Romy
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233 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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So it's definitely a big part of, especially children's lives, because there's this thing of you're going to grow taller if you eat yogurt and all of that.
I didn't really think about this at the time when I first showed up to the Lycée, but one of the reasons this question was coming from this place is just that French people are extraordinarily precious about their dairy products. Oh, right. They like cheese. And just food in general. They take the quality and craft of food far more seriously than we do.
It felt unintuitive for me as a kid who grew up on easy cheese and country crock. I know you don't like yogurt, But if you've ever had like a fancy cheese or a traditional French butter and then gone back to like the mass-produced American versions.
And they just eat way more of it than we do too. Like the average French person eats something like 60 pounds of cheese and 45 pounds of yogurt every year. Wait, sorry, what?
But back at the school, our little yogurt investigation squad walked into the cafeteria. Classic high school lunchroom with those long tables with the little attached stools, food serving stations in the back. The cafeteria is empty at this point, except for two adults who were seated at this one table. Surprise table.
We were here to talk to the head of the cafeteria about La Fermiere. He was one of the people responsible for stocking this specific yogurt in the lunchroom. He was another adult, like the teacher, who seemed enchanted by this brand. And so Romy, one of the students, asks... So how popular is this yogurt?
Mark didn't have much of an answer here beyond what the company was already saying on its website. That clay, sometimes they'll say terracotta or ceramic, basically the same thing. But saying it's a premium material with all kinds of reusable. and sustainability benefits. It's really, you can do a lot of things with a clay pot. And honestly, we're all just kind of sitting there and nodding along.
Romy and Anouk, I wouldn't say they're like actively engaged at this point. We're still inside the school building. Their teacher's still hovering close by. They're a little reserved. But after the cafeteria, the next stop on our investigation list was just the local cafe next to the school, a spot with what I thought was a slightly over-the-top French name.
Okay, so we're just outside of school right now, and we're going to go in a cafe called Chez les Frenchies, which is right next to the school, literally next door.
How often do you come here?
It smells like France in here.
PJ, I should tell you something. I know you have teenagers in your life. I don't really like to reveal a prejudice of mine. Like high school students kind of make me nervous.
Yeah, like I have Gen Z friends. I've had Gen Z colleagues. But when you start getting to the younger parts of the generation or like... whatever we're calling the next generation, Gen Alpha. I don't know. I don't know how to hang. I don't know the lingo.
Yeah. And they don't do either. The thing that you're describing is the thing that made me kind of nervous walking into a high school with somewhat aloof high school kids. I understand.
And I'm feeling that way as we talk to the owner of this cafe, learning once again that adults love this yogurt, the pots are cute, they're reusable. But as the hour winds by, I can slowly feel Romi and Anouk warming to the assignment a little bit. Or maybe it's just because we're starting to get to the point where they might get to miss their next class and that's like exciting for them.
You guys owe me for letting you miss math class.
Ooh, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
So we're making small talk about class. David, the teacher, has to duck out to go teach his next class. And so for the first time, Shruti and I get a moment alone with these students. Which means I finally get to ask them what they really think about this investigation we're on.
Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it.
Chapter three, the student's point of view. So you have this conversation. We sit down in the school library and I just asked them to tell me about that first class when their teacher David pitched this yogurt question to them. Can you just briefly in a few sentences describe sort of what that class looked like on that day?
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