Y’all need to educate yourselves .
For a while, it seemed that kale's meteoric rise to cruciferous stardom was unstoppable.
That all came crashing down a few days ago, when The New York Times broke news that French people don't know or care about kale.
...and told us about the world's first international kalevangelist.
At the same time, a Burger King executive (explaining the launch of BK's new, less-fatty french fries) launched a full-out assault on kale's reputation.
Fries: Burger King / Kale: Shutterstock
"You live in Manhattan and might be having a kale smoothie on your way to work this morning," said Eric Hirschhorn, chief marketing officer for Burger King, the nation's No. 3 hamburger chain after McDonald's and Wendy's. "But a lot of people don't even know what kale is, and if they do, they don't want to eat it. You have to give people what they want."
Via nytimes.com
