Weird things can happen to American foods that travel to France. The case in two points? Bagels and McDonald's.
It's shockingly totally possible to find a good New York-style bagel in Paris -- but they don't serve them the way they do in America, with cream cheese and lox. Instead, they use them as the containers for big sandwiches full of cold cuts and cheese, sometimes pressed like a panini. And McDonald's is wildly popular in France, but the restaurants are significantly fancier there than they are in America.
This bizarre skew make it seem almost logical that when McDonald's France wanted to follow its smash hit McBaguette with a new limited-time offering, it would try putting a burger on a bagel. The results of that madcap experiment are visible on the French McDonald's website and available in McDonald's throughout France right now. Here's a screenshot of the former:
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