Fascinating look at American food section of gourmet grocery store in France - but there's little available for people who eat healthily

A high-end Paris market shop owned by luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH has an American nutrient conception consisting of items for illustration marshmallow dispersed and six varieties of microwave popcorn.

La Grande Épicerie, located about a mile from Napoleon Bonaparte's last resting place, is known for trading world foods.

One French-speaking shopper spotted snagging a packet of Reese's dipped pretzels from nan American aisle told Sports Illustrated: 'It's a operation of saccharine and salty, and Americans emotion saccharine and salty.'

Other American foods featured nan shop see maize syrup, hot-dog-style jarred sausages, and boxed mac-n-cheese.

La Grande Épicerie has 2 Paris locations, connected Rue de Sèvres and Rue de Passy.

The first outpost opened successful 1923 connected nan crushed level of what is now LVMH's French headquarters.

The store, designed by Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, was 1 of nan first places wherever shoppers could by groceries each twelvemonth round.

La Grande Épicerie yet opened pastry shops successful its shop successful 1934 and became a spot wherever shoppers could gain coupons successful speech for aged clothes, according to Gault & Millau.

Today, its Rue de Sèvres location offers astir 30,000 products, immoderate of which are disposable exclusively astatine nan shop aliases made connected site.

Shoppers astatine nan Rue de Sèvres shop tin besides sojourn its vino cellar, nan Le Balthazar vino bar, and nan La Table restaurant.

'The caller Grande Épicerie de Paris, opened successful 2013, is nan astir eager nutrient hallway conception successful Europe,' LVMH CEO Patrice Wagner said aft its opening.

'The savoir-faire of our artisans, our architects and nan artists chosen for this task allowed america to move this desire to go a unmissable gastronomic destination into a reality.'

 Some U.S. visitors weren't impressed by nan American-themed items connected offer.

'I deliberation it's benignant of strange. I don't wish I had immoderate "hot-dog sausages" successful a jar,'  tourer Katie Laurino told Sports Illustrated.

The U.K. conception features shortbread, various teas, and beef jerky - which worker Cécile Irtelli called 'very popular.' 

'We person French group who travel from each complete France,' said Irtelli, who helps curate nan U.K. selection. 'You can't find these products elsewhere.' 

Other items earning rave reviews see a goat food from Vermont.

'I was truthful happy to find an American merchandise that was artisanal,' Christy Shields, an subordinate professor of anthropology astatine nan American University of Paris who studies food, told Sports Illustrated.

On societal media, immoderate person gushed astir their experiences astatine La Grande Épicerie.

A shopper from France wrote successful French: 'My life project: to do each my nutrient shopping astatine nan Grande Épicerie, and my shopping astatine nan Bon Marché. Every day.'