• redwattlebird@lemmings.world
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        18 hours ago

        *banh mi

        But yes, so very delicious. So fresh too.

        SUVs won’t work in Vietnam, not when you have Grab and scooters everywhere. It might become a rich person thing to drive around in those awful yank tanks but that’s hardly a market.

        This just sounds like the VN government is just making a nothing deal sound good for Trump. Americans paying tariffs for incoming VN products versus Vietnamese paying nothing for incoming American SUVs? A product that most Vietnamese won’t find useful at all?

        Ugh.

        I want some bread now…

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          18 hours ago

          Oops, wrong spelling!

          But uh, yeah, I agree, Trump got played, SUVs will take off in Vietnam as well as McDonalds did.

          Trump is an actual idiot.

          Not like, ad hom insult idiot.

          He is just actually an idiot.

          He still doesn’t understand what a trade balance even is, or that services/digital goods we export aren’t part of that number.

          He’s a spoiled brat that’s gotten as far as he has by being an abusive narcissist who csn just buy his way out of everything with daddy’s money.

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          18 hours ago

          Literally banh mis and other Vietnamese basically street food, pho, stuff like that, is why McDonalds didn’t take off.

          Vietnam has some truly tasty and cost effective cuisine, and McDonalds was largely only eaten by corpo types just as a flex of how much money they have.

          Its less nutritious, less tasty, and more expensive than what the Vietnamese have been eating for 100s, 1000s of years.

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            3 hours ago

            From what I understand, it’s all pretty cheap too. So the profit margins for McDs were probably thinner.

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              2 hours ago

              Last time I read a breakdown report on it, yeah, it was something in the range of…

              A typical street vendor banh mi has more actual like weight of food in a sandwich than a McD borgor, and the McD borgor is also between 2x to 4x as expensive, depending on exactly where you are in Vietnam.

              Also, lol, the vastly most profitable part of a McD meal is the soda, and then fries.

              Like a drink that costs you $3.00 at McDonalds costs them fractions of a penny.

              And… HFCS soda just has not worked too well in any Asian markets, basically.

              Thats how you end up with like, Diet Cucumber Coca Cola in Japan, lol, a lot of Asia already also has a lot of great drinks, such as boba tea… and just actual tea, etc.