In article >,
Bob Terwilliger > wrote:
>Charlotte wrote:
>
>>> Banh mi is what I was thinking, but I don't want to drive for two hours
>>> just to pick up the right kind of bread. It'll be *close* to banh mi,
>>> though.
>>
>> Whaaaaa? What is "the right kind of bread", and I thought you lived in
>> Sacratomato where there is a large Viet population, a number of whom are
>> running Viet or French bakeries.
>
>I live about forty miles north of Sacramento, and all the Vietnamese
>bakeries are on the south side of Sacramento.

Aha. Based on that description, I used to live close to where you do
now (Hwy 20 through town was one of my boundaries for my childhood
be-back-for-dinner wanderings) and, while I seem to recall that
some Viet stuff and definitely Franco-Viet stuff had made it out to the
northeast burbs where my folks live now, I can see a limit to the
expansion and your part of the world is slow to get stuff. And, yeah,
getting to South Area can be a bear. I haven't tried since my
grandmother moved out of Curtis Park in the early eighties, and
development has been crazy since.

>Due to poor highway planning,

*ahem* I happen to know that the highway planners wanted to put some more
roads in Sacramento County during the seventies, but further development
got shot down. It wasn't as much of an issue before development in the
airport corridor and south area really went nuts.

(Not to mention Roseville and north in Placer. My dad told me that I
should not ever drive Hwy 70 again unless I really had to. He
backtracked all the way to I-5 and the Garden Highway for my
grandmother's funeral to avoid it. Back in the seventies, anything
between the Yuba River bridge and downtown Roseville was pretty much wide
open country.)

>there's no "good" way for me to get there; that's why it takes so long. The
>"right" kind of bread for banh mi is made with both rice flour and wheat
>flour, and is a bit lighter and less crusty than baguettes.

Got it.

I'd think a Mexican bolillo or whatever usually gets used for tortas
should be fine as well and I'd be shocked if you couldn't find those up
there. woooeee cultural cross-pollination .

>> Baguettes are fine as far as I can see.
>
>As it turns out, Lin thought the sausage had gone bad, so she threw it away.
>Oh well, I can always make it again.

Boo!

Better luck next time.

Charlotte
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