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Actually...Joel Stein makes an interesting point, but it's based on bad facts. Japanese cream puffs aren't American at all. They're technically French! So the puffs don't really tell us all that much about our American selves, or our American culture. Did his mistake bother anyone else besides me? (I just wrote a longer blog post about this: freelancette.com if you're interested...).