How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
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Origins of attribution could be a New York Times Magazine article by Joan Barthel ("How to Avoid TV Dinners While Watching TV" 7 August 1966, p. 34): "'The French Chef'...the program that can be campier than 'Batman,' farther-out than 'Lost in Space' and more penetrating than 'Meet the Press' as it probes the question: Can a Society be Great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?" Article quoted in for Life: The Biography of Julia Child (Noël Riley Fitch. Doubleday, 1997, p. 308)