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"It is my opinion that the SUV or, as it is sometimes referred to, Large Engine Vehicle, which does so well in the United States, will be a wonderful addition to the various product lines within Vietnam"

Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114784170652465525

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 144 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vietnam also halted the expansion of McDonald’s because local street food is cheaper and better.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Bahn Mi every day, so fucking good.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 22 hours ago

bahn mi is a great name for a vietnamese joint at a train station

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*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...

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] dalekcaan 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy shit yes, one of the best sandwiches in existence

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 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.