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  • "The French now realise that fast food is no longer synonymous with "malbouffe" bad food, that you need not eat any old rubbish just because you're in a hurry," said Mr Boutboul.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • "The French now realise that fast food is no longer synonymous with "malbouffe" bad food, that you need not eat any old rubbish just because you're in a hurry," said Mr Boutboul.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The only reason to doubt the purity of Jean-Michel Cohen's intentions as the enemy of "malbouffe" is his connection with another French diet: "Savoir Maigrir avec Jean-Michel Cohen."

    Rich pickings from living off the fat of the land | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Also: la bouffe = food (informal) la malbouffe = bad grub, junkfood

    Expressions 2004

  • Also: la bouffe = food (informal) la malbouffe = bad grub, junkfood

    Gastronomie 2004

  • Also: la bouffe = food (informal) la malbouffe = bad grub, junkfood

    Cuisine 2004

  • For a friend of mine who lives in Burgundy - pretty much the French heartland - MacDo is the symbol of malbouffe, or bad food and bad eating - a major slur here.

    News 2012

  • "The French now realise that fast food is no longer synonymous with "malbouffe" bad food, that you need not eat any old rubbish just because you're in a hurry," said Bernard Boutboul, head of Gira Conseil, a food consultancy.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Henry Samuel 2011

  • For a friend of mine who lives in Burgundy - pretty much the French heartland - MacDo is the symbol of malbouffe, or bad food and bad eating - a major slur here.

    News 2012

  • Mr. Bové, who became a folk hero of the anti-globalization movement in 1999 when he and other protesters dismantled a McDonald’s in the southern French town of Millau, said he doesn’t personally know anybody who eats the food, which he calls la malbouffe, or junk food.

    McDonald’s Takes Paris | Impact Lab 2007

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