Oh The Pain
Today is French Bread Day. So I guess it's as good a time as any to note what a cliché the baguette has become in movies.
I haven't been to France in many years, but I don't remember seeing a lot of French bread. Certainly not all Parisian eat that much bread. Aren't any on Atkins?
By the way, I like baguettes. At a local sandwich shop , there's a choice between baguette and ciabatta and I almost always pick the former. On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of that other French form of bread, the croissant--too flaky.
posted by LAGuy @ 9:30 AM
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My food memory of Paris is buying a hot dog from a street vendor, who dipped it in hot mustard and handed it to me. (What we call "Dijon" mustard, although I suspect they don't unless it's actually from the Dijon region.)
I accompanied it with a lemon soda. (ere in the USA we have many fruit-flavored sodas but they are all much too sweet; the lemon soda was sour, and totally awesome.
You can keep your $70 steak tartare and snails. My $5 lunch was perfect.
Actually the most common Parisian sandwich is the jambon-beurre. It's just a baguette with butter and ham.
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