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		nitwit005 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: McDonald's is losing its low-income customers That same pattern of the poor eating instant noodles is true in Asia as well. The origin of a number of those products is US food aid. Governments in the 60s and 70s set up facilities to convert the wheat they were getting into a product people would eat.

dyauspitr 7 days ago [–]

Usually in college age kids, that situation quickly changes in married couples and families.

nitwit005 6 days ago | [–]

The sales volumes are too high for the only consumers to be a small age range like that.

If it was a product only university students ate, it'd only be sold near universities.

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