older than 18 yo.

And here I am a world traveler at 40 loving French tacos. I guess perspective is everything. Maybe one just has to break out of their protective shell and not be a snob about "lower class" things.

I think the rent are insane, and the fast-food chains there have a broader clientele and international recognition.

Rent has been insane for a long time relative to median income in practically every major city across the world. I actually don't think that the rent in Paris is any worse than in Boston, and Paris is nicer to live in.

Sorry I meant a commercial lease on the Champs-Elysées.

Move back 15 years, replace tacos with kebabs and whoop, it's still the same. A few older dudes who know the right places to go to, and the chef salade-tomates-oignons-chef-ing mostly young people.

Tossing "and from the ghettos" in there just lands him absurdly right in the middle of the shitty parisian that everyone hates.

You got the demographics right but there are many O'Tacos in Paris, just not much in the Champs-Elysées area.

I've never tried it myself, they look disgusting. I probably would have, if I was younger...

Which is quite ironic, because to locals the Champs Élysées is known to be a hang-out place for banlieusards, a place where companies have flashy flagship stores, and clueless tourists who do not expect either of those things. If there is a place to have O'Tacos restaurants in Paris, the Champs are far from the worst place.

Hardly a surprise because it's cheap street food for the lower classes as french Kebab is which they are really just a variation of, meat, fries and industrial sweet sauce that is. The Champs are not really the kind of place where those classes live. Ghetto food seems a bit strong though, you can easily find them outside the rich neighborhoods of the West which suggests me you might find instructive to get out of some time.

Paf, en plein dans le stéréotype du petit bourgeois du 16e qui bosse sur les champs.

Maybe get out of your place sometimes?

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