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Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by timr on Sunday April 13, 2014 @08:11AM (#7581074)
"You can never get pastries as good as in France for a simple reason: humidity. It influences the cooking process in such a way you can never get the same texture, and your pastry will become soft within hours of cooking because it soaks ambient humidity."

France is a big place. I'm reasonably sure that humidity levels differ between French cities, yet they still make French pastries.

I mean, I get it: you're always going to find some reason to like French pastries better. But "humidity" is a pretty bad reason, since you can actually control it.

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Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by ekianjo on Sunday April 13, 2014 @10:06AM (#7581338)
No, this is precisely the explanation that was given to me by pastries making companies based in Japan. I'm not inventing anything. And France never gets 90% Relative Humidity. Check the data. Japan's humidity is way higher.
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