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Originally Posted by deja vu
I'll start. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the original home of Gibson Guitars.
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Ah ouais ? I didn't know. That's where they're currently packing Pfizer vaccine doses at -70°C / -94°F. I know about that. Lol I saw it in the news lately.
Fender is another famous guitar manufacturer, from California.
But it's true that Gibson may have some kind of more genuine folk sound that I like.
Pop culture with mass appeal and recognition, you're requiring...
Well, local fresh bakery products like croissants and baguettes are worldwide renown, but a lot of that stuff would've come from Vienna centuries ago. Hence the French generic term of
viennoiseries. That said, Paris must be at least as good as Vienna in that kind of things nowadays. My own homemade apple strudel is pretty good, while I'm nothing like a baker.
Otherwise, there are well known fashion brands like Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, Dior and so on.
Of course they're overpriced, nonetheless very pop. Even people who can't actually afford them would stupidly ruin their bank accounts for a dumb Vuitton purse. Right?
Oh, I know. Since we've been hit by that nasty pandemic, the name of Louis Pasteur is turning pop again. At least over here.
That's your freaking biologist whose achievements eventually saved countless lives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
Though he wasn't even a Parisian. He was from Franche-Comté.
Crap, I can't even find anything both pop and recognizable from Paris. Even the Eiffel tower came to us from Dijon, Burgundy where Gustave Eiffel was born and grew up.
It's just an old and giant melting pot over here. I won't bother looking for something both successful and 100% originally Parisian. It probably doesn't exist.