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ARTICLE · 01 MAY 2020

Google Le Pew: Stinky French Cheese

Imagine that one person provides the vast majority of your food for twenty years. For free.

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Who wants to screw up a win-win-win arrangement?

Unsurprisingly, European regulators.

Imagine that one person provides the vast majority of your food for twenty years. For free.

And now imagine that this person profits from this act because her work with you and many others allow her to be recognized as the greatest food distributor. Sounds like a good deal for both, right?

If you are French, you might say, "I resent the fact that my food provider, despite giving me free food for decades, also benefits. How do I grab her benefits? I know, let's charge her for the right to give me free food!"

Zut alors.

My parents would have called this "biting the hand that feeds you."

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