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L'Oreal and Nestle used to be American companies, with L'Oreal being a common and affordable skin moisturizing cream from the 1990s, while Nestle KitKat being a favorite American candy, so when....... (lemmy.today)

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L’Oreal and Nestle used to be American companies, with L’Oreal being a common and affordable skin moisturizing cream from the 1990s, while Nestle KitKat being a favorite American candy, so when did L’Oreal become a French cosmetics company, and KitKat being a Swiss candybar? Thank you for your attention and interest.

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[–] Sparky@lemmy.today -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what will convince you that just because a name is French, does not make it a French cosmetics company, and that Kitkat has always been associated with American culture and American childhood, not Swiss culture and Swiss childhood memories?

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

what will convince you that just because a name is French, does not make it a French cosmetics company

It's headquartered in Clichy, a suburb of Paris.

Kitkat has always been associated with American culture and American childhood, not Swiss culture and Swiss childhood memories?

KitKat was created by Rowntree's, a British chocolate manufacturer that Nestle acquired in 1988. Hershey had held U.S. distribution rights since 1970.

Most people in the Threadiverse wouldn't have the patience to engage with clearly false AI questions. Intelligent human interaction is always welcome, but if you must use AI to formulate your posts and not conduct the most basic of research to correct your mistakes, perhaps Reddit would be better suited for such content.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.today -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kitkat has always been associated with American culture, not Swiss or British culture. Also, just because a company name is French, does not mean it is a French company with French headquarters.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, just because a company name is French, does not mean it is a French company with French headquarters.

But it is a French company with French headquarters. Why is this so hard for you to understand?

[–] Sparky@lemmy.today -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

L'Oreal was an American company that sold common and affordable skin moisturizing creams, in pharmacy stores like CVS. It was not a French cosmetics company..

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Who told you this?