>France has retained a food and dining culture that is luckily still quite distinct from the work-dominated hectic culture in most other places and I'd say it's

>France has retained a food and dining culture that is luckily still quite distinct from the work-dominated hectic culture in most other places and I'd say it's one reason why obesity rates and other health markers are much better in the country. Most of the south of Europe is the same. Business interests and temporarily-embarrassed-CEOs are somewhat successfully pushing to abolish this culture in favor of the prison-lunch culture. I hope they ultimately fail, but...