What France Thinks Americans Eat

I've decided to set myself a goal of writing at least two posts a week here, and I'm writing it here so that maybe knowing that people are expecting something will make me live up to it or something.  So, expect more stuff here, probably one post about the culture/country and something about the language. Or whatever happens to cross my mind..

At various places around Montpellier (and probably the rest of France), there are little hole-in-the-wall (literally) places called "snacks" which serve stuff that is cheap and easy to eat on the go.  Usually, this entails food items stuffed into the all important staple of French cuisine, the baguette.  One particular sandwich item is the "American."

Basically, what this is is a ground meat patty and fries in a baguette- pretty much what French people would consider an average american diet (it also usually comes in a meal-deal type thing with a can of coke.)  It's basically the same makeup of most things one could could order at McDonald's, minus about half the mass, as well as a toy.  It's pretty weird to attribute these ingredients to only the United States though- A fried ground beef patty is a common thing to serve in Japan (hamubagu), and fries- or chips if you prefer- are pretty much all over Europe too.  Case in point: the Belge Sandwich,

At a spot I was able to find right next to the school, a sandwich under this name is served.  It's like the American, but apparently the diet in Belgium doesn't include meat, so that gets thrown out; leaving only a mass of fries, some greenery, and plenty of Mayo slathered around.  I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's like saying "come to Belgium, Sean.  We have fries,"  Yeah, probably gonna end up going there.

But this makes me wonder one more thing... what would the French put in a "French Sandwich?"

Oh yeah... they call it a "Baguette."