How does the average American eat a fresh baguette from a bakery?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone on DCUM so obsessed with “bakery bread?” I’ve literally never heard this term anywhere outside this forum, but here it’s the only bread anyone will cop to eating.

At least people stopped talking about "crusty bread"

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone on DCUM so obsessed with “bakery bread?” I’ve literally never heard this term anywhere outside this forum, but here it’s the only bread anyone will cop to eating.

Grocery store bread is full of seed oil, sugars and preservatives.

Do we have to have this conversation every week? La Brea bread -- sold in Safeway, Giant, Harris Teeter, Kroger, etc -- is not.

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Anonymous wrote:Also a 30 rack is another term for a case of beer.

Wouldn't it be 24?

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Anonymous wrote:Turned into a cheeseburger, covered in bacon, smothered with cheese sauce and then deep fried. Then consumed by the American while wrapped in an American flag while shooting into the air from the back of the pickup while blaring country music. Washed down with a 30 rack.

I guess you think you are clever or funny.

I think you are insulting many of us.

Many Americans are worthy of criticism. Look at the GOP nominee for POTUS, FFS.

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Anonymous wrote:My 10 year old will eat a 1/2 of a baguette before we even get home from the store.

That's why we always buy two.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone on DCUM so obsessed with “bakery bread?” I’ve literally never heard this term anywhere outside this forum, but here it’s the only bread anyone will cop to eating.

At least people stopped talking about "crusty bread"

Right? everyone's soup or stew needed a crusty bread.
No thanks, I like to dip wonder bread into mine. I like a doughy, rare-baked loaf of just middle bread. No crust.

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Anonymous wrote:I just ride away with it in my bike basket or clutched under my arm and then throw it away when I get home.

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Anonymous wrote:My EU DH eats bread with every meal (yes, even with tacos, Chinese food, etc.) Our kids eat bread and chocolate, or bread and nutella, as a snack after school while watching cartoons in their native language. Whatever they don't use up becomes toast the next morning.

Yes, it's tricky buying fresh bread every day in the US but we have a standing order at the local bakery and we've got a system down for buying bread every day. And, in a pinch, Whole Foods has good enough bakery bread.

My greatest generation grandparents ate bread with every meal. But it was just sliced white bread on a plate. It’s just an old fashioned habit.

Mine always, always had rolls and butter at dinnertime, no matter what was being served for dinner. You always put the rolls in a bread basket with a cloth (like a cloth napkin) around them.

Homemade rolls?

Started out as homemade, but as they got older and after they moved to a 55+ community from a rural area, it was store-bought from the grocery store down the street.

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I would venture the majority of American women grab one to slice and serve with soft butter as a side with supper.

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Anonymous wrote:Turned into a cheeseburger, covered in bacon, smothered with cheese sauce and then deep fried. Then consumed by the American while wrapped in an American flag while shooting into the air from the back of the pickup while blaring country music. Washed down with a 30 rack.

I guess you think you are clever or funny.

I think you are insulting many of us.

I’m American and thought it was funny.

Ditto

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I’ll put chicken salad on it.

Chicken salad on toasted baguette is divine.

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slice it and eat it

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My daughter and I occasionally treat ourselves to sandwiches with baguette, butter and good Brie. Yum. Sometimes I'll make asparagus with hollandaise on the side. No wonder I'm gaining weight.

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Our chef makes us fresh bread 2-3x a week. It's amazing. I have tried a *lot* of "higher end" bakeries around here and they all do not compare to European ones. Even in Serbia I had better tasting bread from a bakery than anywhere in MD/VA/DC

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Ah yes, as I ducked the dulcet arrows of outrageous and exclusive fortune, the sharp Serbian air nipping at the edges of my consciousness, my thoughts turned, once again, to the true distinction with a difference: the crawling rat-ends of these "higher end" bakeries around here, juxtaposed fresh agains the crusty loaves of my blessed, pure, and fully European homeland.

Our chef is paid to agree.