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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out if curiosity, what bakeries do you buy baguettes from in the dc-area? Especially any that post when bread is coming out of the oven?

Levain Bakery!

[Anonymous]

Your post assumes Americans don't know what to do with foreign food. Do you forget we are a nation of immigrants? Furthermore, we are the fattest nation in the world. When it comes to food, you can safely assume, yeah we got that covered.

....when it comes to generalization and judgment, you've got that covered.

[Anonymous]

"Foreign food"?! It's a loaf of bread! You people are something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm French.

Eat it how you damm well want, OP. There is no baguette police! Did you imagine every French person ate their baguettes in exactly the same way? Ha ha.

Really. What a strange post.

I am pretty sure there are language police in France. Baguette police don't seem like a stretch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love that you included a picture. For the stupid Americans who don’t know what a baguette is, much less what to do with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out if curiosity, what bakeries do you buy baguettes from in the dc-area? Especially any that post when bread is coming out of the oven?

Levain Bakery!

Bread Alley. Delicious.

[Anonymous]

OP, your question reminded me of my grandmother. She insisted on fresh french bread every day. She'd send someone to pick it up at the local bakery before lunch. Lunch would be delayed if the bread was not yet out of the oven at the bakery.

To this day I love my french bread. I buy those 2-packs at Costco. I cut them up when I get home and freeze it in sections. It's easy to pull out a section as needed.

[Anonymous]

I live alone, and freeze the (cut up) baguette the day I buy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I love European snobbery. Americans get accused of not eating baguettes perfectly according to French culture, but if your husband is EU he can insist on bread with his Chinese food and it’s quaint.

Similarly, if I admitted to giving my kids white bread with sugar on it every day while they watched SpongeBob I would get raked over the coals, but somehow if you add “in their native language” it is such a brag you can insert it into a post that isn’t even about TV.

I was just thinking her DH sounds really fat and her kids sound really lazy (cue the PP saying no he’s a model and they are Olympians)

[Anonymous]

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.

Of course! Since as Americans you surely have no idea what to do with it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your post assumes Americans don't know what to do with foreign food. Do you forget we are a nation of immigrants? Furthermore, we are the fattest nation in the world. When it comes to food, you can safely assume, yeah we got that covered.

....when it comes to generalization and judgment, you've got that covered.

I love this PP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I but lots of baguette. Usually, we either eat sandwiches on them, slice them up in eat with a pasta dinner, or toasted with butter and jam for breakfast.

With pasta? Carbs with carbs? Oof.

You think it is shocking to have garlic bread or bread and olive oil with pasta??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm French.

Eat it how you damm well want, OP. There is no baguette police! Did you imagine every French person ate their baguettes in exactly the same way? Ha ha.

Really. What a strange post.

I am pretty sure there are language police in France. Baguette police don't seem like a stretch.

I'm with you. There's a law called the Decret Pain specifically to prevent the sale of inferior baguettes! There are police out there for sure.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-buy-bread-french-way

[Anonymous]

I definitely eat bread and butter, especially sourdough. However, I'm originally from Canada. I usually buy baguettes fresh to make bánh mì or eat it with bò kho.