Originally Posted by R Leo

If you'd been observant, you'd have seen that the disinterest isn't confined to Americans, French are pretty much that way about anything that isn't French. And that's OK with me since you can go anywhere in the country and even the smallest village will have two or three boulangerie with croissants and baguettes fresh from the oven at 6:30am.

I say: "Let them be French!"