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mday - June 26, 2003 - 9:33 AM - ℓ

I have found Zingermans baguettes to be comparable to those I had in France. I love baguettes.

srah - June 26, 2003 - 9:41 AM - ℓ

They're closer than, say, Meijers French Bread... but they still ain't no baguette. If anything, Zingerman's baguettes are too crusty.

jday - June 26, 2003 - 9:47 AM - ℓ

Matt *likes* the crunchy part- I'm a fan of the mushy insides, personally.

srah - June 26, 2003 - 9:50 AM - ℓ

I like it crusty but not crumbly - enough to get a bit of a crunch on the outside, but not to get crumbs all down my front the whole time I'm eating it.

katie - June 26, 2003 - 9:52 AM - ℓ

Forget about baguettes. I want to know why you can't get a decent pain au chocolat or croissant here. Dunkin Donuts does NOT know what a croissant is.

mday - June 26, 2003 - 11:04 AM - ℓ

Thats why I wear a bib when I eat them srah!!

Mer - June 26, 2003 - 11:22 AM - ℓ

Whatever I pick up at Whole Foods is adequate... though not *right*, as you observe.

What I'm peeved about is that you can't get anything close to a strawberry tart or a torsade or ANYTHING like a French pastry in this city... and if you can find them anywhere outside of New Orleans, I'd be shocked... and in New Orleans, they cost about 6 times as much as they do in France.

I had a strawberry tart every day in France that cost about $.75 at the most expensive, and here you couldn't get that for under $5.

krista. - June 26, 2003 - 12:50 PM - ℓ

My big complaint is with scones--in Ireland and the UK, they're slightly sweetened biscuits with or without exciting fruit pieces in them; here, I just don't understand them. The scones they sell around here are fine and dandy as far as starchy desserts go, but they are most emphatically not scones in the traditional sense. Meh!

srah - June 26, 2003 - 1:17 PM - ℓ

Now I'm craving clotted cream. Incredibly disgusting-sounding, but soooo gooood.

katie - June 26, 2003 - 2:05 PM - ℓ

Mmmm....scoooooooooooooones.

Justin - June 26, 2003 - 11:58 PM - ℓ

Actually, I've had some pretty good baguettes in New Orleans.

Of course, I've never been to France, so I don't have any idea what I'm talking about.

By the way, your contact French talk makes me feel incredibly uneducated. I figured if I watched Amelie enough, I'd start to pick up on it, but alas, I can't seem to grasp the language.

I do, however, know what the words "moulin" and "rouge" mean.

srah - June 27, 2003 - 7:26 AM - ℓ

Well, French is my one thing. It's what I do.

(It's what I live for... to help poor unfortunate merfolk - like yourself! Poor souls with nowhere else to turn to... I have this disease where I can't say "It's what I do" without turning into Ursula from The Little Mermaid)

mday - June 27, 2003 - 7:47 AM - ℓ

I need to apologize ahead of time as this is off subject. Not sure what the "rules of engagement" are on a blog, but anyways...

I just wanted to announce that it is official. My wife, jday, is addicted to EBAY. 'Nuff said.

mday - June 27, 2003 - 7:59 AM - ℓ

Seeing that we are on the topic of France. I have a question and a theory for the french expert (thats you srah!). Is it just me, or do the French have a general disdain for Americans? Well, I guess... Who can blame them, we are pretty much the most arrogant people on the planet. Actually, I have a theory on why they dont like us.

Here it is. See, France gave America the croissant. But America gave France...

the croissanwich.

I cant actually take credit for this paradigm shifting theory, as it came from the great philosopher Joseph R. Bollinger from the Ann Arbor Bollingers (not at all related to the former president of the UoM).

srah - June 27, 2003 - 8:34 AM - ℓ

Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules! Ha! If we did have rules, Cheryl wouldn't follow them anyway.

And I don't think the French hate American people, they hate America's arrogance and what America represents to them. Which, of course, fits with your theory, because America represents things like the croissanwich.

Jez - June 27, 2003 - 9:22 AM - ℓ

Could I just point out that the French have a general disdain for anyone and anything that isn't French?

jday - June 27, 2003 - 10:20 AM - ℓ

I am NOT addicted to ebay! I'm addicted to WINNING! (btw, we're still winning on our latest bid....)

jday - June 27, 2003 - 10:26 AM - ℓ

PS- you're such a sheesheefoufou. Zingerman's fanatic (is it appropriate that I'm having a discussion on srah's blog with my husband? oh, well!) You also neglected to mention that Joe is also a former Brit (of Albion, not Britain- sorry, Jez)

srah - June 27, 2003 - 10:32 AM - ℓ

I know the name, but not the person.

Justin - June 27, 2003 - 1:52 PM - ℓ

I have a disdain for Americans as well. I'm either French or very cynical.

Justin - June 27, 2003 - 1:53 PM - ℓ

Not all Americans, mind you. Just the stupid ones. I'm American after all, and I'm rather fond of myself.

srah - June 27, 2003 - 1:58 PM - ℓ

I feel the same way. I hate Americans... except the ones I like.

22 comments! I am the master!

katie - June 27, 2003 - 5:36 PM - ℓ

I always thought you were Ursula...

And you're not allowed to count the comments made by yourself. heh. :)

srah - June 27, 2003 - 9:09 PM - ℓ

If I didn't count my own comments, I'd have no comments to count.